Ever wonder why OCC requests $7 for each box? Where is that $7 used for? Well, here's a breakdown for the 4,900,000 shoe boxes from the U.S.:

Delivery by semi from 315 collection centers to 9 processing centers
Leasing of 9 processing centers at $80,000-100,000 per site
Delivery by 3,300, 20x8x8' overseas shipping containers at approx. $3,000-5,000/container
Cost of cartons, brochures, DVDs. Mailbox Club discipleship materials, booklets, bibles etc.
Administration costs of less than 10%, one of the lowest
Publicity & marketing costs

Actually, OCC total international costs for 2006 for 7.2m boxes were $145,700,000 or approx. $20/box when all the costs are factored in. Avg. giving for 2008 was $5.17/box. OCC has some very generous supporters!

The OCC project doesn't stop when the shoe box is distributed; follow up discipleship includes lessons and a Bible for each child that graduates. Last yr. over 1,000,000 children graduated.