Morning Thought 1
Monday 27th Dec 2021
Good morning. I think I can say that
this year it is the latest that we have sent our shoeboxes to Romania. For
various reasons beyond our control we shipped this December consignment (which
includes the Christmas shoeboxes) a week later than usual and then the Romanian
haulier had technical problems so the pallets with the Shoeboxes on were not
collected from St Malo until a couple of days later than we had expected and
planned.
This in turn affected their arrival
time in Romania. The Romanian social workers knew that once the shoeboxes
arrived they were going to have to focus really hard on getting all the
shoeboxes distributed in the last week before Christmas.
I cannot tell you how pleased I was to hear the
lorry arrived safely for the unloading on Monday 20th December. Yes we really
had cut it a bit fine and it meant the social workers had a busy few days
distributing the childrens boxes before schools closed on December 23 as well
as arranging meetings to give the pensioners their packages.
Let me share this message
“Thank you people of Jersey. Again you have been so
kind in what you have given. To organize and give out the shoeboxes is hard
work for us here in Romania and I and my helpers go home tired but happy.
Sometimes I may ask if it is worth the effort but then I see the smiles on the
kids faces especially the children in the orphanages and I see the tears and
joy on the pensioner faces and I know it is worthy of the effort. You have
brought joy to people in Romania. God bless you this Christmas time”.