THE CAMPAIGN RESTARTS IN 2023!

The deposits will welcome your shoe boxes from 1st December 2023

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 ».

We will buy food and hygiene products and offer them to our beneficiaries.
Thank you for them !

Results year after year

Of 2022 : 28.034 boxes
Of 2021 : 27.396 boxes
Of 2020 : 24.333 boxes
Of 2019 : 47.094 boxes
Of 2018 : 41.394 boxes
Of 2017 : 32.643 boxes
Of 2016 : 19.275 boxes
Of 2015 : 15.394 boxes
Of 2014 : 14.453 boxes
Of 2013 : 22.520 boxes
Of 2012 : 20.151 boxes
Of 2011 : 15.348 boxes
Of 2010 : 9.522 boxes
Of 2009 : 9.890 boxes
Of 2008 : 7.355 boxes
Of 2007 : 6.265 boxes
Of 2006 : 2.850 boxes

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.

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 2023 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 CœurPoverelloNativitas, the Samu Social, La Fontaine, Chez Nous/Bij Ons, the Spanish Mission, …

Ever better results?

Thanks to you, we can collect even more boxes…

Some Pictures