Can you help? – from Audlem Printers

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Hi I have a very good friend who is collecting children's clothes, toys, nappies, bottles, anything that can be used by the poor babies and children in Tanzania. I could collect anything people have and store it until it is ready to go, a container is leaving the uk on 14 Feb, if anyone has anything could they please let me know at the Audlem Printers at the above contact address.

When I asked my friend Mick why he decided to collect the things, this was his reply:

Of course, as you know I prefer to travel the world on holiday rather than sit on a beach, we have been to a lot of countries that have poverty as a norm, india, Philippines, America, Africa I have also been to my local tip and seen what is dumped on a daily basis,.

I love recycling it saves the planet, I love even more re-using, I wanted to capture the annual dumping of things in October, these are the things that are got rid of to make way for new things for Christmas. If i could get things we no longer want and give them to people that are desperate for them it must be good.
I have always said ' don't give me money " I only want the things you need to get rid of – STOP DUMPING START DONATING " I wanted to get the schools involved to get the parents involved to get the children to realise that Santa doesn't actually get to every house in the world, only the ones with money.
Its a good education to get them to think about what their unwanted toys could mean to a child that has never had one.

I am hoping that this will continue, taking donations of unwanted things and finding a use for them, I have given unwanted things to the homeless, hostels, needy families, refugees, family refuge, I've also dealt with churches and welfare services, I've missed 20,000 rugby balls that were incinerated after the rugby world cup and 100 new children's bikes that were scrapped. Its madness, its difficult to organise a container, its hard work getting the message out to young mothers, ( Facebook is ideal ) but what if we could set up a template, so that every town did this with the right support and info, and a thousand containers full of unwanted things left to go to 1000 places in desperation every year.

Its frustrating sometimes that the powers that be are not getting involved, but I'm working on it, it will just take one thing that will move it on in a big way, or it will cease, i hope not, thanks for your involvement and thoughts.

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