Balclutha pupils create Christmas boxes for children in developing nations

• Published date: 07 November 2021

Every year the school's student council tasks itself with with three good-will projects, aimed locally, nationally and internationally, and this year they chose to work with Samaritan Barb Crawford on her organisation's ''Operation Christmas Child'' shoebox gifts.

They organised a mufti day with gold coin donation for the last day of term three and raised $180 which was then spent filling Christmas wish lists.

Deputy Principal Katie Moody was delighted at the perspective it gave her students.

''They had to think about the how people in different places live and realise things like how it's no good sending a football to kid's who have no means of pumping it up, or it's no good sending colouring pens to kids who have no access to paper,'' Mrs Moodie said.

The student council divided into five groups of three kids each to package the gifts...