Our Story

The Christmas Box International partners with communities worldwide to prevent child abuse and improve the quality of life for at-risk children. These children are victims of abuse, neglect, trafficking, homelessness, or other risks no child should face.

Our mission is simple: every child deserves a childhood.

In 1996, founder and New York Times best-selling author Richard Paul Evans created a safe place for Utah’s children, a Christmas Box House, naming the charity after his first novel, The Christmas Box.

In 2018, we served 10,474 at-risk children. We have completed building our emergency children’s shelters, and we continue to grow our programs. Our programs aim to help at-risk youth by providing a Merry Christmas morning to serving teens transitioning out of foster care. We are always striving to do more, and we need your help.