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Zimbabwe
Pandora’s Collective
in association with Connie Linder of
Insight
Creative Communications is gathering books and school supplies to send to
Zimbabwe. We are asking for your help in one of three ways.
1) Find a book and pass it on. This can be new, old, beloved. Remember it
will be going to someone who has almost nothing.
2) Fill a backpack with things a child would want and need for the first
day of school. This does not have to cost a lot, the dollar stores have lots of
inexpensive things that children love.
3) Sponsor a child. $75 will pay for school enrolment and supplies for an
entire year.
Doug Ante who works for Rotary International
is the coordinator of the shipment and makes sure everything is distributed at
the other end. Whatever you decide to do remember that somewhere a child will
benefit from your support and we thank you.
Doug also collects
medical supplies for Zimbabwe. If you can be of help in any capacity please let
us know.
For more information
contact Bonnie Nish -
blnish_pandoras@yahoo.ca
Press
Release
On Sunday April 23, 2006 the
Vancouver Public Library donated 825 boxes of books (they estimate that to
be 33,000 books!!!) to Zimbabwe via Pandora's Collective. Connie
Linder of
Insight
Creative Communications and Doug Ante of
Rotary International are the
founders of an on-going cause to help build literacy in Zimbabwe.
We are proud to be able to help them on this very important mission via our
Zimbabwe book drive.
We want to give a very special
thanks to our volunteers for all their brawn and careful packing -
Phyllis Bassett, Danielle Brandon, Catherine Cooper, Ali Denno, Becca Denno,
Mary Duffy, Trina Ferguson, Derek Johnson, Mary Konkin, Kunjdial, Cherie
Laurent, Rowan Lipkovits, James McCann, Jim McKnight, Paul McNeill, Brian
Nelson, Leanne Padgett, Kaya Revorti, Aliz Revorzi, Eryn Revorzi, Loretta
Revorzi, Steve Samis, Lorraine Strand, Tierney Wisnienski, Mike Wong and Buddy
Young.
And a special thank you to the
staff at VPL who really made this happen; Janice Douglas who never
gave up on this idea, Pauline Manton for all her great help through out
and Ed McNeilly for everything he did.
We want to thank John
Bandstra of Bandstra Trucking for not only donating his truck and men
but having them make three trips to accommodate all the books and for storing
them all until they can get to the warehouse in Abbotsford until August or off
in a container sooner. We also want to thank Frank Karsmaker of the
Mennonite Community who not only agreed to store all these books but moved
things around so they could take them now. And I have to give a special Thanks
to Albert Wongwho spent two hours of his time on Sunday sweating up a storm
to get those books loaded on pallets and shrink wrapped. Albert you rock!!!
And finally Lorraine Strand
we couldn’t have done this without you!!! You deserve a standing ovation!!!! You
organized the trunk, storage and driver!!! You are an amazing person!!! Thank
you, Thank You, Thank You!!!
~ Bonnie Nish and
Sita Carboni.
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