Day 3 and the boxes keep rolling in. Today the vans were out in the GU4, GU10 and GU16 areas and also included a collection from Carolyn's garage where she has been storing over 300 donated boxes for the last week or so! Today these boxes arrived just in time as we were running low on yesterday's delivery. It's a fine balance at times!
Phew! Boxes arrive just in time
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| Marianne and Tom with boxes from Barfield School |
As well as the usual number of volunteers today, we were very pleased to welcome our first group of visitors. Students from Barfield School, Farnham arrived mid-morning and brought with them their own boxes. The school has been doing shoeboxes for many years and the students were keen to look around. They were given an "access all areas" guided tour by Jenny and Maureen, had a chance to see the boxes being checked and ask any questions they might have. The students seemed very impressed by the scale of the operation and left motivated to continue supporting us. It was great to see them - we hope you continue to enjoying doing your boxes.
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| Wendy bravely smiles through it all! |
Today's volunteer is Wendy Hoare, who, despite a having had a crown fitted first thing this morning, still came into the warehouse and spent the rest of the day checking and training. Bravo Wendy! Wendy attends St Saviour's Church and is part of the prayer chain that supports the campaign during the three weeks. She has been volunteering with OCC for as long as she can remember and loves being involved with such a worthwhile project. She says the warehouse team is like a big family and it's fantastic to meet up with people year on year to all serve the same purpose. Thanks Wendy, we hope you are fully recovered tomorrow.
The filler of the day today are these teddies in lovely hand-made bags. There are 2 types, the ones for the older girls have shoulder straps, whereas for the younger girls they are hand bag style. The bags are beautifully padded and finished and not surprisingly they all disappeared into boxes within a few hours!
And talking of teddies - where's Ted??? Only on top of the filled cartons - the 10-14 boys naturally. He'll be getting used to the company of these cartons on the long road to Krygyzstan.
But for now, it's back to the warehouse.
See you tomorrow!
This is just great! I feel like I am a part of your warehouse. It all looks much tidier than ours (but don't tell anyone I said that). Regards all
ReplyDeleteI know that feeling of running out of boxes - happened for the first time to me today. But we've got replenishments now! Good way to motivate the children by showing them the huge warehouse.
ReplyDeleteYes, we have a stock of jobs for the volunteers to do if we run low - covering boxes, sharpening pencils, bagging up sweets. Fortunately they've not been needed so far this year.
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