Heart to Hand

Every year, the school takes part in the Heart to Hand Bosnian Appeal and it was a great success.

We are asked to put any of the following items in a shoe box: cap, scarf, gloves, copy, pencil, crayons, markers, colouring book, sweets, chocolate or a very small toy.

We are asked to wrap the box with Christmas wrapping paper and indicate on the outside of the parcel whether it was suitable for a boy or girl and the age group it was suitable for.

The boxes are collected from the school in November,for transportation to the orphanages by Irish volunteers on Christmas Day.

Later last year we got to see, on video, the presents being delivered to the children of Bosnia.

It was very touching but the most poignant thing about the video was, it was so obvious that for many of them it was the first Christmas present they had ever received. The children held their present , rubbed the Christmas wrapping and had to be helped by the volunteers to open it.

For further details contact Catherine Jordan

(Clonattin Lr., Gorey, Co. Wexford.) @ 055 - 22175.