An inexpensive and easy way to help children in other countries is to pack a shoebox with simple items, and donate the shoebox to Operation Christmas Child which has 3,000 drop-off locations across the country. It’s a fun way to help others, get your kids involved, and even see where your box travels. Click here to learn how to pack a box, and learn what you can include in a box, including some coupon freebies!
Operation Christmas Child is the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind. Since 1993, the project has hand-delivered more than 86 million shoe box gifts to needy children in more than 130 countries. Samaritan’s Purse uses tracking technology that allows donors to “follow your box” to the destination country where it will be hand-delivered to a child in need. By clicking on “Follow Your Box” at www.samaritanspurse.org/occ, families can register their boxes and find out where in the world their boxes brought joy to children.
National Collection Week is November 14 – 21, 2011 when about 3,000 drop-off locations will open their doors to collect shoe box gifts. The international goal for 2011 is 8.5 million shoe box gifts; our U.S. goal is 5.8 million gifts. (We have several countries that pack and send gifts to the developing world.)
Learn more about Operation Christmas Child here: (www.samaritanspurse.org/occ)