Jerusalem's foreign workers bring Christmas to Palestinian children

Published: 2003-12-11

JERUSALEM (CNS) -- Members of Jerusalem's network of foreign residents are expanding a Christmas-season project that sends shoe boxes filled with gifts to needy Palestinian children. Now in its second year, participants are distributing more than 1,000 gifts to some 16 Palestinian social service institutions and schools. In early December, colorfully decorated shoe boxes were lined up several boxes high in a bedroom in the deanery of St. George's College Jerusalem, an Anglican school, as half a dozen members of the network's charity committee wrapped other gift-filled shoe boxes in the living room. Last year, gifts were sent only to the Creche of the Holy Family, a Catholic-run orphanage located on the grounds of Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem. The program was so successful that it was expanded to the other agencies and schools, among them the Catholic-run Holy Child Care Center and School of Joy.

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