Rotary District 1110 Shoebox Scheme

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This scheme, which is a registered charity numbered 1064463, has been operating for a number of years and various Rotary clubs within the 1110 Rotary district have taken responsibility for its organisation.

The objective of the scheme is to fill shoeboxes, covered with Christmas wrapping paper, with gifts which are then shipped abroad and given to disadvantaged children who probably have not received a gift before.

The Southampton Clausentum club has agreed to take over the organisation of the project for a three year period from 2009, which was previously undertaken by the Ringwood club. 58,000 leaflets have been printed which, in addition to giving examples of suitable items to include and those not suitable, each one has a gummed tear-off portion which is attached to the box and indicates the sex and age range of the recipient child. People making up the boxes are also asked to contribute £1 per box to cover administration costs.

The majority of clubs in District 1110 participated in the scheme and by involving local schools and the general public, some 24,100 shoeboxes were received at the central collection point in November 2007 and 26,800 in November  2008.

The destination countries were the same as the previous year and we shipped approx two-thirds of the boxes to Montenegro and one-third to Tanzania while clubs on the Isle of Wight shipped boxes to Romania.

Can you help Rotary District 1110 make this a record year thus enabling even more children to get a once-in-a-lifetime present?