About Operation Christmas Child: Amazing Facts

• It is the world's largest Christmas project.
• This year, Operation Christmas Child will hand-deliver some 8 million shoe box gifts to hurting kids worldwide.
• If the 8 million shoe boxes collected in 2010 are stacked on top of each other, they would stand 137 times higher than Mt. Everest.
• The number of children who have received Operation Christmas Child shoe box gifts since 1993 exceeds the populations of Australia and South Africa combined.
• Operation Christmas Child has generated more than 3,645 miles of smiles since 1993 - enough smiles to reach from Anchorage to Atlanta.
• Operation Christmas Child uses whatever means necessary - truck, boat, plane, helicopter, donkey, dog sled, even elephant-to bring shoe boxes to children in more than 100 countries.
• Operation Christmas Child uses tracking technology that allows donors to "follow your box" to find out the destination country where it will be hand-delivered to a child in need.
• U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have all packed Operation Christmas Child shoe box gifts for children in need.
• There are more than 500,000 Operation Christmas Child volunteers worldwide.