Wolverhampton school sends shoe boxes to help children in need
Staff and students at a Wolverhampton school have donated hundreds of essential items to help children in need around the world.
Colton Hills Community School packed 124 shoe boxes with necessities including toothbrushes, soaps and flannels as part of the Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box Appeal.
This year has seen an increase on last year's total of 58 boxes. The packages have been dispatched to help children in Bosnia.
Organiser Mick Woodhouse said he was staggered by the generosity of his students and staff.
The school had tasked sixth form students with finding inventive ways of raising the £3 asked by the charity to help cover the cost of transporting the boxes.
They organised bake sales and nail art for sixth form and staff and raised more than £300.
The charity that runs the shoe box collection sends the boxes around the world to victims of war, poverty, natural disaster and famine.
They are distributed to children based upon need.
