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Jade Eager, Coren Hughes, Sean Hill and Ellen Riordan of the Scoil Eoin Students Council with some of the shoeboxes on Thursday morning. Photo by Dermot Crean
THE pupils from Scoil Eoin have been very busy this past week gathering items for the annual Christmas Shoebox Appeal for those less fortunate.
The appeal was co-ordinated by the Students Council and by Thursday they had gathered 45o boxes and €1,100 in cash to donate to Team Hope who bring the boxes to children in Eastern Europe and Africa.
Usually a shoebox contains something to write with (pencils, crayons, etc), something to wash with (like a toothbrush or facecloth), something to wear and a treat like a cuddly toy etc. and is the only gift the children will receive this Christmas.
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The Scoil Eoin Student Council in front of a pile of boxes for the Team Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal with teacher and Students Council Co-ordinator, Carol Anne O’Donoghue. Photo by Dermot Crean
Teacher Carol Anne O’Donoghue is the co-ordinator of the Students Council – which is made of 12 representatives from the 5th and 6th classes – and said the pupils in the school really got into it.
“There was great enthusiasm among the pupils to help. I gave them the task of filling the shoeboxes on their mid-term break and they came back with the boxes overflowing. The Students Council then helped me go through the boxes to sort them out,” she said.
The boxes are being collected on Friday by Team Hope and pupils can see videos of the children in Africa and Eastern Europe receiving and opening them on the Team Hope website in a few weeks time.
Team Hope is an Irish, Christian development aid charity, working with children, and through them, into their families and communities mainly across Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union and Africa
Over the last eighteen years they have delivered shoebox gifts to over three million children, to some of the remotest and poorest parts of the world.
