{"id":6388,"date":"2023-11-01T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/?p=6388"},"modified":"2023-11-09T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:05:18","slug":"soroptimists-fill-92-shoeboxes-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/2023\/11\/01\/soroptimists-fill-92-shoeboxes-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroptimists fill 92 Shoeboxes for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soroptimist International Medway and \u00a0Maidstone meet each year to fill shoe boxes, beautifully wrapped in Christmas paper to give to people in Eastern Europe \u00a0who face enormous difficulties through poverty, illness, disability etc but whose faces light up with joy when offered a Christmas <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Carol-McKeough-Sue-Daykin-and-Janet-GW-filling-shoeboxes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6392 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Carol-McKeough-Sue-Daykin-and-Janet-GW-filling-shoeboxes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Carol-McKeough-Sue-Daykin-and-Janet-GW-filling-shoeboxes.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Carol-McKeough-Sue-Daykin-and-Janet-GW-filling-shoeboxes-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a> present.<\/p>\n<p>The Soroptimist club assembled 92 Boxes of Love \u00a0this year which will go out to Ukraine to those affected by the war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Stella-Barnes-labelling-remainder-of-shoeboxes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6391 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Stella-Barnes-labelling-remainder-of-shoeboxes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Stella-Barnes-labelling-remainder-of-shoeboxes.jpg 877w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Stella-Barnes-labelling-remainder-of-shoeboxes-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>The boxes are filled with practical items like toiletries, stationery, warm hats, scarves, gloves and socks and topped up with a toy and sweets.\u00a0 Even the practical items, which we take for granted, are greeted with absolute delight.\u00a0 However, we are <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Successful-Evening-Filling-Shoeboxes-23-10-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6393 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Successful-Evening-Filling-Shoeboxes-23-10-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Successful-Evening-Filling-Shoeboxes-23-10-23.jpg 626w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/Successful-Evening-Filling-Shoeboxes-23-10-23-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>told by Blythswood Care, the charity which distributes the boxes, that the pleasure they get from the gift is not only from its contents but from the display of care and love that has gone into it.<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/First-delivery-of-68-shoeboxes-to-Collection-Point-24-10-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6390 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/First-delivery-of-68-shoeboxes-to-Collection-Point-24-10-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/First-delivery-of-68-shoeboxes-to-Collection-Point-24-10-23.jpg 659w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/11\/First-delivery-of-68-shoeboxes-to-Collection-Point-24-10-23-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to know more about Soroptimists and their work go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\">www.sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone<\/a>\u00a0or simply google Medway and Maidstone Soroptimists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soroptimist International Medway and \u00a0Maidstone meet each year to fill shoe boxes, beautifully wrapped 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