TFTW
• Thought for the Week:
•“Yesterday is not ours
to recover, but today is
ours to win or lose”
think and silently reflect; How many
different ways can you think of WHAT –
WHY – WHEN – WHERE we have to
maintain a positive attitude?
Good Morning
Shoebox Appeal 2015
“Love in a box”
• With 600 boxes, we are one of the biggest
collection points in the North East of England.
• The delivery drivers told us most schools send
on average 50-100 boxes.
• 600 children received the gift of joy, hope and
love thanks to your efforts last year.
Where do our shoeboxes go?
• In 2014, we sent just under 600 boxes to
Operation Christmas Child.
• They were on a transport in December to
ROMANIA.
• They were distributed in orphanages,
hospitals and in tiny rural villages, almost
entirely cut off from the outside world.
How do shoeboxes affect lives?
• Give children hope and a sense of pride
• Improve children’s basic hygiene by providing
simple items like toothbrushes
• In some countries, give children access to
education; they are often not allowed to go to
school without providing their own paper and
pens
• Shoebox distributions are used to offer health
education, parenting advice, access to charity
organisations that would otherwise not be
available in tiny remote villages
What’s new this
year?
So what’s actually happening?
• Nearly 12 million Syrians have fled the
violence; over half are children (this is over
half of the entire Syrian population)
• 4 million of these have fled from Syria and the
others are still in the country
• Children in refugee camps are suffering from
malnutrition, disease, exploitation and
trafficking. Around 6 million Syrian children
have no access to education or health care.
• There have been devastating accounts of
desperate families trying to flee to Europe and
becoming separated, injured or even killed.
• Many of the refugees are highly educated,
qualified professionals; they don’t want our
money, our jobs or our houses. They just want
their children to be safe.
This isn’t political.
It isn’t about religion.
It isn’t about our rights or our money.
It isn’t about terrorism.
It’s about being human.
It’s about children suffering.
What’s it got to do with shoeboxes?
•The refugee
crisis
SOMETHING PRACTICAL
Eg toothbrush, toothpaste,
flannel, soap, hairbrush,
comb, bobbles, tissues
No liquids eg shower gel
SOMETHING TO WEAR
Hat, scarf, gloves, baseball
cap, sunhat, sunglasses,
socks
No other clothing eg tshirts
SOMETHING FOR SCHOOL
Paper, pens, pencils,
colours, rubber,
sharpener, pencil case,
ruler...
SOMETHING TO PLAY WITH
Eg cars, game, jigsaw,
colouring/ puzzle book,
skipping rope, ball, frisbee...
Nothing war-themed, nothing
that needs batteries, nothing
fragile. No playing cards.
SOMETHING TO EAT
Sweets with a sell-by date
of at least March 2015
No chocolate, no other
food
SOMETHING TO LOVE
Teddy Bear or doll
In every box please, even for
teenagers! Everyone deserves to
own a teddy bear once in their
lives!
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Breakables (marbles, mirrors)
Liquids (shower gel, liquid soap, bubbles)
Aerosols
Baby products (boxes start aged 2+)
Clothes (other than hats, scarves, gloves, socks)
No balance in the box (eg just toys, just school stuff,
toothpaste with no toothbrush)
• Poor quality wrapping/ boxes wrapped closed
• “Confused” boxes: eg pink hat and gloves for a 2 year
old, with a Maths set and a difficult jigsaw!
• Goods that have obviously been used, in some cases
even damaged. Goods should be new or as good as!
Does it have to cost the earth? No!
• Example box for 5-9 year old:
• Toothbrush (5 for £1 in Poundland) and toothpaste (25p Tesco)
• Soap (29p Home Bargains) and flannel (5 for £1 Poundland)
• Hat, scarf and gloves set (£1 Poundland)
• Pencil crayons (25p Tesco)
• Colouring book and dot to dot book (set of 4 £1 Poundland)
• Paint by numbers set (99p Poundstretcher)
• Barbie style doll (£1 Poundland)
• McDonalds Happy Meal Smurf toy (free)
• Selection of small wrapped sweets (50p Home Bargains)
• Total cost: £5.18
• Each House has a supply of flat-packed “Go
Boxes”.
• We no longer have to wrap boxes! It takes
seconds to fold one together.
• Each House has 100 boxes... Can you fill them?
WHAT
HAPPENS
NOW?
• Get a shoebox and assemble it
• Decide which age group/ gender; plan; shop
• Pack box with appropriate gifts
• Put official label on box and tick the right age group
• All boxes to be handed in to your PDL
• Boxes to be checked by prefects/ junior prefects
• Prefects or Junior Prefects to deliver completed boxes to
Victory office any morning during registration ONLY.
Deadline for completed boxes: Fri 28th November 2014