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Samaritan's Purse: Operation Christmas Child

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Operation Christmas Child

Children around the world are homeless,hungry,in orphanages,and have nothing to have fun with. Some children blame god for everything and that's not good, so a group of people got together and made samaritan's Purse and that made Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas child is for the children who don’t have anything or little to nothing and living in a very bad environment like a dump or landfill. This happens around the world and Samaritan's Purse is trying to stop it. They let the children know that they are loved and they are the future.

The children that are homeless are living on the street and people just don’t worry about them on the street. They also would live in landfills looking for things …show more content…

come with the shoeboxes the kids rejoice and happy to have thing to care for play with and help hygiene purposes and clothes to wear and have to survive a cold night. In one landfill, an adult asked a little girl, “What was your favorite gift that you got in your shoebox?” and the girl said, “A toothbrush.”. the adult thought, “wow, a toothbrush. Their was so much more in that shoebox and she picks a toothbrush.”.

Kids are in orphanages because parents are in jail, dead, or just could not take care of them.
A girl named Veronica and her brother and sister were taken to an orphanage due to their mother going to jail with a sentence of 40 years. She thought that god did not love her because she said that it should not happen. their dad was in jail for a robbery and their new baby brother had died in a accident. When she received a shoebox and a letter is in it. It said, “hi! My name is Isobel Lyttle. I live in Houston,
TX. It is really hot here and never snows. I’m eleven years old. My birthday is June 24. We are praying for all of you and hope you have a good christmas season.” And she was happy and started to help out the cause.

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