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| Operation Christmas Child 2006 |
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In November 2006 we collected over 950 boxes - all destined to be Christmas gifts for disadvantaged children in Eastern Europe, Russia and Africa thanks to Operation Christmas Child (run by the Christian charity Samaritan's Purse).
See an amazing slideshow of Russian children opening their shoeboxes, in photos taken by humanitarian photographer David Lund (photos copyright David Lund). Scroll down for some of these photos. |
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Organiser Sally Tweddle at Holy Trinity Ripon said:
"A
huge thank you to everyone who helped with the Christmas Shoebox campaign this year - from everyone who packed a box and lovingly wrapped it to those who kindly helped one cold November morning to pack another 70 boxes from scratch.
"Big thanks go to Sylvia Grist and her daughter Helen Mackenzie. Sylvia has spent all year making and collecting items for shoeboxes and had enough to fill these 70 boxes.
"Thanks also to those who helped load 2 vans on 22nd November with almost 1,000 boxes! We collected shoeboxes from our congregation, local schools (including both secondary schools for the first time this year).
"We also got a very generous 64 boxes from a small church in Oswaldkirk (near Ampleforth) – St Oswald's - where a lady organises boxes and donations every year and we meet up in Tesco's car park in Thirsk every November so she can give them to us!"
Click here to read about our collection in 2005.
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| Since 1990, Operation Christmas Child has brought the joy of Christmas to more than 38 million boys and girls in hospitals, orphanages, refugee camps, homeless shelters, and impoverished neighbourhoods. Under the scheme, caring members of the public send Christmas gifts, packaged in a wrapped shoebox, to children overseas who otherwise would receive nothing for Christmas (in fact, many of them have never had a present of any kind at any point in their lives). |
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Where do the shoeboxes go?
2005 figures:
| Country |
Number |
% |
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| Romania |
| Belarus |
| Serbia |
| Bosnia |
| Ukraine - Crimea |
| Russia |
| Hungary |
| Armenia |
| Croatia |
| Indonesia |
| Azerbaijan |
| Kyrgyzstan |
| Mozambique |
| Kosova |
| Ukraine - Odessa |
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| 324,111 |
| 187,782 |
| 185,336 |
| 68,856 |
| 56,629 |
| 54,101 |
| 41,863 |
| 40,238 |
| 35,874 |
| 35,763 |
| 35,067 |
| 30,436 |
| 22,009 |
| 13,170 |
| 10,802 |
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| 28 |
| 16 |
| 16 |
| 6 |
| 5 |
| 5 |
| 4 |
| 4 |
| 3 |
| 3 |
| 3 |
| 3 |
| 2 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
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| Total |
1,142,037 |
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