16520TSUNAMI AID: CHILDREN at a Trowbridge nursery have been filling shoeboxes to help with the aid effort. More than 100 boxes have been brought in to Just Learning nursery, Paxcroft Mead, full of supplies.
Deputy manager Karina Benison said: "We put up a notice asking parents if they could fill a shoebox with school items, food, medical items and/or toiletries."
She said every child brought in a box and they even had people unconnected with the nursery bringing them in after the project was mentioned in the Wiltshire Times.
She said most of the children are too young to understand what happened in the devastated regions of Asia.
"Only the pre-school children are old enough to understand, on a very basic level. They know they are collecting for children that need something and who are not as lucky as them."
The nursery decided to hold the shoebox appeal after the Just Learning centre in Newbury came up with the idea.
The boxes have been collected and taken to a central depot in Wroughton.
The nursery will also hold a raffle on February 11 and have already had lots of prizes donated.
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