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.