Houston Kids Make Impact on Needy Children Overseas

Houston Kids Are Joining the Effort to Help Millions of Needy Children Worldwide by Filling the Empty Boxes from Their New, Back-to-School Shoes.
By: Samaritan's Purse
 
July 29, 2010 - PRLog -- HOUSTON, Texas, July 29, 2010—School will be back in session soon, but many Houston kids already have homework—as they learn a lesson in giving.  Through Operation Christmas Child, the world’s largest Christmas project, kids kick-off the school year learning about the impact of giving to children in need.  By adding a few extra items to their back-to-¬school shopping lists and saving the boxes from their newly purchased shoes, kids are joining the effort to help some 8 million hurting children in more than 100 countries worldwide.  

Operation Christmas Child, a project of international relief and evangelism organization Samaritan’s Purse, headed by Franklin Graham, encourages volunteers to fill simple shoe box gifts with toys, necessity items, school supplies, candy and often hand-written notes of encouragement.  The gifts are then hand-delivered to children worldwide who are suffering because of natural disaster, disease, war, terrorism, famine and poverty.

“With all the sales on back to school items, this is the perfect time to start buying items for a shoe box,” said Mark Cooper, Regional Director of Operation Christmas Child for Texas and Louisiana.  “It’s such an incredible blessing to be involved in a project that lets kids who are suffering in other parts of the world know that someone really cares about them.”

For many of these children, the shoe box gift will be the first gift they have ever received, letting them know they are loved and not forgotten.

Why now—months before the holiday season?
Operation Christmas Child is not limited to just a few weeks a year.  It is a year-round project, requiring months of organization and preparation to reach millions of kids around the world.  Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has distributed shoe box gifts to more than 69 million hurting children in some 130 countries.  

HOW CAN I HELP NEEDY KIDS WORLDWIDE?  It’s Simple!

   PREPARE—Help enlist families, churches, scout troops, community groups and businesses to take part in creating shoe box gifts for needy children in more than 100 countries.
 
   PACK—Fill shoe boxes with school supplies, toys, necessity items, hard candy and a letter of encouragement.  
Step-by-step shoe box packing instructions are available at www.samaritanspurse.org.
 
   PROCESS—Join thousands of Operation Christmas Child volunteers this fall at one of hundreds of collection sites and Processing Centers in the United States to prepare millions of shoe box gifts for delivery to underprivileged kids on six continents.

For more information on how to participate in Operation Christmas Child, call 817-595-2230 or visit www.samaritanspurse.org.  National Collection Week is Nov. 15-22, 2010; however, shoe box gifts are collected all year.

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A project of internation relief organization Samaritan's Purse, Operation Christmas Child will hand-deliver some 8 million shoe box gifts to hurting children in more than 100 countries this year. It is literally the world's largest Christmas project.
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