‘Operation Christmas Child’ efforts delight

• Published date: 04 November 2021
• Publication title: Clutha Leader

Every year the school’s student council tasks itself with carrying out three goodwill projects, aimed locally, nationally and internationally, and this year it 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 3 and raised $180, which was then spent filling Christmas wish lists.

Deputy principal Katie Moody was delighted at the perspective it gave her pupils.

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

The student council packaged the gifts into shoebox-sized cartons supplied by Samaritans.

Mrs Crawford’s church has been doing Christmas shoeboxes for 25 years and she said she...