MORE than a hundred youngsters in poverty-stricken countries will be able to enjoy a happier Christmas this year, thanks to kind-hearted youngsters at a County Durham school.
Pupils from Oakley Cross Primary School, in West Auckland, have been collecting gifts for a shoebox appeal, and will send them off today.
Dozens of shoeboxes were filled up with gifts for under-privileged children in countries such as Romania.
They were filled with items such as toothbrushes, sweets, soap and toothpaste, and the children also enjoyed wrapping up the boxes in colouful paper.
Pupil Gemma Penberthy, eight, said: "We wanted to help because I know that children in other countries don't get as much."
Sophie Nelson, aged nine, added: "We are sending them to places where the earthquakes and tsunami have hit, where people will not have things like we do."
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