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Shoebox milestone

Operation Christmas Child has delivered 100 million shoeboxes to needy children around the world.

Since 1990, the charity Samaritan’s Purse has been providing these simple gifts to children in more than 100 countries.

More than 6,200 gift-filled shoeboxes from across Northumberland have been exported to vulnerable children in Belarus, Bosnia and Ukraine.


 
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Thursday 23 May 2013

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