Mustard Seed Jersey wants to thank everyone concerned for their support and contributions to our Christmas Shoebox appeal. The final total is 2,500 Christmas shoeboxes for children and pensioners in Romania, these are all now loaded onto our trailer and left Jersey on December 1st.

 

As well as shoeboxes from Jersey there were a small number of shoeboxes from Sark.

 

Once again the most popular age group is the 6-11 group with almost 1100 boxes in that category. There are well over 600 Christmas shoeboxes for pensioners, making it the 2nd most popular category. The least popular age range was the 11+ group.

 

There was a big increase in the number of sponsors packing a personalised shoebox for the pensioner or family or young person they sponsor.

 

It was noticed that in general the over-all standard of the boxes was excellent, with many donors clearly packing with love and thought. It is our aim is that each box will bring as much pleasure as possible and also will be of practical help to the recipient. So we believe there will be 1900 happy children and young people and 600 happy pensioners as a result of people’s generosity and compassion.

 

A small team from Jersey will travel to Romania to be involved in the distribution and to report to the donors.

 

A total of £3400 was donated towards transport costs and to buy sweets for children and food for pensioners. Out of the £2 transport money requested with each shoebox, half is spent on purchasing food to give to pensioners receiving shoeboxes or sweets for the children. Approximately 25% of the shoeboxes came with no money, which inevitably has reduced the amount of money available to purchase sweets for children and food for pensioners.

 

In addition an additional £1000 was received specifically allocated to purchase food for needy Romanian families, £500 allocated for the project to build a home for needy pensioners and a further £500 to be used where most needed.

 

To each and every person who donated or assisted in any way a huge THANK YOU.

 

 

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