Rotary Shoebox Appeal

The Rotary Shoebox Appeal in the run up to Christmas was a great success. The Rotary Shoebox Appeal was set up in 1994 to provide children of Lasi in north-east Romania with Christmas gifts. Since then, the scheme has become a national project supported not only by Rotary Clubs but by individuals, schools, companies and churches.  Gifts are now sent out throughout the year to many different countries in Central and Eastern Europe to to disadvantaged families and individuals of all ages.

Many students from different year groups brought along very thoughtful and exciting gifts to put into their shoeboxes. A big thank you to all who brought in gifts for the Appeal and to those who bought raffle tickets to help raise money for the boxes to be shipped – a total of £90 was raised. Members of 10 Henry and 13 Newton drew the tickets and the first prize of a non-uniform day was won by Harkeerat and his form 13 Pascal. The runner-up was Mohammed in 13 Euclid who won a big box of chocolates. All shoeboxes have now been packed and are ready for shipment. Thank you to members of 13 Newton who assisted in the sorting and packing of the shoeboxes and, in particular, to Simrat for his consistent effort over the different stages of collection and sorting processes.

Once again, a big thank you to all who participated and an extended word of thanks to parents, staff, family members and friends who donated gifts for the Appeal.