Wrapping Your Gifts

We’ve received a few questions about wrapping the gifts. It’s easy and nothing to worry about.

First, wrap everything by item. We can all agree that it’s fun to open presents even if the present is a package of underwear. Wrap all the underwear in one package, all the socks in another, the toy in another and the candy in another. And so on.

Some people don’t wrap the backpack and some people do. It’s up to you. Those who don’t put many of the other wrapped gifts inside the backpack. It makes a nice compact place to put everything. But it’s completely up to you.

Label each gift with the sex of child the gift is for, the age of the child and the kind of gift it is including size if relevant. For example, “Boy, age 10, size 34 tennis shoes.” Or, “Girl, age 14, size 16 jacket.” For information on why we ask this, click here.

Then put all the gifts in any old trash bag and label it some way with the child’s name and the orphanage he or she is at. The outside wrapping doesn’t have to be pretty at this point. On Transnway Day we will put all the gifts into matching white plastic bags and then add labels with the child’s name and colored ribbons by orphanage. The important thing now is that we receive a strong bag from you with the gifts inside and some indication outside of who the bag is for and what orphanage the child is at.