The children have been gathering contents all year and have now packed 100 shoe boxes. President Margaret Taylor and Rotarian Tony Tye collected the shoe boxes from the school and thanked th children for thier efforts.

Originally started in District 1280 in 1994, the Rotary Shoebox Scheme was then intended to provide children of Iasi, in north-east Romania with Christmas gifts. Since then, the scheme has become an RIBI International Project and every District in RIBI is involved in this popular Scheme.
Gifts are now sent out throughout the year to many different countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Toys are especially useful all year round for Birthday presents in the Orphanages, Homes and Hospitals. All age groups, including teenagers, have welcomed the boxes.
In addition to Romania, Shoebox gifts have been delivered to Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Albania, Croatia and Kosovo.
Each year we now send around 60,000 Shoeboxes or gifts.