TEAM HOPE

That quick and easy #SecretSanta 🎅 gift that will make a lasting difference! 🌟🌟 Send a Christmas Shoebox with a click today 🎅🎄🎁💝 https://lnkd.in/eVMrpHGM

💌 A heartfelt thank you to the Cognizant Cork team for their support of our Christmas Shoebox Appeal! Your dedication to giving back is helping us share love and kindness with children around the world. We’re so grateful to have you on our team this holiday season! #ThankYou #CommunityLove #HolidayImpact

🌟 A huge thank you to Irma Karpaviciute and the entire AVI-SPL UK & Ireland team for joining us in our mission to make this holiday season brighter! Your participation in our Christmas Shoebox Appeal is a beautiful reminder of the power of kindness. Together, we’re making a difference! #HolidayMagic #CommunitySpirit #GivingBack

What a difference a few days can make. 5 months in post I was already fully enthused and committed to TEAM HOPE vision and mission. However after a privelged few days as part of a small team distributing Christmas Shoeboxes in Romania with our partners there, I am beyond moved. It’s been such a mxiture of intense emotion…seeing children living in an EU country in such abject poverty, worse than I’d ever imagined. To experience their joy in receipt of a shoebox filled with items we take for granted (soap,toothpaste,pens, and paper) has been beyond humbling..maybe their joy is not just the physical gift but that someone has stepped across their threshold, strangers from across the water, and maybe just maybe that brings them Hope for a brighter tomorrow .i have tried to capture the essence of the few days below in short reel At this time of abundance, maybe it is even more poignant to think of those with so little, and if you would like to help ..it’s not too late..the online shoeboxes will be helping children in Rwanda and Kenya this year https://lnkd.in/eYYSZE7w https://lnkd.in/eTE6i8Pk

Too busy to shop but still want to give back? 🎁 With just a few clicks, you can build Christmas Shoeboxes on behalf of your whole team. 👉 It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s impactful. Spread joy this holiday season—one gift at a time. https://lnkd.in/eVMrpHGM

That quick and easy #SecretSanta 🎅 gift that will make a lasting difference! 🌟🌟 Send a Christmas Shoebox with a click today 🎅🎄🥰🎁 https://lnkd.in/eVMrpHGM

Want to make this Christmas unforgettable? Encourage your team to take part in the Online Christmas Shoebox Appeal! 🎁 It’s quick, impactful, and spreads joy to children who need it most. Let’s make every gift count this holiday season. 💌 https://lnkd.in/eVMrpHGM

Our South Dublin Christmas Shoebox Centre has completed their amazing work and sent off an incredible 13,345 shoe boxes which are in their way to Malawi and Albania! 🌟 Our incredible volunteers would like us to also mention a few key companies who helped to make it all happen! Abbott, AIB, Aviva, Dell Technologies, Elavon Europe, EY, Google, Identity Digital Inc., Mastercard, NEWSIRE, PTSB, Sherry FitzGerald, SIRO, TikTok, Vodafone Foundation, Woodie's, WP Engine, Lidl Ireland, CALCO IRELAND LTD, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Opus Print & Promotions. A huge thank you on behalf of every one of the 13,345 children you are bringing joy and hope to this Christmas.

A huge thank you to Stefan Mooney, Lisa O Donoghue Assoc SCSI RICS, Simone Le Breton, Rebecca Breen and the entire team I-RES and Murphy Mulhall for donating this incredible space to us in Tallaght for the Chrsitmas Shoebox Appeal 🎄🌟 and to Sara Kennedy Uplift Marketing Ireland for helping to promote the Christmas Shoebox Appeal within the I-RES family. 🎁 👏 What an incredible partnership, going above and beyond to make children smile this Christmas!

4 months ago, this journey with TEAM HOPE began as their new CEO, and what I’ve witnessed the last few months has fully reinforced that I’m where I’m supposed to be..that rare feeling we get just a few times in life whether it’s a place, with a person and just very occasionally with a job..call it providence or whatever your belief is. I had it when I arrived from Canada to a wee grace filled Island in Donegal Lough Derg, The Sanctuary of St Patrick and was fortunate to also have the right person in Prior Richard Mohan..and on eve of my first overseas trip with Team Hope, that same wonderful, sometimes unnerving feeling is well and truly stirred within me. Off to some of the poorest parts of Romania in the morning to experience first hand how the kindness of strangers can make a real difference to a child who will experience joy when they receive their Christmas Shoebox but more importantly hope that someone who doesn’t even know them, believes in them….and most often the Christmas shoeboxes have been packed by a child so that hand of friendship across the continents has huge benefit for both the child donor and recipient. Media love to flood our news feed with the tho very worst of humanity but there is so much good and that too should make the news, especially at this time of year..schools, churches, businesses, volunteers, sports teams and social clubs, selfless individuals whether they be knitting or driving a van..and it’s there in abundance..I’ll not apologise for the long post and will unashamedly add a plug for the chance to still donate an online Christmas shoebox which we make sure will go to thousands of children in Rwanda and Kenya..you’ve got til Christmas Eve to get involved. Thanks also to friends and family who have supported me on this new chapter ..you know who you are and it’s meant the world💚and to the many who’ve supported Team Hope..huge thanks to all who have already supported this years Christmas Shoebox Appeal