Here are some lovely memories of the kind-hearted people from the past 20 years filling boxes with treats and presents for others.
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1. Armthorpe Shaw Wood Infants
Pupils Emily Firbank, aged seven, Ellana Storr, Meghan Hughes, Jacob Bailey, all aged six, and Callum Moses, aged five, are pictured with some of the shoeboxes in 2002
Photo: Steve Taylor
2. Hungerhill School
Hungerhill School helped two Christmas charities in 2002 the Samaritan's Purse "Operation Christmas Child" Shoebox Appeal and the Children In Distress "Life in a Box"-small change equals big difference appeal. Our picture shows pupils, from left, Vicky Johnson, aged 12, Jonathan Preston and Charlotte Fowkes, both aged 11, with some of the boxes and donations.
Photo: Steve Taylor
3. Pix, Shaun Flannery. COPYRIGHT FREE PICTURE
Members of Doncaster Rovers FC launched Operation Christmas Child at the Yorkshire Outlet in 2003 Pictured with Outlet Manager Cheryl Primrose are L-R Justin Jackson, Gareth Owen, Paul Barnes & Tim Ryan.
Photo: Shaun Flannery
4. Doncaster Asda
Laura O'Donnell (left), of Dixon Motors press office, Malcolm Quinn, Dixon's Group CSI manager, and Doncaster Asda's events co-ordinator Dawn Cunningham, packed a trolley full of festive gifts as part of the Operation Christmas Child appeal in 2003
Photo: Steve Taylor