If you are familiar with Operation Christmas Child, you already know what a great organization it is! FTM will be helping Koinos Church put together boxes during collection week.
If you want to donate to the Operation Christmas Drive — listed below is what we will be collecting. If you are in PA, we will be tentatively meeting in Allentown, PA area, Lancaster, PA area and Reading, PA area to collect donations. Please let us know you would like to donate by filling out the contact form and we will put you on the info list for you area. I will be making rounds to collect the items myself, so it would also be nice to meet you!
If you would like to make a monetary donation to help purchase small toys – please go here and fill out the FTM Contact Form or leave a comment and I can provide info. FTM will be purchasing the boxes and making the donation to have the box shipped. I am hoping we can fill 100 Boxes!
Here is what we need:
- SCHOOL SUPPLIES: pens, pencils and sharpeners, crayons or markers, stamps and ink pad sets, writing pads or paper, solar calculators, coloring and picture books, etc. Toys: small cars, balls, dolls, stuffed animals, kazoos, harmonicas, yo-yos, jump ropes, toys that light up or make noise, etc.
- HYGIENE ITEMS: toothbrushes, mild bar soap, combs, toothpaste, washcloths, etc. (ALL personal hygiene items for small children)
- OTHER: T-shirts, socks, ball caps, sunglasses, hair clips, toy jewelry, watches, flashlights, batteries,
mrl says
Hi Shannon,
I’d like to do a OCG drive with our American Heritage Girl troop. I’m a little concerned that we’d end up with a whole lot of one thing and not much of the rest (i.e. lots of school items, not many hygiene or fun items). I’m also not sure how’d we’d run the logistics of putting the boxes together (do only a few people put the OCG shoeboxes together? would it be mass chaos is every girl filled a box?). If you have any particulars on how you run your drive to get a somewhat equal amount of the different categories of stuff and/or how you organize volunteers to stuff the shoeboxes I would love to hear more.
Shannon says
Hey there, can you email me or use the contact form to get in touch. :)