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Festive shoeboxes for children in Eastern Europe

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Vicky Angear

Published: 6:00 PM November 25, 2015    Updated: 8:59 PM October 27, 2020
Students with the boxes they have filled with Christmas gifts.

Students with the boxes they have filled with Christmas gifts. - Credit: Archant

Generous students from a Nailsea school have filled shoeboxes with Christmas presents to send to children in Eastern Europe.

Ravenswood School, in Pound Lane, is supporting Blythswood Care this year and pupils enjoyed picking out gifts to send to children in war-torn countries.

The school collected enough gifts to fill 30 shoeboxes and the older students helped to pack the parcels.

Last year the charity sent shoeboxes to Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Pakistan, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.

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