Watford school children send Christmas gifts to Africa (From Watford Observer)

Watford school children send Christmas gifts to Africa

10:50am Wednesday 9th December 2009 in

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Kind-hearted local children have helped send more than 8,000 Christmas gifts to Africa.

Pupils at Stanborough Primary School and Kingswood Nursery, ably assisted by Mayor Dorothy Thornhill, helped pack piles of gift-filled shoe-boxes into a freight container – currently on its way to Zambia.

The gifts – 1,000 more than were sent last year – represent children from all over the UK and Ireland and will be gratefully received by their orphaned recipients.

Collected by members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, the gifts were taken by Watford-based charity the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA-UK) on the fist leg of their journey.

Mayor Thornhill, speaking earlier in the month, said: “I am immensely proud of what is done in the name of volunteering."