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.
   

• Lined up end-to-end, the 69 million shoe boxes collected since 1993 would stretch from Honolulu to Hong Kong!
   

•  If all 69 million children who have received shoe boxes since 1993 stood hand-in-hand, they would form a line stretching 47,725 miles-enough to reach around the world more than one and a half times.

   

• Operation Christmas Child has generated more than 3,267 miles of smiles since 1993-enough smiles to reach from Anchorage to Orlando.
   

• Operation Christmas Child uses whatever means necessary-truck, boat, plane, helicopter, donkey, dog sled, even camel-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 the destination country where it will be hand-delivered to a child in need.
    

• U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have all packed Operation Christmas Child shoe box gifts for children in need.
  
  

• To wrap each of the 8 million shoe boxes packed this year would require an estimated 470,588 rolls of wrapping paper.
  
  

• There are more than half a million Operation Christmas Child volunteers worldwide.