Big-hearted Halkirk Primary kids' kind gesture for families in Ukraine

Members of Halkirk Primary’s charity committee organised a special Blythswood Shoebox Appeal in their school and the children were delighted to help with the campaign.

The Christmas appeal is run annually by Blythswood Care, a Christian charity based in Evanton, Easter Ross. Each year, the charity collects many thousands of shoeboxes packed with gifts at various collection points and take them to where they’re needed the most – countries like Ukraine, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania and Serbia.

It’s a chance for people living in the UK to send a message of hope to some of Europe’s most vulnerable people living in poverty. The Halkirk kids rose to the challenge to fill shoeboxes with gifts for those less fortunate and took their boxes into the school and even helped load them into a van for delivery to the right locations.

A school spokesperson said they believed that many of the boxes are bound for families in Ukraine affected by the ongoing conflict with Russia.

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