United Caribbean Trust (UCT) embarked on its fourth Make Jesus Smile Barbados Christmas shoebox project.

We want to thank the Sunday schools, and the Primary and Secondary schools of Barbados that got involved in this fourth Christmas initiative enabling us to send 2,500 shoeboxes to Haiti.

UCT has always used the 'shoeboxe gifts' as a children's evangelism tool and out of this simple ministry thousands of children have given thier lives to Jesus.

On behalf of all my brothers and sisters in Haiti I want to say a great

BIG thank you!

Thanks to BIDC who donated the warehouse again this year and Eric Hassel & Son and Seaboard Marine that donated the container and shipped it free of cost to Haiti. Thanks to Calvin Alkins our broker for organizing everything to ensure the container arrived safely in Haiti.

Thanks to the many volunteers that donated their valued time to enable us meet the deadline.

Thanks for the teams that came from YWAM and did an enormous amount of work.

Special thanks to Janelle and Daniel Noel, seen below left, who mobilized their Nazarene church to pack hundreds of boxes for the Goniave Nazarene children.

Thanks for your help in Haiti it was good to have a Bajan on board!!! < Click to view their distribution >

Thanks for the team in Haiti that have assisted with the distribution of these precious gifts.

We are praying that they will be a box of Hope in this very difficult time for Haiti having been so badly impacted by the recent earthquake.

Click to view the Make Jesus Smile shoebox distribution.

'Make Jesus Smile' means so much to a needy child. These children will recognize that someone, another child from within the Caribbean, whom they will probably never meet, cared enough to send a gift and a Christmas card to them.

Thanks to Charles F Broome who once again produced hundreds of beautifully wrapped and packed boxes.

By wrapping the lid of the box separate to the bottom and filling it with a range of small items suitable for a child of your chosen gender and age range, you can send a ‘shoe box of hope’ to Haiti

The Rock Christian School must get first prize for the best wrapped boxes. Theirs were most imaginative and focused on the Independence of Barbados and all things Bajan.

In June 2010 the 40 foot high cube container was packed to full capacity as over 500 more Make Jesus Smile shoeboxes were sent to Haiti.

These became Boxes of Hope after the earthquake as we were able to distribut into the tent cities and the places most needing a little ray of hope in this dismal time of dispair.

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