How Courtney and Cameron created Christmas gifts for 120 children
The kind-hearted Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor students worked with Dolgellau schoolchildren to create and decorate gift boxes for youngsters who spent the festive period in hospital
Two Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor students worked with school pupils to create 120 Christmas gift boxes for children in hospital and in care.
Courtney Riches and Cameron Newman are both studying Level 3 Business Studies at the college’s Dolgellau campus.
In the run-up to Christmas, they collected donations and visited the Ysgol Bro Idris primary school sites, where they helped children to fill and decorate the gift boxes.
Courtney and Cameron then delivered the presents to children at Wrexham Maelor Hospital and to Wrexham Children’s Services.
Business lecturer Carys Davies said: “The students have worked so hard on this initiative.
“They went into the schools for five weeks, working with local school pupils to decorate and fill the boxes so that children in hospital and in care could receive Christmas presents.
“The boxes contained toys, games, sweets, colouring books and much more. All boxes were carefully filled with gender and age in mind, and then a label was put on each box to ensure they went to suitable children aged between newborn babies up to 11 years old.
“The students collected a lot of donations themselves, and the children at the Ysgol Bro Idris sites also contributed donations.
“I’m very proud of how hard Courtney and Cameron have worked, and how dedicated they have been right through to the end of this project.”
Jordan Edwards, of Wrexham Children’s Services, said: “The boxes were shared out between some of the social care teams within Wrexham Children’s Services.
“As we all know some of these children get very little for Christmas and these gifts were very much appreciated by all the children. Thank you to the students for such a special act of kindness.”
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