Once again this year kind students from The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts College have shown their generous nature by creating gift boxes which will be sent to disadvantaged youngsters many miles away.
Year 7 students from the school’s four Houses, Apollo, Fortune, Garrick and Phoenix, brought in items such as toys, toiletries, school equipment and other goodies for the boxes which will be sent to disadvantaged children across the globe.
In total seventy filled boxes were collected by a representative from Samaritan’s Purse the organisation behind Operation Christmas Child an initiative which has sent millions of boxes to children is 130 countries since beginning back in 1990.
Year 7 Transition Leader, Alison Bearpark, said “It was been wonderful to see our students taking part in this project by bringing in items which made up these shoe boxes. I am really impressed, and pleased, that we managed to create 70 boxes which will make a difference to 70 disadvantaged children.”
Alison Davies, Headteacher, said “This is the first in a number of charitable activities we have organised during the Christmas period and I am really proud of our new year 7 students for the way they’ve taken to this project. I am also grateful to all the parents, and the staff, who have supported this initiative, helping to make it a success.”
More information Operation Christmas Child can be found here