Work in Progress

I got out again today, must be a record. We went to the Samaritan's Purse warehouse in Christchurch with a car packed full of bags of cuddly toys, and loads of other items suitable for the next Christmas shoebox appeal which we have collected from charity shops. Before Christmas we sent from our warehouse 8104 shoeboxes to Haiti and 8713 to Belarus. In the picture are some of the cartons filled with shoeboxes destined for Swaziland. The reason they have not gone yet is that we are awaiting delivery of a considerable number of boxes which people have prepared through an online link. They have to be checked and packed in cartons to join the others. It's the first time the online scheme has been tried and is designed to encourage extremely busy people to complete boxes who, normally, wouldn't take part due to time constraints, etc.