Play and Sport Equipment

It was great fun here in the office on Wednesday as various parcels arrived containing the play and sport equipment that we will be taking with us to Umzimvubu. Thanks to some fantastic fundraising efforts we have purchased a parachute and accessory pack, skipping ropes and loads of different types of balls - footballs, playground balls, tennis balls etc including some oddly shaped balls that bounce all over the place. The aim is to use these whilst we are there so that we can play with the children that we meet and then to gift them to the local primary and secondary school when we leave.

At our final meeting last weekend we also saw some of the other gifts that people have been buying or been given. There is a lot of school equipment paper/pens/rubbers/rulers/geometry sets etc, some medical stuff, craft bits and so on. It was really lovely to see so much stuff and to know how gratefully it will be received. A couple of schools from Cornwall are also supplying some school stuff for us to take and we have also been promised some t-shirts from the Diocese and a local company.

Our next challenges are to pack it all up so that we can take it over between us, as well as think of a variety of gifts for our hosts, so that they don't end up with 13 tea towels!

But thank you so much to all who have been so generous, during our time we will ask what other items the project/school or Diocese needs and seek to use any surplus money that has been raised.

The pictures are of the extremely cute teddy bear and pig bean bags that form part of the parachute accessory pack.