Posted by Lynda Mayes on Jan 27, 2014

For those of you who so generously donated to the Shoebox effort around Christmas last year you might be interested in where your gift ended up.

·         A total of 664,064 boxes were collected in Canada.

·         Total collected in Ontario 257,332.

·         In the Durham region 10,000+ boxes were collected.

·         Bowmanville alone contributed 2,805 (800 more than the previous year).  Our
          club donated 37.

·         Most of the boxes from Ontario were airlifted to the Americas and some went to
          the Ivory Coast and Senegal.

·         There was a special airlift of 65,000 boxes to a refugee camp in Northern Iraq.
 

I’m sure there are some very happy children enjoying the contents of these Shoeboxes so thank you again from the International Committee.