Monday 24 November 2014

First Romsey - Shoeboxes for operation Christmas Child

All Scouts Promise "To help other people"
 
This Christmas 1st Romsey Scouts have taken this ideal literally and have prepared & donated gift boxes to be distributed as part of the Operation Christmas Child programme run by the International Relief charity Samaritan's Purse .
A speaker came to address the troop, and described a bit about the organization, and how some very simple things we take for granted can make a really big difference to those less fortunate. It was also interesting to hear some detail of the logistics of how the boxes get from the UK to where they are going. After this Scouts brought various gift items
along to their meeting, and then spent an evening packing and wrapping the boxes. Although we don't yet know where the boxes will end up, we hope to find out eventually, as all boxes are tracked as they are delivered.






 
The intention is also that taking part will count towards part of the promise badge.The picture shows Scouts from 1st Romsey Troop, with the boxes they have prepared, just before they were taken to a collection point.


Mike Page Jones

1st Romsey

1 comment:

Mike at 1ROM said...

We have now been told where our boxes went - Zambia - the official 'thank you' link about it is here

https://email.samaritans-purse.org.uk/emailviewonwebpage.aspx?erid=3009820&trid=805f6231-6961-42cd-9c19-fbbf66d0dab7

Well done to all.