Boxes of comfort
Date published: 21 January 2009
KIND HEARTS . . . Vice-chairman Trevor Warren (fourth from left) with chairman Alan Noble and Emma Scott, from Life For A Life , and Polish volunteers
LITTLE comforts are winging their way to Polish soldiers serving alongside British troops in the Middle East.
Donations of toothpaste, shower gel, pens and notepaper have filled 500 boxes for the Polish troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Comfort Boxes have been put together by the Life for a Life Memorial Forests together with the Oldham branch of the Liaison of Ex-Service Associations and the Manchester/Oldham Association of Polish Ex-Combatants — there is a large Polish community in Oldham.
The groups have worked for months to put together the boxes filled with items from companies such as Rowntrees and Cussons, often hard to source abroad
More than 2,000 comfort boxes have already been sent to British forces serving across the world.
