Teachers, Use the Shoe-Box campaign to raise awareness among your students and to the existence of poverty and solitude.

Many schools, like the Athénée Royale of Pont-à-Celles, have already participated in the shoe box campaign. They help in various ways:

• by spreading the word to the student’s parents who prepare the boxes at home,
• by gathering the ingredients and preparing the boxes with the children,
• by organizing the production and the sale of fruit jam to purchase the contents of the boxes,
• by adding a drawing or a short note written in class by the children

Your class or your school can also participate!

Specifically

How to prepare the shoe box?

The shoe boxes contain more or less 10 food items and beverages (non-alcoholic, non-perishable, easy to open and ready to eat) and a season’s greetings card. When filled, they are wrapped as Christmas gifts. Hygiene articles, gloves, a scarft, a cap are welcome too.

No clothes nor shoes, please.

Where to deposit the boxes?

Within Brussels: The Samaritains can collect the boxes at your school. Given limited availability of drivers and vehicles, please contact us by telephone (+32 (0)474 540 687) to determine a date and pick-up time at least one week in advance.

Outside Brussels: The Samaritains are unable to pick up the boxes. However, you may deposit the boxes in any one of our numerous storage locations. For a significant number of boxes, it is preferable to contact the storage location or the campaign coordinator prior to delivery.