‘Love in a Box’ brings Christmas joy to those who have nothing
Again this year St. Peter’s Aldborough Hatch was a collecting point for the ‘Love in a Box’ Christmas Appeal. One hundred and two shoeboxes packed with sweets, toys, toiletries, warm gloves, scarves and hats and decorated with Christmas wrapping paper were collected from the church on Thursday 9th November. Forty of the boxes came from the church of St James in Halesworth, Suffolk, whilst the remaining 62 were made up by members of St. Peter’s and their friends.
The Children in Distress ‘Love in a Box’ Scheme gives children and adults who would otherwise have nothing a present at Christmas. Some 6,000 shoeboxes packed with a variety of goods will be taken from the UK to Eastern Europe in time for the festive season.
Children in Distress was initiated in 1990 to address the plight of the children and orphans with HIV AIDS or that of infants and children abandoned in Romania's rundown hospitals – those in institutions as result of terminal or incurable illness as result of accident, infection, genetic disorders or accident at birth.
St. Peter’s Aldborough Hatch has been involved in ‘Love in a Box’ from the beginning for it was started by the Reverend Dr John Walmsley in the neighbouring parish of St. Laurence, Barkingside.
Today the charity has its UK base in Glasgow and still cares for children of all races and religions in Eastern Europe – with the stated aims: to cure, sometimes; to help, often; to comfort, always.
The charity offers love and care to infants and children with a range of other incurable and terminal illnesses, physical disorders and disabilities and those who need a little extra support to overcome discrimination, disadvantage, and an opportunity to change their future. The vision is to create a better today for children who may have no tomorrow.
Again this year St. Peter’s Aldborough Hatch was a collecting point for the ‘Love in a Box’ Christmas Appeal. One hundred and two shoeboxes packed with sweets, toys, toiletries, warm gloves, scarves and hats and decorated with Christmas wrapping paper were collected from the church on Thursday 9th November. Forty of the boxes came from the church of St James in Halesworth, Suffolk, whilst the remaining 62 were made up by members of St. Peter’s and their friends.
The Children in Distress ‘Love in a Box’ Scheme gives children and adults who would otherwise have nothing a present at Christmas. Some 6,000 shoeboxes packed with a variety of goods will be taken from the UK to Eastern Europe in time for the festive season.
Children in Distress was initiated in 1990 to address the plight of the children and orphans with HIV AIDS or that of infants and children abandoned in Romania's rundown hospitals – those in institutions as result of terminal or incurable illness as result of accident, infection, genetic disorders or accident at birth.
St. Peter’s Aldborough Hatch has been involved in ‘Love in a Box’ from the beginning for it was started by the Reverend Dr John Walmsley in the neighbouring parish of St. Laurence, Barkingside.
Today the charity has its UK base in Glasgow and still cares for children of all races and religions in Eastern Europe – with the stated aims: to cure, sometimes; to help, often; to comfort, always.
The charity offers love and care to infants and children with a range of other incurable and terminal illnesses, physical disorders and disabilities and those who need a little extra support to overcome discrimination, disadvantage, and an opportunity to change their future. The vision is to create a better today for children who may have no tomorrow.
