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Wye Valley Interact Club
support the Philippines
With all the news being about the dreadful weather and flooding it’s easy to
forget the impossible conditions that still exist in the Philippines following
the disaster there last year.
The sixth form students who make up the Interact Club (young Rotary)
decided before Christmas that some action was needed. A decision was
taken to raise funds for a Shelter Box to support the disaster relief
A Shelter Box is basically a box containing everything you need to keep up to
10 people alive when they have lost everything. There is a tent, cutlery, plates
tools, bedding and much more. When the box is empty it is also used as a
water purification tank providing safe drinking water where there is none.
To raise this money a range of fund raising activities took place including
the Interactors supporting Bourne End and Cookham Rotary Club with their
around the houses collecting with Father Christmas (did you see him this
year?). The end result was sufficient funds to buy a box and in the picture
you can see Interact President India handing over their cheque to Rotary
Club President Maureen Campbell in the presence of the Interact Club
members and acting Head Teacher Andrea Jacobson.
In due course the journey of their box will be tracked online against it’s
unique reference number so the school will be a