By Tanya Harvey | Chairperson
Over the past year we have had the immense privilege and joy of gifting and fitting more than 300 children in 25 schools into new school uniforms and underwear. It is difficult to articulate the depth of joy that we get to experience on our visits to our Valley schools when delivering and fitting uniforms. Whilst our greatest enjoyment comes from our Junior primary school aged children, the greatest impact that we experienced this past year was a recent visit to a High School. The state of these learners’ uniforms was appalling and whilst we only reached a small few (25 learners) with uniforms, we were keenly aware of the impact of these uniforms to keep them in school.
The Pass The Panties brand achieves a wonderful buy in and support from local privileged and private schoolchildren who get involved in donating, packing and distributing the underwear. The children and their parents thus start to appreciate the joy of giving, as well as seeing for themselves the privilege of their educational facilities.
Many of the schools we visit are deeply rural and sometimes inaccessible if there has been bad weather. One school is only reached by a single road which crosses rivers 7 times and the bridges always become flooded when it rains heavily.
When a private school in Hillcrest was replacing its' jungle gym earlier in the year our Schools Fund team arranged to have the old equipment installed in two disadvantaged primary schools which had enough land for the installation and whose teachers and leaders were felt to be of the necessary calibre to ensure the safety of the children who had never used such equipment before.
It is now nearly the end of this school year so distrubution of uniforms has slowed down considerably. Embocraft are busy making hundreds if not thousands of pairs of underwear thanks to a large donation of material from a local company, and we are hoping for donations to arrive ready for us to start ordering uniforms for the new school year in January.
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