This weekend the Crisis Response Team have been back to Hatay, Turkey to provide the next level of support to orphaned and vulnerable children we made contact with during our first and second deployments.
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Thank you to our knitters who have continued to send in the most amazing blankets over lockdown
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We had a fab visit from Nottingham Girls’ High School this morning.
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So many gorgeous blankets are made lovingly by generous folk around the UK (and even further afield).
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Our Global Expedition team travelled to Moldova for the Keep a Child Warm 2019 distribution where they kitted out around 1600 children for winter. The lovely thing about our distribution expedition is having the wonderful opportunity to meet each child who receives a winter kit.
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Imagine: driving around one third of the world, across mountains and deserts, in a tiny car that you bought at a scrapyard… with no planned routes, no guarantee of not breaking down, and no back up plans!
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It’s that time of year again! For the eighth year running we set off to Chilwell Sixth form for our packing week.
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We are lucky enough to have support from schools all across the UK. This week has involved hundreds of students, both around the UK and at our warehouse in Notts.
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Over 600 boxes of warm winter clothing are now on their way to Moldova.
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These students write about how their time at Operation Orphan has been a really great experience for our Duke of Edinburgh award.
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The Duke of Edinburgh Award is a youth awards programme founded in the United Kingdom in 1956 by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
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This week we were delighted to have David Newlove join us here in Nottingham. David was one of the 12 runners who took part in the Hope Alive Tour in April.
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We had been invited to talk to a group of ladies at their afternoon monthly meeting about our part in Keep a Child Warm.
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Having finished my A levels in June this year, I was then faced with 3 months of freedom from studying before starting university. I’m not someone to sit back and relax for three months, despite the stress and hard work that the last two years of college threw at me, so I was keen to see if there was some way I could volunteer for Operation Orphan.
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The summer of 2016 finally arrived just in time for Packing Week, as we predicted it would! With temperatures in the 30’s we worried about how the team would cope but soon realised that we didn’t need to worry at all!
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With the busy time in the warehouse as we approach packing week for Keep a Child Warm we wanted to celebrate all the wonderful people who have been helping us.
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We were thrilled to have John and Julia Odie with us on Monday. Julia, with help from her husband and a whole heap of friends, has been collecting warm winter clothing for the last few months.
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Without our amazing volunteers, we would be nothing! It’s because of the investment and time people give to Operation Orphan that we are capable of so much.
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Before this week I had never realised how much effort went into charity operations. Imagine yourself giving to charity; a wardrobe clear-out and not a lot more.
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It’s been a busy week! 60 people took an entire day to sort a mountain of clothing which we then saw grow again to the same size – a little demoralising at the time, but amazing to have so many donations!
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