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Preparing for another Container load of school supplies to go to South Africa.

As most of you know, with the combined Rotary Clubs and Friends of Rotary, we have been involved in shipping containers of school supplies to Haiti and South Africa. http://middelburgrc.blogspot.ca/2013_07_01_archive.html

The school supplies are being donated by the Thames Valley and Maitland school boards where schools have been closed and they have no further use for some of the desks, chairs, books etc.

Up to date, there have been over 30 container loads shipped to the above countries where the need is very high as in many schools there, the students have to sit on the floor because they have no desks or chairs. 

The next container will be loaded in Norwich where we have loaded before, but there is more left to be loaded. At the moment, the loading is being planned for the end of October, as soon as we have the finances in place, we can set an exact date.

For each container the cost is around $5,000 and we have commitments of $3,000 this far.

We welcome any Rotary Clubs or Friends of Rotary who want to help us raise the funds, we do issue official tax receipts which you can use as a write off for donations.

We will keep you up to date on the progress.