Evie's Christmas food bank delivery will help families in Motherwell enjoy better times

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A caring six-year-old girl from Motherwell has shown the true spirit of Christmas by collecting hundreds of food items for people in need.Evie Thompson, a P2 pupil at Knowetop Primary, set out to collect for Motherwell Food Bank at the Maranatha Centre with an initial target of gathering 100 items in a three-week period.The youngster smashed that total and this week handed over more than 350 items to Andrew Ewart at the centre in Glencairn Street, which is run by Clyde Valley Community Church.Evie decided to help people who may be struggling through the festive period after a chat with her mum, Emma Thompson.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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And she said to me, ‘Oh Mummy, there are lots of wee boys and girls who are not going to have a Christmas like us’.“So we were talking about it and she asked if she could sell some of her toys.

I said, absolutely!“Then we were in the car driving to gymnastics and there were lots of people queuing for the food bank and Evie asked what it was, and I explained to her and she said she wanted to collect for them.“When we got home she disappeared for an hour and then came back with a poster she had made, and it had pictures of different things and said, ‘Collect 100 items’.“I said