christmas 2015......fast approaching
This month, TEECH would like to ask you to support the Christmas Shoebox Appeal.
There are many ways you can help, from completing a shoebox yourself, gathering items together that would be suitable for a box and sending them through to us, finding empty shoeboxes for others to use, gathering warm winter clothing or just donating a few pounds towards the trip to help with transportation costs.
The team of volunteers will travel to Romania and Moldova, to hand deliver the donations you provide. Last year over 1,700 boxes were delivered to schools, an orphanage, and people in their homes. There was plenty of snow to make it feel really like Christmas, which in turn made it extremely cold! This year we hope to deliver as many boxes again to some of the same families and also visit Bolduresti, the school where the team completed the August project.
There are many ways you can help, from completing a shoebox yourself, gathering items together that would be suitable for a box and sending them through to us, finding empty shoeboxes for others to use, gathering warm winter clothing or just donating a few pounds towards the trip to help with transportation costs.
The team of volunteers will travel to Romania and Moldova, to hand deliver the donations you provide. Last year over 1,700 boxes were delivered to schools, an orphanage, and people in their homes. There was plenty of snow to make it feel really like Christmas, which in turn made it extremely cold! This year we hope to deliver as many boxes again to some of the same families and also visit Bolduresti, the school where the team completed the August project.
For all the instructions on completing a box, please download the poster below. We hope this will be useful to spread the word where you might work or amongst friends. The instructions are also on the website.
The deadline for boxes to be dropped at BT depots is Friday 11th December, or if you are able to deliver to us locally by 19th December.
Many Thanks in advance.
The deadline for boxes to be dropped at BT depots is Friday 11th December, or if you are able to deliver to us locally by 19th December.
Many Thanks in advance.
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Clothing
Clothing is always required for the Christmas trip and summer trips, therefore please keep gathering together good quality second hand clothing and sending it through to us.
hospital beds
Thanks goes to Mary Rothwell who has once again managed to obtain hospital beds for TEECH. The beds will be donated to the hospital in Nisporeni, Moldova where support has been received by TEECH from nurses and doctors, therefore it is nice for the charity to provide something really useful to them.
If you would like to donate single bed sheets, then we can ensure the beds have something on them for the patients.
If you would like to donate single bed sheets, then we can ensure the beds have something on them for the patients.
packing dates
As reported last month, TEECH are now based in Colchester for packing days. The next sort and pack will take place on 10th October. Please see the packing dates page for the dates when they are released and contact us if you require directions.