The document provides guidelines for the Christmas Shoebox Project 2010 and Christmas Food Parcels 2010 run by Helping Angels. It instructs participants to fill a shoebox or food hamper with specified items, label and drop it off by the deadline to be distributed to over 1000 children and 220 pensioners. Participants can receive names and profiles of children to personalize shoeboxes for. The final dates are November 13 for shoeboxes and December 4 for food hampers.

1. 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

2. 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

3. Guidelines:
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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!