December 1st, 2014

A group of students from the Students Without Borders club at Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School (WODSS) volunteered their time to help with Operation Christmas Child.

Operation Christmas Child, a holiday season giving program run by Samaritan’s Purse – Canada, allows individuals and groups to help bring joy and hope to children in desperate situations around the world, through gift-filled shoeboxes. It is one way to remind children suffering through war, poverty, famine, disease and disaster that they are loved and not forgotten. Each shoebox contains school supplies, hygiene items, toys and other gifts which can be customized based on the gender and age of the child each person wishes to supply for.

During the initiative’s National Collection Week, the WODSS group went to the Waterloo Region Collection Centre to help sort and pack hundreds of shoeboxes. All their shoeboxes will go to children in Iraq.

The holiday season is a time to give and the WODSS staff and students are kicking it off right – thanks Crusaders!

 

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Students Without Borders from WODSS at Operation Christmas Child packing centre.

 

A map from Operation Christmas Child of where the shoeboxes will be going this season.

A map from Operation Christmas Child of where the shoeboxes will be going this season.