Alex received a shoe box from Operation Christmas Child one year after arriving at the orphanage and remembers being so excited to have a gift to call his own. Softening the walls of bitterness and pain that the genocide instilled in Alex, the shoe box gift sowed seeds of hope and love that he desperately needed.
Alex kupokea sanduku kiatu kutoka Operesheni Krismasi Mtoto ya mwaka mmoja baada ya kuwasili katika kituo cha watoto yatima na anakumbuka kuwa hivyo msisimko kuwa na zawadi kuwaita yake mwenyewe. Softening kuta za uchungu na maumivu kwamba mauaji ya kimbari instilled katika Alex, kiatu sanduku zawadi akipanda mbegu za matumaini na upendo kuwa yeye desperately zinahitajika.