Helen O’Callaghan talks to pupils and teachers at a Co Cork school about a nationwide initiative that sends gift boxes to kids in less privileged parts of the world

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It has travelled more than 4,000km. Sixteen years have passed. It was like a message in a bottle but this was a gift in a shoebox.