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

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.

A Project

Instead of whining and disapproving as most kids would, Tyrel was different. He took on the project with excitement and couldn’t wait to get started.

He also took an admirable approach to the task, deciding to create a shoe-box that would make the child on the receiving end gasp with surprise and cheer with glee.