The Christmas elves have been busy at the Hawaii Police Department.
The Christmas elves have been busy at the Hawaii Police Department.
This year, the department, along with other island organizations, collected 8,976 shoe box gifts to be distributed to kids around the world.
The boxes were donated for the 25th year of Operation Christmas Child, which has delivered more than 157 million shoe box gifts to children in more than 160 countries.
Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, collects shoe box gifts filled with school supplies, hygiene items, and fun toys and delivers them to children in need around the world who are experiencing war, poverty, famine and disease. It is the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind.
More information can be found on samartianspurse.org/occ.
