Last year, one of the boxes was given to Pov who lives in the village of Viel Thom in Cambodia. She is one of the children who received the first boxes from Australia, during the first weekend of December 2008
"I've never gotten a gift like this before," said six year old Pov.
With an unstoppable grin on her face, Pov carefully looked through the contents of her shoe box stopping to inspect a pencil case filled with pencils and erasers and pens.
"I will use this for school," she said. "I like it so much."
Pov's parents, poor rice farmers, would never have dreamed of giving a gift like that to their daughter. Yet on the day of the distribution, Pov could not contain her excitement.
How to get involved with Operation Christmas Child:
Step 1: See Barry to get your boxes from the foyer of the church
Step 2: Fill your boxes with toys, school supplies, toiletries and clothes.
Step 3: Bring them back to Barry with $8 per box for postage
Lets see if we can beat the record of boxes from last year!
