Rotorua is being encouraged to share the love and cheer to children in other countries this Christmas by filling up shoe boxes with items which will bring them joy.
Operation Christmas Child is now under way for 2019, with the community able to pick up shoe boxes and start collecting items.
Boxes today contain something to wear, something educational, something for hygiene, something to play with, something special and something to love.
Jan Bellingham, co-ordinator for Rotorua, says the boxes are going to the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Cambodia.
She says there were about 600 boxes collected from Rotorua last year, and they were hoping to get more this year.