Christmas Shoeboxes:  a simple project with a profound impact

The Christmas shoe box ministry is a highlight of the year and makes a profound impact on the receiving families, but we can't do it without you. It's our friends all over the US and people like you, fill shoe boxes with small toys and necessities.  Cuirim Outreach gathers these boxes and gives them to grateful children in our areas of ministry. The shoe boxes go to Navojoa and Nogales, MX.

Your box will travel to either Nogales or Navojoa, a town about eight hours south of our center in Nogales, Mexico.  Last year, these boxes were the center piece of our evangelistic outreach to well over 600 people.  Check out last year’s pictures on the Cuirim Outreach facebook page. 

How to proceed:

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  • Get your shoe box (uniform brown boxes 4” x 4” x 8”). Uline.com sells them, or email Kirsten Donohue at cuirim@gmail.com

  • Choose whether you are filling a box for a Boy or Girl and the age of the child. Write on the box "BOY/Niño" or "GIRL/Niña" and the age range 2-4, 5-9, 10-14. Please mark the age on all boxes.

  • Purchase items from the list below. Please purchase only items that are listed, no candy/food/toothpaste. Please fill your box to the brim.

  • Fold your box closed. Do not tape.

    • If you are shipping several boxes or many, please send them in a 18x16 Medium sized shipping box. You can find these at Lowes. Drop your shoe box off at collection location or mail it to the Cuirim UPS Mailbox (CUIRIM OUTREACH 190 W Continental Ste. #216-102, Green Valley, AZ 85622). All boxes should be shipped by December 6th. If you are coordinating a large gorup of presents being shipped together the suggested donation is $10 for shipping.

Items you can put inside (boxes 4” x 4” x 8” in size): 

  • 1 child’s toothbrush

  • Pens, pencils, small box of crayons

  • Pencil sharpener or eraser

  • As many small toys as can fit in the box (matchbox car, bouncy balls, hair accessories, tiny plush toys)

  • New children’s socks. Don’t worry about the size. If the size doesn’t fit the child who opens the box, he will trade with another child for a size that fits.

  • For older children/teens please consider t-shirts, pencils/pens, earphones, toothbrush, hair ties, etc.

*Please don’t send candy or toothpaste in the boxes.  It can attract bugs during the transport in Mexico.