Our 2010 Fun Camp volunteers will be heading to Jamaica on Saturday. They will be carrying suitcases and suitcases full of donated school supplies including over 100 backpacks, composition books, pencils, erasers, and black shoes (an expensive part of the school uniform without which a child cannot attend school). Donations have poured in over the last few weeks in generous response to email and Facebook appeals.

Thank you very much. Your donations will make the coming school year much more fruitful for the children of Hagley Gap. You have made it easier for them to concentrate on their school work since they will not have to worry about rationing notebook pages or dealing with a lost pencil and having no replacement. They can instead concentrate on leaning good English and math skills.

You may laugh at this, thinking that a pencil or a piece of paper are trivial matters but to a Hagley Gap child the loss of a pencil which may be her only pencil means that she will not be able to do her school work. The simple gift of a pencil at the beginning of the school year may change her entire year.

From the school kids of the Gap – Thank you many times over.

Cathy