As Christmas fast approaches I would like to urge everyone to help me in Operation Christmas Child.

Operation Christmas Child is the world’s largest Christmas project- devoted to spreading love, joy and smiles to children in parts of the world who really need them.

In the UK alone last year over 1.2 Million Shoe boxes packed full of gifts and goodies were wrapped , packed and sent to children in disadvantaged situations by children and adults in the UK.  A £12 donation would fund a shoebox packed with gifts and goodies.

What operation Christmas child boils down to is one gift from one individual to another. So this Christmas , share in the power of a simple gift – reminding a child in need they are not forgotten.

The boxes you fill will be going directly to Belarus , specifically to Minsk for distribution to street children, children in orphanages and others from very poor families. Some boxes will also go to an area of Vilejka which is about 80k north of Minsk,  a very rural area where many children live in extremely bad conditions.

To give sufficient time to buy the gifts and fill the pack the boxes, the deadline for donation is 18 November, as the van has been arranged to pick up our shoe boxes full of gifts from the Edinburgh office on 24 November.

For further information and to watch a video on Operation Christmas Child please visit the below website:

http://www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk/?q=pages/what-occ