John Paul College students have been stuffing shoe boxes full of goodies to send as Christmas presents for under-privileged children.
International Christian organisation Samaritan's Purse has for decades run Operation Christmas Child which sees the shoeboxes delivered as Christmas presents to children in third-world countries.
A teacher at the school,
Karen Bloomfield, and her husband, Stephen, have been involved with the cause since moving to New Zealand in 2005.
Mrs Bloomfield said that for the past five years the John Paul College community had started getting behind the cause as well.
She said this year, because of tough economic times, they had set a goal of filling 50 boxes, even though they received more than that last year.