Boy Sends Charity Shoebox Across The World, 11 Years Later It Comes Back

Published on 01/02/2019
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The world is massive and vast, and in the same breath it is tiny and finite. A boy living on one side of the world sends a gift of charity to the other side of the Earth and completely forgets about it. But his kind-hearted gift doesn’t just serves as charity; it becomes more… a whole lot more.

A Chance Message

In 2011 Tyrel Wolfe received an email that made no sense to him. The American 20-something year-old got a Facebook message from a girl who claimed she had a connection to him, but he was skeptical.

A Chance Message

A Chance Message

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How It All Began

Let’s roll back a few years to get a better picture of how this all started. In 2000, Tyrel Wolfe was just a boy of eleven years living in Midville, Idaho. His parents encouraged him to take part in a special charity drive called “Operation Christmas Child”. The global charity organization, Samaritan’s Purse, organized a Christmas drive to fill shoe boxes with toys and necessities for underprivileged kids in other countries.

How It All Began

How It All Began

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