United Caribbean Trust (UCT) embarked on its fourth Make Jesus Smile Christmas shoebox project.

We want to thank the Sunday schools, and the Primary and Secondary schools of Barbados that got involved in this fourth Christmas initiative enabling us to send 2,500 shoeboxes to Haiti.

On behalf of all my brothers and sisters in Haiti I want to say a great

BIG thank you!

Thanks to BIDC who donated the warehouse again this year and Eric Hassel & Son and Seaboard Marine that donated the container and shipped it free of cost to Haiti. Thanks to Calvin Alkins our broker for organizing everything to ensure the container arrived safely in Haiti.

Thanks to the many volunteers that donated their valued time to enable us meet the deadline.

Thanks for the teams that came from YWAM and did an enormous amount of work.

Special thanks to Janelle and Daniel Noel, seen below left, who mobilized their Nazarene church to pack hundreds of boxes for the Goniave Nazarene children.

Thanks for your help in Haiti it was good to have a Bajan on board!!! < Click to view their distribution >

Thanks for the team in Haiti that have assisted with the distribution of these precious gifts.

We are praying that they will be a box of Hope in this very difficult time for Haiti having been so badly impacted by the recent earthquake.

Click to view the Haiti 2009 Make Jesus Smile shoebox distribution.

'Make Jesus Smile' means so much to a needy child. These children will recognize that someone, another child from within the Caribbean, whom they will probably never meet, cared enough to send a gift and a Christmas card to them.

Thanks to Charles F Broome who once again produced hundreds of beautifully wrapped and packed boxes.

This kind act of generosity will bring joy, hope and a little of God’s love into a desperately poor situation and can cause both the children who send the gifts and those who receive them to remember the true meaning of Christmas.

Seen here Cheron Rose Hardy the Founder of Hope Haven Orphanage in Cap Haitian

By wrapping the lid of the box separate to the bottom and filling it with a range of small items suitable for a child of your chosen gender and age range, you can send a ‘shoe box of hope’ to Haiti

The Rock Christian School must get first prize for the best wrapped boxes. Theirs were most imaginative and focused on the Independence of Barbados and all things Bajan.

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