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'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

 

This kind act of generosity will bring joy, hope and a little of God’s love into a desperately poor situation and can cause both the children who send the gifts and those who receive them to remember the true meaning of Christmas.

 

Make Jesus Smile shoeboxes

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

Seen below some of the boxes beautifully decorated by some of the Pre Primary School children. This could become part of the art program at school.

The deadline for the shoeboxes is the middle of November 2009 and BIDC have donated a warehouse at 1B1 Newton Industrial Estate, Christ Church, Barbados where boxes can be delivered.

Thank you BIDC!

Seen below some of the boxes beautifully decorated by some of the Pre Primary School children.
Thanks to the students from the UWI. We need your help again this year.

From mid November we will need assistance from your Youth Group and Women’s Ministry to assist us to sort and pack shoeboxes at the Newton warehouse in preparation to shipping early December.

Thanks to the students from the UWI. We need your help again this year.

Special thanks to corporate Barbados who supported our efforts by supplying us with wrapping paper, toiletries, school supplies, toys and children’s clothes.

In 2008 Eric Hassel and Son and Seaboard Marine supplied us with a 40’ container and shipped it packed full to Haiti with not only shoeboxes but numerous items too many to mention. THANK YOU!

Last year Eric Hassel and Son and Seaboard Marine supplied us with a 40’ container and shipped it packed full to Haiti with not only shoeboxes but numerous items too many to mention. THANK YOU!


 

In December 2008 a 40-foot container packed with gifts ranging from toys and sweets to a cement mixer and electricity generators were sent to Haiti as a Christmas gift from the children of Barbados. < Read more >

The distribution of over 2,000 shoeboxes took over 7 weeks and resulted in 17 Children's Outreach Parties.

Enabling us to bring the Salvation message through the Kids EE program.

Praise be to God these children are now photographed and documented and are preparing to join the Haiti Child Sponsorship Programme.

Jenny seen here distributing the Make Jesus Smile shos.ebox gifts to the United Children's Ministry in Bon Repos.

Click on each thumbnail below to visit the Haiti Children Outreach Parties.

Methodist Church Petit Gouve St Marc - Maranatha Ministry Jacmel Community Party Bon Repos - Yolanda Thurvil Foundation Upper Room Orphanage  
Jacmel - Restoration Ministries Haiti Sponsored Party Heart for Haiti school Jacmel - Children on the database party Heart for Haiti Children's Village YWAM Goniave
Les Canes - Wesleyan Church Jacmel   De Carrinage - Methodist school Nazarine Church- Jacmel

United Caribbean Trust has a deep desire to be an expression of the love of Christ on earth, bringing hope to children in Haiti and Dominica responding to meet the holistic needs of the child – physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Click to view the children of the Jacmel Nazarene church

Special thanks to the Sunday Schools tat became involved, seen here the little ones from Abundant Life.

Special thanks to the Sunday Schools that became involved, seen here the little ones from Abundant Life.

Thanks to BIDC for donating the warehouse at Newton Industrial Estate which enabled us to sort and pack over 2,000 shoeboxes for the children of Haiti for Christmas 2008.

Praise be to God, to Him be the Glory.

Thanks to the BIDC for donating the warehouse
Thanks to the BIDC for donating the warehouse Thanks to the BIDC for donating the warehouse
Thanks to the BIDC for donating the warehouse
Thanks to the volunteers, including University of the West Indies students who came and helped with the sorting and packing of hundreds of shoeboxes
The volunteers, including University of the West Indies students
The volunteers, including University of the West Indies students The volunteers, including University of the West Indies students The volunteers, including University of the West Indies students

The Make Jesus Smile shoebox distribution to schools and churches continued to the beginning of February 2009. Praise God 17 children's Outreach Parties took place and the Salvation message was brought using the Kids EE programme.

Seen here at the Jacmel Nazarene Church Party

Upper Room Orphanage
Yolanda Thurvil Foundation
Heart for Haiti Children's Village
Upper Room Orphanage

We want Make Jesus Smile to be much more than a shoe box ministry, receiving this gift means so much to the Haitian children.

Seen here Jenny Tryhane, Founder of United Caribbean Trust with children of People's Cathedral Primary School last Easter.

. Peoples Cathedral  children

 

Thanks to Charles F Broom who packed almost 300 boxes this Christmas.

Just knowing that someone, from within the Caribbean, whom they will probable never meet, cared. Your efforts will bring joy, hope and a little of God’s love into a desperately poor situation, remembering the true meaning of Christmas...GIVING.

Thanks to Charles F Broom who packed almost 300 boxes this Christmas.

Seen here the Head boy Nicholas Rose and Paige Wills the Head girl from Wills Primary School at CBC Morning Barbados, on Universal Children's Day November 20th 2007, sharing with the Barbadian public how good it was to help the children in Barbados and encouraging them to also get involved.

Wills Primary School

UCT's Make Jesus Smile shoe box project has been a great success and it has proven that the children on Barbados and we believe the Caribbean enjoy actively helping children that are less privileged than them.

A special thanks to all the 'hands of help' that helped to sort the boxes and get them ready for shipping, a great big thanks to DaCosta Manning for donating the warehouse for our use for the Christmas 2007 project.

Out of this has been birthed the idea to introduce the project into the Community Centres and into the School Summer Camp.

Thanks to the Caribbean Development Bank After School Care 'All Stars Club' who did a wonderful job on shoe boxes this Christmas.

We are now looking to extend our Make Jesus Smile shoe box ministry into a Community Based Mitigation Programme, introducing a similar project called Make Jesus Smile Baby Boxes -

These boxes will be packed during the school holidays and stockpiled leading up to the hurricane season.

Secondary Schools got involved this Christmas, seen here Harrison's College leading the way.

Whilst at the Community Centre the children will be taught a simple but efficient Disaster Mitigation programme

Secondary Schools got involved this Christmas, seen here Harrison's College leading the way.

Taking part is so easy - by simply filling a shoe box with a range of small items suitable for a child of your chosen gender and age range, you can send a ‘box of hope’ to Haiti, Honduras, Dominica and Carriacou this Christmas and New Year.

Please ensure that you wrap the lid separately to the bottom and put a rubber band around the finished box.

Make Jesus Smile shoeboxes

CLICK to see what to put in your shoe box

CLICK to learn how to pack your shoe box

Happy Christmas DominicaOur relationship with trusted in-country partners in Dominica and Haiti ensures that each box is delivered to a needy child.

This will be photo documented and showcased on the web.

A special thanks to the schools of Barbados that have got involved in this pilot project.

Contact us if you want to get involved in the Christmas project united_caribbean@yahoo.com

UNITED CARIBBEAN TRUST BARBADOS BANK ACCOUNTS:

First Caribbean International Bank Bds Ltd

Super Centre Complex, Warrens, St. Michael

Barbados

Account number 1001092544

Swift Code FCIBBBBB

He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward him for what he has done. Proverbs 19:17

 
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