Shoebox Christmas Trust

Shoebox Christmas Aotearoa provides positive experiences in the form of Christmas gifts for children so they know we care.

We're also in our second year of a coaching and mentoring framework to enable young people to lead their own projects within their own community.

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We’ve been running the project in Wellington since 2014 where we started supporting 80 children. By the end of 2023 we will have delivered over 91,000 koha to whānaua and tamariki across Aotearoa. We're now working with over 200 schools and social services in 30 regions across Aotearoa (listed below).

Please note this isn't a donation page to buy Shoebox Christmas gifts, though we'll use some of the money for that if there are more missing gifts at the end of the year than what we have back-up gifters for, this page is to help with operational costs such as website hosting, development and maintenance, community requested improvements, bulk email and text costs etc.

Areas we support:

Ahuriri (Napier)

Central Otago District

Clutha District

Heretaunga (Hastings)

Horowhenua

Kapiti

Kaitaia

Manawatū

Ngāmotu (New Plymouth)

Ōtautahi (Christchurch)

Ōtepoti (Dunedin)

Ōpōtiki

Papaioea (Palmerston North)

Porirua

Rangitikei

Rotorua

South Taranaki

Tāhuna (Queenstown)

Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland)

Tararua

Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai (Lower Hutt)

Te Awa Kairangi ki Uta (Upper Hutt)

Te Tai Tokerau (Northland)

Te Tauihu-o-te-waka (Marlborough)

Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington)

Tūranganui-a-Kiwa (Gisborne)

Waihōpai (Invercargill)

Waimakariri

Whakaahurangi (Stratford)

Whakaoriori (Masterton)

Whakatāne

Whanganui

Ngā mihi nui, Pera and the Shoebox Christmas whānau.