Operation Shoe Box

Operation Shoe Box Around 600 shoe boxes full of gifts were flown to orphanages housing children orphaned by the 1994 genocide last Christmas, and this successful appeal is being repeated this year.

Children from Awsworth Junior, Infant, and Nursery Schools, Greasley Beauvale Juniors and Eastwoods Priory R.C. School in Nottingham are already planning what they will include in their gifts for "Operation Shoe Box".

Freight firm DHL are flying the presents out free in December courtesy of Bachi Spiga and Gillian Lee. Nicky Porter-Veal and Nicole Wolvin both of Nottingham are co-organising the event for the second year.

Operation Shoe Box began after the two women became penfriends of four teenage sisters in an orphanage in Rwanda's capital Kigali.

Miss Porter-Veal said "We want to do things even bigger this year. We will be approaching Notts businesses and asking them if they can donate anything the children in Rwanda could use, things like books, stationery, toys, clothes or toiletries."

Businesses can contact Miss Porter-Veal on 0115 854 8515