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Last Christmas, nearly 1.1 million children from 14 countries across the world recieved a special shoebox gift thanks to the commitment of supporters and volunteers across the UK. This is more than just an impressive statistic - it is the reality that each of those children will have been filled with joy at receiving a gift of love sent by children and adults that you encouraged to get involved.

Last year was a memorable one for Operation Christmas Child for a number of reasons. It was our 20 year anniversary, we launched Shoebox World enabling shoeboxes to be given online for the first time, and our brave volunteers battled Arctic conditions in the UK to ensure your shoeboxes could be shipped out to their destination countries.

The above picture is of a young girl in Montenegro holding her shoebox. Whether you packed one or more shoeboxes, drove a van to collect hundreds of shoeboxes or organised a warehouse with thousands of shoeboxes, we at Samaritan’s Purse wanted to join with them to say thank you too. Without you, Christmas miracles like this couldn’t happen.

Thank you for all your support! 

There will be more pictures and videos of distributions uploaded onto the official Operation Christmas Child UK Facebook page. Feel free to become a fan and pay us a visit www.facebook.com/occuk