My mom is a one-woman NGO. She packs lunches and hands them out through her car window to panhandlers on street corners, she makes and donates quilts, and she started, a few years back, making boxes for Operation Christmas Child. She started with one, and then doubled the number of boxes every year until she got to 16, and then she added a few each year. This year, she did 25, and then enlisted others to do boxes, too. Here’s some shots of the workshop and the elves, hard at work.
Our friend F’s imagination was really captured by one of the notes from Operation Christmas Child that said that some of the children use the plastic shoe boxes as bowls, and joined the party. Between her church, my mom’s church, and my mom, they did 104 boxes last year.