ROTARY SHOEBOX SCHEME

Fill a Christmas Shoebox with gifts for a needy
child . . . 

Chichester Priory Rotary are joining in a nationwide scheme to deliver Christmas presents to needy children in Albania, Montenegro and Romania. Children in Chichester’s schools are being asked to fill a shoebox with goodies such as small soft toys, jigsaws, books, crayons, games and small personal items, all geared to age and gender.
Rotary will then organise the transport of the gift-filled- shoeboxes to Eastern Europe in time for Christmas.
The more shoeboxes we can get filled, the more underprivileged children will be made happy at Christmas.
So please think about your own household filling a shoebox too. Full details are set out here of what to include.

We’ll need all filled shoeboxes by 02 November to ensure that they’re transported in time for Christmas.

When your box is complete, please email rotarychichesterpriory@gmail.com  to tell us it’s ready and where you are, and we’ll arrange everything with you.

Guidelines for donating a filled shoebox this Christmas - how to make up your shoebox

                                                              

                                                                          SIZE OF BOX

Unfortunately we CANNOT ACCEPT BOXES  LARGER THAN 

      33 x 20 x 15 cm  (13" x 8"x 6")

Things to put in shoebox (limitations)

International Customs require items to be for educational, health & hygiene purposes

ALL ITEMS MUST BE NEW OR IN ‘AS NEW’ CONDITION

PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE

Battery operated items

War related items: guns, toys , knives books etc

Books of a religious, racial or political

nature

Food of any kind. Liquids of any kind. Sweets of any kind

Medicines, Large toys, Sharp items

CONTENT (good quality new or ‘as new’)

Age 1-3 boy or girl - Choose from -

Small soft toy, picture book, hat, gloves, socks, soap, hairbrush, flannel, toothbrush & toothpaste, , plus any other suitable small items.

Age 4-7 boy or girl - Choose from -

Educational book or game, simple jigsaw, ball, Lego, crayons and colouring book, hat, scarf, gloves, socks, soap, hairbrush, flannel, toothbrush & toothpaste, toy vehicle, small doll, skipping rope

Age 8-11 boy or girl - Choose from -

Educational book or game, jigsaw, ball, card game, felt-tip pens, pencils, pencil case, drawing book, hat, scarf, gloves, socks, soap, wide toothed comb, flannel, toothbrush & toothpaste, sports item, skipping rope, hair accessories

Age 12 - 15   boy or girl - Choose from 

Educational book or game, geometry set, playing cards, pens, pencils, pencil case, pencil sharpener, rubber, writing/drawing book, hat, scarf, gloves, socks, soap, wide toothed comb, flannel, toothbrush & toothpaste, wash-bag, hair accessories, sports item, 

PLEASE COVER YOUR BOX with wrapping paper, ensuring that the lid can be opened for Customs purposes.

DO NOT SEAL THE BOX

Don’t wrap individual items, just put them in the box.

Use an elastic band to secure the box

Include a Christmas card & maybe a letter or photo if you wish 

Mark on top of box 

the age group and whether it’s intended for a boy or girl.

IMPORTANT Please sellotape to the top of the box a £1 coin                              With our grateful thanks

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label for box  

     ROTARY - PEOPLE OF ACTION

A PRESENT WITH LOVE FROM

Please tick who the Shoebox is intended for

BOY     age  1-3     4-7     8-11    12-15       GIRL

PLEASE STICK THIS LABEL & YOUR £1 DONATION TO TOP OF SHOEBOX

All funds will be held by Rotary Wessex COI Account

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Shelter Box

The International Committee supports Shelter Box, and to date has sent dozens of boxes to

 many disaster sites throughout the world. 

Shelter Box will normally contain a 10-person tent, plus a selection of other equipment to help an extended family survive for a minimum of six months. The exact contents will depend on local conditions and what is most needed but will generally include blankets, a multi-fuel stove, cooking equipment, water containers and purification tablets, a basic tool kit and a childrens pack. Each box is individually numbered and donors where and when their box has been sent via its unique number.

BOOKS FOR SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS

For many years, the Club's International Committee sent boxes of
books to equip libraries in schools in the Western Cape. An excellent project with minimal costs.

Nova Vista School Kirstenbosch: part of the school library. Many  of the books were donated by Chichester Schools.

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We also support the Tea Tree Trust, improving life in the tea growing areas of Sri Lanka:

http://www.tealeaftrust.com/index.htm

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Mizumoni Library Project-Uk Based Charitable Project to build a library in Mivumoni, South East Kenya.
The Mivumoni Library Project was started by two 19 year old students Luke Weeks  & Charlie Hammons from Chichester,  who having returned from a three month trip to Mivumoni in South East Kenya, where they taught at both the local primary and secondary schools, set out to give something back to a community who had made them  feel so welcome.
In Mivumoni, they  encountered an extremely vibrant and intelligent youth population, full of unrealised potential. Subsistance farming families routinely make huge sacrifices to send their children to school, but, unfortunately, textbooks are prohibitively expensive. So much so that during their time teaching at the schools, they we did not encounter one child with a full set of textbooks and most had no textbooks at all.
 After talking at length to many people in Mivumoni, including students, teachers, farmers and local politicians, they  concluded the way to conquer this was to build and stock a library at Mivumoni Secondary School. Building a library would create an environment which we envisage not just being an area of study, giving the students access to the textbooks they so desperately need, but a public library including fiction and non fiction texts to serve the community at large. Upen their return to England they set about raising £7000 through many fundraising events, concerts, fashion shows,etc in and around Chichester- even a sponsored hike to Switzerland. Several Rotary clubs including our own contributed to the cost of the project.  The library is now complete.
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Sand Dams

Our club provided significant support to the Sand Dams project a project  which has been made a District Priority and our District Foundation Committee matched our donation with a 100% Grant.

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INTERNATIONAL PROJECT- WHEELCHAIRS TO SOUTH AFRICA

Combined contributions from many Rotary sources, including our own club, enabled the funding of 110 wheeelchairs and spares, delivered to our partner club: the Rotary Club of Arcadia, East London, District 9350 South Africa.

A few pictures of a really genuine need of a wheelchair. When we arrived without warning the boy was lying in the dirt outside his home.The boy's father was
overcome with joy and gave an impassioned thank youin English  for his son with tears rolling down his cheeks