Children are boxing clever (From Worcester News)
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Children are boxing clever
11:20pm Friday 3rd February 2012 in News
GIMME SHELTER: Abbey Park pupils Sophie Hill, Caitlin Haskins, Luis Bacon, Cole Andrews and Sam Elcocks inside the shelter box tent with the rotary’s Nathan John.
PUPILS at Abbey Park First School, Pershore, are teaming up with their local Rotary club to raise money to buy a shelter box.
A shelter box provides shelter, warmth and survival equipment to people around the world made homeless by natural disasters while they rebuild their homes.
Each box contains a tent large enough to provide shelter for an extended family and essential items such as water containers and purification equipment, mo-squito nets, cooking stoves and blankets.
To raise money for the boxes the children, along with members of Pershore Rotary Club, will be holding a bring and buy sale later this month selling their unwanted toys and DVDs.
Staff and children came up with the idea after the rotary club erected a shelter box tent in the school’s main hall during a community open day.
Headteacher David John-son said: “We are always looking for opportunities to raise the children’s awareness of those in the world who are less fortunate than ourselves.
“Each box is given a unique reference number so we will be able to find out when and where our box has been sent.”
