The St Clair Catholic District School Board is helping to support kids in Africa and Haiti.
Surplus items have been collected from four former elementary schools: St. Vincent, St. Agnes, Our Lady of Fatima and St. Joseph Catholic schools in Chatham.
Six truckloads of items, including student chairs and desks, teachers’ desks and books are being donated through a partnership with Canadian Food for Children – Chatham-Kent.
“We are pleased to partner with Canadian Food for Children – Chatham-Kent in repurposing these surplus items for schools in Africa and Haiti, where they are desperately needed,” says Deb Crawford, Director of Education.
CFFC-CK was formed in 2007 and has been collecting and sending food, clothing, medical and school supplies and other needed items to the main warehouse in Mississauga. From there it is loaded into shipping containers and trucked to Halifax, for shipment to Africa; and the Port of Miami, for shipment to Haiti and South America. The volunteers of CFFC-CK have supported missions in such countries as Tanzania, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, Haiti and Zambia, among others.
