A Wauchope company is helping give Christmas presents to children in poorer countries who’ve never had a gift before.
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Pearson’s Transport are joining in the community effort, involving churches, schools, pre-schools, the council, banks and many local businesses, to make Christmas special for Third World kids.
Every year in the Hastings area, people fill 2500 shoeboxes with Christmas presents which are given to children in Cambodia, Vietnam, Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa and Thailand.
We went out to the Uniting Church in Beechwood and they do 75 boxes a year and there are only 30 people in the church. It's amazing.
- Graeme Knightly, Operation Christmas Child
Helpers are asked to fill each shoebox with simple gifts, and include something from each of the six categories.
They are: something to wear, something to play with, something for school, something to love, something special and something for personal hygiene.
Pearson's Transport bring the boxes to the Sydney warehouse of Samaritan’s Purse. It’s a non-profit Christian organisation, which provides emergency relief and development help to suffering people around the world.
Over the past eight years, Pearson’s have been bringing the presents down the coast free of charge. Their help saves a significant cost, as all those involved with Operation Christmas Child are volunteers.
Volunteer Graeme Kightley says the generosity of people in the Hastings, particularly in Wauchope and country areas, is outstanding. If you want to help, his number is 0408646564.
Since 1993 Samaritan’s Purse has delivered 135 million gifts to 160 countries and territories. Four million have been sent from Australia and New Zealand.
Letitia Fitzpatrick
Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.
Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.
