I got a charity shoebox as a child and now my own kids send them for Christmas

As a child in war-torn Croatia, Josipa was delighted to receive a charity Christmas shoebox. She is now living in Ireland and is helping her children to pack Team Hope shoeboxes 

Josipa Akinradewo and her husband Kunle with their children Hanna and Jakov, working on the Team Hope Shoeboxes. Picture: Eamon Ward

In her make-up purse Kilrush-based Josipa Akinradewo always carries a pair of pink scissors.

“I can’t believe they still work,” says the Croatian native, who has been living in Ireland for six years.