Guidelines:

Christmas Shoebox Project 2010

Helping Angels need your help to give more than 1000 children in

children’s homes and safe houses in Cape Town, the joy of getting their

own personalised gifts from Santa.

We also collect gifts for 110 residents of old age homes and food hampers

for 220 needy pensioners to spoil these wonderful forgotten angels with special Christmas treats.

1. RECEIVE THE NAME OF A SPECIAL LITTLE ANGEL

Send an email to helping.angels.cpt@gmail.com , with the following information:

♥ how many shoeboxes you would like to make ♥ which drop off point is closest to you ♥ confirm if you would like to join

us at the handouts (then we will allocate names to you for handouts that fall on a weekend)

You will receive the names allocated to you, with a wish list of the child giving information such as what the child would like

to be when they grow up, what they would love for Christmas, their clothing and shoe sizes, etc. You do not have to put the

requests on the wish list into your shoebox, this can to be used as a guideline only, but we will require that the items

mentioned below must be in each box.

2. FILL YOU SHOEBOX

We want each little angel to get a box that is about the same size, so please use a standard size shoebox, nothing bigger

than a medium shoebox (for running shoes) will be accepted. Fill your box with items from each section below to make

the gift both useful and enjoyable:

• TOYS

Pack a small toy like a tennis ball, finger puppet, yo-yo, teddy bears, building blocks, trucks and cars, dolls, etc

• EDUCATIONAL SUPPLIES

Something to do, like a coloring book, notepad, picture/puzzle/reading book, pens, pencil sharpener, rubber, pencil

case, stickers, paint, clay, etc

• HYGIENE ITEMS

All boxes must contain a toothbrush & toothpaste, soap and a facecloth. In addition to this you can also add more

hygiene items if you still have space in your box, like a hairbrush or comb, roll-on deodorant, shampoo & conditioner,

body lotion, make-up or hair accessories etc

• TREATS

Don’t include treats like chocolate that will melt in the heat, rather include dried fruits, nuts, nougat, fizzers, jelly

sweets, boxed biscuits, crisps, caramel popcorn, etc, (sell by date to be at least end of Jan 2011)

• CLOTHING

Any items such as a T-shirts, shorts, pants, dresses, jerseys, pajamas, scarf, cap, hat, socks, jackets, shoes, etc

3. DECORATE/WRAP YOUR BOX

Now the fun starts, with decorating the box!! Wrap the shoe box with bright colorful wrapping paper or let your children

create drawings to decorate the box or let them add stickers, etc. You are welcome to wrap the lid separately so that it can

be lifted off/opened to make a “keep sake” box that the child can use to store their treasures in, but please secure the lid

with an elastic band so that the goods can not fall out until it reaches your little angel.

4. LABEL YOUR BOX

Print the labels that will you received with your names, and stick the label on the outside of your shoebox, at the top right

hand corner on the lid. Without this label your box will not be accepted at the drop off points.

5. DROP OFF

The deadline for shoebox submissions will be 13 November 2010. This will give us only 3 weekends to sort, check and

personally deliver over 1000 shoeboxes before schools close, so we ask that everyone help us by sticking to this deadline and

to the agreed arrangements in terms of drop off locations. Late boxes will not be accepted, since we will have to make

alternate arrangements for all boxes not received by deadline.

If you will be attending the handout sessions, we ask that you still hand in your shoebox as per the deadline, so that we can

ensure that every child on our list will get a shoebox. This also eliminates those unforeseen circumstances that might leave a

little angel not receiving their box, which we have to avoid at all cost…. Santa never forgets!

Gerrit de Vries: Cell 082 410 4327 Joan van Kesteren: Cell 084 552 1433

43 Kokerboom Crescent, Kuilsriver 5 Bolton Road, Gleemoor, Athlone

Nicole Schoeman: Cell 083 494 7737 Sharon van der Westhuizen: Cell 084 405 8609 62 Robertson Road, Parow 71 Balfour Streets, Parow

6. BENEFICIARIES

Al Noor orphanage Woodstock

St Francis Home Athlone

Heatherdale Children's home Athlone

Marsh Memorial Athlone

Huis El Roi Observatory

Malachi Place of Safety Richwood

SA children's home Cape Town

Shiloh children's home Kraaifontein

Durbanville children's home Durbanville

Ncedelunthu Day Care Mfuleni

Dunoon Orphan Outreach Center Tableview

Bottelary Farm Project Kraaifotntein

Bottelary Primary School Kraaifontein

Colleen's Place of Hope Mitchell's Plain

Hernus Kriel Parow

Reyger Court Brooklyn

Mamawethu House of Safety Bellville

. Guidelines:

Christmas Food Parcels 2010

Helping Angels will be collecting 220 food hampers for struggling

pensioners in Brooklyn that need regular food donations. On the day of the

handouts Helping Angels will add a fresh loaf of bread and fresh fruit and

veggies to the food hampers.

1. FILL YOU FOOD HAMPER

Use a Pick n Pay or Clicks reusable shopping bag and fill it with the following non-perishable items (average

cost: R250-R300 per food hamper): FOOD: TOILETRIES:

1 1l Longlife milk 5 Toilet Rolls

1 box Cereal (weetbix, instant oats,pronutro) 2 Soap Bars

5 pkts Instant noodles, various flavours 1 Toothpaste

3 boxes Soup 4ea packs, various flavours

1 pkt Coffee

1 pkt Teabags 40 Ea

1 500g Sugar 500 Gr 1 pkt Pasta 500 Gr

2 pkts Pasta sauces, various flavours

1 tins Baked Beans In Tomato Sauce

1 tins Peas

1 tins Creamstyle Sweetcorn

1 tins Mixed Vegetables

1 tin Spaghetti And Meatballs In Tomato Sauce

1 tins Tuna In Water or Brine

1 tins Pilchards in tomato sauce

1 tin Jam

1 tub Peanut Butter

1 pot Bovril or Marmite Spread

1 tub Margarine or Butter

If you don’t have time to prepare the food hamper or won’t be able to drop it off at our drop off locations, you

can also sponsor a food hamper by donating R300, and the Helping Angels team will put your food hamper

together. We also welcome donations of any of the needed items if you are not able to donate a complete food

hamper.

2. DROP OFF

The deadline for food hamper submissions will be 4 December 2010 at any of below drop off points.

Gerrit de Vries: Cell 082 410 4327 Joan van Kesteren: Cell 084 552 1433

43 Kokerboom Crescent, Kuilsriver 5 Bolton Road, Gleemoor, Athlone

Nicole Schoeman: Cell 083 494 7737 Sharon van der Westhuizen: Cell 084 405 8609

62 Robertson Road, Parow 71 Balfour Streets, Parow

Handouts will take place on 18 Dec from 09:30 till 12:00 at Reyger Court, River Road, Brooklyn and we

welcome volunteers to help with the handouts on the day!