Because everybody deserve a Christmas present
Because everybody deserve a Christmas present
Because everybody deserve a Christmas present

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THE CAMPAIGN RESTARTS IN 2025!

The deposits will welcome your shoe boxes from 1st December 2025

We will be harvesting them between 9 and 18 December.

You can bring your shoebox to one of the many storage locations.

You are a private individual, a school or a company ?

Visit our site and contact as soon as possible or send a mail: 0474 54 06 87 a email to : shoebox.lessamaritains@gmail.com

Would you like to offer a Shoebox ?

If you cannot go to a deposit, we have a solution :

OFFER A VIRTUAL SHOEBOX !

Pay the price of a Shoebox on the account

BE19 3101 5855 8512

of the Samaritains asbl with the mention

« for one (or more) Shoebox ».

Associations must now include the national registration number of their donors when submitting their list of donors eligible for a tax certificate to Belcotax. This allows donors to automatically benefit from tax deductions in their simplified annual tax return.
Could you please send us this number via our email address: les.samaritains.asbl@gmail.com?

A donation of at least €40 per calendar year entitles you to a tax certificate and a 30% tax exemption.

We will buy food and hygiene products and offer them to our beneficiaries.

Thank you for them !

Results year after year

2023 : 29.628 boîtes

2022 : 28.034 boîtes

2021 : 27.396 boîtes

2020 : 24.333 boîtes

2019 : 47.094 boîtes

2018 : 41.394 boîtes

2017 : 32.643 boîtes

2016 : 19.275 boîtes

2015 : 15.394 boîtes

2014 : 14.453 boîtes

2013 : 22.520 boîtes

2012 : 20.151 boîtes

2011 : 15.348 boîtes

2010 : 9.522 boîtes

2009 : 9.890 boîtes

2008 : 7.355 boîtes

2007 : 6.265 boîtes

2006 : 2.850 boîtes

Thanks to the generosity of our donators, the campaign collected and distributed to the homeless and poor of Belgium.

We would like that schools and associations which participate in the operation and distribute inform us (by e-mail rather) so that we can establish precise statistics.

Your are an Individual

Launched in 1999 by les Samaritains asbl of Brussels, the campaign donated thousands of gifts for the homeless and the poor of Belgium. These gifts are distributed by various charitable associations during the year-end holiday season (Les Restos du Cœur, Poverello…).

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 bring the shoe boxes?

The shoe boxes are to be deposited from 1st December 2025 in one of the storage locations listed on the page storage locations. Talk it over with your friends to arrange to group your donations and drop them off at one of the storage locations.

Who distributes the boxes?

The boxes are distributed to the homeless and the poor by the Restos du Cœur, Poverello, Nativitas, the Samu Social, La Fontaine, Chez Nous/Bij Ons, the Spanish Mission, …

Ever better results?

Thanks to you, we can collect even more boxes…

You are a school

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?

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.

You are a company

Businesses

Over past years, numerous businesses and administrations have participated in the campaign.

Often, this results from the proposal of one of their employees who becomes responsible for the campaign within the organization. This person builds awareness among his colleagues, collects the boxes and organizes their pick-up and delivery to a storage location.

Your business can also participate !

How to prepare the shoe box?

No clothes nor shoes, please.

Where to deposit the boxes?

The boxes can be delivered to any one of the numerous designated storage locations during their opening hours. For a significant number of boxes, it is preferable to contact the storage location (+32 (0)474 540 687) or the campaign coordinator prior to delivery.