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A team from Green-Works is aiming to climb Mount Snowdon to raise funds for its Africa Appeal. We want to modernise schools and clinics in Waterloo, Sierra Leone, and any support you can give us is greatly received.
is officially the worst country in the world to be born. One in three children will die – usually from minor, preventable diseases – before their fifth birthday and average life expectancy is just 42 years.
the town where most of Green-Works furniture ends up- has a population of about 30,000 people who live in poverty. They have no clean running water, open sewers and electricity just two or three times a week. There is one health clinic – it has no doctor, and only a couple of nurses- and conditions are unsanitary and unhygienic. There are about 75 schools, but they lack any furniture, books or pens and other vital equipment for learning. Children often sit on the concrete and mud floors to learn and they have to pay to go to school. Their future could be bright- there is investment into but without as much as a basic education, local children will not be able to get the benefits that this investment brings. They and their families will be stuck in a cycle of poverty.
Green-Works is trying to improve the standard of education in by equipping schools with items that we take for granted. Desks and chairs allow children to learn in comfort, while cabinets provide a safe and dry storage area for books, notepads and other school equipment. We provide a unique solution to the problems presented from sending unwanted furniture to landfill, by storing it, raising funds to ship it, and delivering it to a place where it is needed, appreciated and more importantly, put to good use.
