Another Saturday at the warehouse with over 60 volunteers

Saturday 24 November
Our second Saturday at the warehouse saw our volunteer numbers increase considerably from last Saturday, helped by visits from three different groups. A group came from Harvest Church in Alton, their first time at the warehouse. Merrow Scouts helped in the morning, they our regular annual visitors. Then in the afternoon we had a group from Sheerwater Scouts.

Although we had no deliveries planned for today, we had lots of boxes to check from the record beating number of boxes collected on Friday. Also there are always people dropping by with boxes as well as volunteers arriving with some. So altogether we received 253 boxes in.
So busy were our volunteers that the tables of checked boxes were creaking and Danny had to quickly draft in extra helpers to pack the cartons.

The number of shoeboxes decrease as the number of cartons increase

 At lunch time Maureen told us about her trip to Kyrgyzstan to help deliver boxes, helping us all to understand the impact of the work we do.