Operation Christmas Child Processing

It looks as though Christmas has come early at the Canberra and Southern NSW Operation Christmas Child processing centre at St Paul's Anglican Church, Curley Street, Spence as the volunteers check each shoe box gift to ensure it has the correct contents.

At any one time there are thousands of shoe boxes stacked high around the entire processing area and shoe boxes arrive by the pallet load from the outlying regional areas. Betwen 600 and 2000 shoe boxes are processed daily as up to 20 volunteers sort, stack, check, tape, cartonise and finally load cartons onto pallets to be trucked to Sydney by Cope Sensitive Transport who donate their services to OCC.

Once in Sydney the cartons will be containerised and shipped to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, PNG, the Solomon Islands, Fiji or Vanuatu where children who have never received a gift in their lives will be blessed by a small present donated by complete strangers and experience a sense of hope and joy, perhaps for the first time in their lives.

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