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The project’s aim is to strengthen our partners capacity to advocate and mobilize communities towards elimination of stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS and to provide education to rural populace to achieve zero new infections.

The first of this year’s Christmas shoeboxes are being put together as we speak! Our partners in Rwanda & Transnistria have been busy sourcing all of the contents and reviewing the lists of the things you’ve added on our build-a-box page!

Whether you send it to someone far away that you sadly can't hug this year or give it to your next door neighbour to thank them for their support over the last year, it will definitely warm their heart to know that you've given a child the gift of joy this Christmas.

The boxes will be wrapped and ready to deliver at Christmas!

Lorna has been a dedicated volunteer of the Christmas Shoebox Appeal for many years and because this year is so different Lorna has found a whole new way to support the appeal.

Keelin O'Connor has committed to running a whopping 100km in one month in aid of Christmas Shoeboxes. It's not an easy time of year to commit to a daily run so THANK YOU Keelin- every single child who receives one of your shoeboxes will be grateful beyond what you will ever know!

Instead of running around collecting and checking shoeboxes this November, we will be running around Monaghan in the cold on the dark evenings after work- this should prove quite a challenge as we are both very unfit! We will aim to complete a 5k run in December all being well!!

"The Christmas shoebox appeal has impacted my life in so many ways. As a child making these boxes I had absolutely no idea what just that one box did for a child."

"Myself and some of my team have volunteered with the Shoebox Appeal before so this in a nice way to stay connected this year as its all online."