I must apologize for my poor blogging skills over the last few months. We were busy collecting the last of the donations and I'm so excited to share that the Grade 8 class at Stratford Secondary School came in with a fantastic donation of over 1000 soccer items such as: jerseys, shorts, soccer balls and much more!! We are a bit behind our initial timeline of September but it was well worth waiting since we filled a 20ft container right to the top with school supplies and sporting goods. As well, we raised just short of $7000 and I'm so excited to see what improvements we can make with this money once we get over to Azia, Nigeria.
Gerry will be heading over to Nigeria next week to meet the container at the shipping depot and start making arrangements to get the materials down to Azia. I will be heading over to Nigeria on January 2nd for 3 weeks to roll out the supplies to the school children so I promise to keep updating the blog while I'm in Nigeria so you can keep track of our progress.
I want to thank each and every one of you who donated to this amazing cause. We FAR exceeded my initial project goal of 200 backpacks filled with school supplies and I am truly grateful for everyone's generosity and support - this was an amazing experience for me and I am committed to keep going and helping less fortunate children all over the world!! In fact, our next fundraising project is a charity golf tournament in May with the proceeds going to help build a school for orphaned children in Haiti.
Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday season and please take a moment to ackowledge yourselves for your contribution to the 1500 children we are working with on this project! This is a great initiative and we should all be very proud of ourselves.
Much Love,
Sue
You go girl!
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