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Last month, all 2,000 members of staff in Oxford Health’s Community Services Directorate received a gift of some sunflower seeds and a letter of recognition, all delivered to them at home. It was to thank them for their tremendous commitment to patients and each other throughout the hardest of years. The idea for ‘Operation Sunflower’ came from Lucia Winrow, Deputy Director of Neighbourhood Teams, who co-ordinated the initiative, and is made possible with support from Oxford Health Charity, and our volunteers who packed and sent the gifts.
‘Operation Sunflower’ was made possible with the support from Oxford Health Charity, and our volunteers who packed and sent the gifts.
Volunteer Lilly Sabir got her children Ibrahim,9, (from left), Hanaa- Sophiya, 11 and Jeevan-Ali, 10, to help .
Community Directorate Service Director, Emma Leaver said, “We wanted to find a way of spreading some joy and a signal of hope to our staff who have been nothing short of tremendous throughout this pandemic. It’s been a tough year for sure. However, we have learnt a lot and developed new ways of working that have helped us to cope. Our senior team has been regularly humbled by our staff and their commitment to our patients and to each other.” Our ever resourceful volunteer team was very supportive and helped us bring this project to life in a very short span of 4-5 days. We had targeted this project at our volunteers who were shielding and had a total of nine volunteers helping us with the packing, including Charles who has been shielding since March 2020 and Lilly, a new volunteer, who also got her children involved.
Volunteer Charles Russell packed over 500 sunflower seed and thank you letter packages with his wife Fran .
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