St Cuthbert’s busy packing and wrapping shoeboxes

St Cuthbert’s busy packing and wrapping shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child 2014

Pupils from St Cuthbert’s have been busy packing and wrapping shoeboxes with all sorts of goodies so that children and young people in deprived regions of the world will have the joy of opening presents this Christmas and knowing that someone has thought about them.

The school donated 65 shoeboxes which will be delivered to children from the age of two to fourteen.

They were collected by Carol Hartley on behalf of The Samaritan’s Purse, who co-ordinate the appeal and deliver the shoeboxes to children in countries as far afield as Kyrgistan in Eastern Asia.

Pupils received guidance about what sort of items to include in the shoe boxes, including games, puzzles, crayons, toiletries and sweets and learnt that this year, the shoe boxes they have filled, will be opened by children in Belarus, who are still suffering so much from the after effects of the Chernobyl disaster.