JOURNAL readers have been thanked for their "fantastic response" to the Christmas Shoe box Appeal.
A mammoth 24,153 present-filled boxes for children in troubled countries were donated by generous Journal readers for this year's appeal. More than 63,000 boxes from the North West were flown out to children in troubled countries like Azerbaijan and Russia.
And the plane that flew the much-wanted goodies to needy children in Azerbaijan bore a logo designed by Tyldesley school girl Chelsea Morris.
Chelsea, a pupil at Tyldesley St George's Central, beat hundreds of other youngsters to get her design airborne in the Norweb Energi paint-a-plane competition.
Her winning creation of a hand cradling the world with each finger representing a child from Russia, Holland, China, Mexico and India was displayed on the side of the transport plane.
In December, the Journal featured Chelsea and mum Vanessa taking a trip around Liverpool Airport to take a look at the logo.
Norweb Energi and Operation Christmas Child have thanked Journal readers for their generosity.
Colin Johnston, communications manager for Norweb Energi said: "The response from the people of Lancashire has been fantastic. The shoe boxes that they collected flew out to the countries where they were most needed and have now been given to the children.
"We would like to say thank you to all of the readers of the Leigh Journal who gave their time and effort to fill a shoe box."
Shoe boxes from Lancashire joined millions from all over the world in the effort to give a child a Christmas they would not normally have.
This year has been a record-breaking year for Norweb Energi and Operation Christmas Child with more than 700,000 shoe boxes being collected from across the UK. JOURNAL readers have been thanked for their "fantastic response" to the Christmas Shoe box Appeal.
A mammoth 24,153 present-filled boxes for children in troubled countries were donated by generous Journal readers for this year's appeal. More than 63,000 boxes from the North West were flown out to children in troubled countries like Azerbaijan and Russia.
And the plane that flew the much-wanted goodies to needy children in Azerbaijan bore a logo designed by Tyldesley school girl Chelsea Morris.
Chelsea, a pupil at Tyldesley St George's Central, beat hundreds of other youngsters to get her design airborne in the Norweb Energi paint-a-plane competition.
Her winning creation of a hand cradling the world with each finger representing a child from Russia, Holland, China, Mexico and India was displayed on the side of the transport plane.
In December, the Journal featured Chelsea and mum Vanessa taking a trip around Liverpool Airport to take a look at the logo.
Norweb Energi and Operation Christmas Child have thanked Journal readers for their generosity.
Colin Johnston, communications manager for Norweb Energi said: "The response from the people of Lancashire has been fantastic. The shoe boxes that they collected flew out to the countries where they were most needed and have now been given to the children.
"We would like to say thank you to all of the readers of the Leigh Journal who gave their time and effort to fill a shoe box."
Shoe boxes from Lancashire joined millions from all over the world in the effort to give a child a Christmas they would not normally have.
This year has been a record-breaking year for Norweb Energi and Operation Christmas Child with more than 700,000 shoe boxes being collected from across the UK.
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