Seek The Truth
Posts tagged charity
Care Link Trust Christmas Collection
We posted previously about our annual collection of food items for the Care Link Trust, and thought you’d like to see the amazing end result of our collection which was delivered to Care Link on Friday. Great work Matipo community!
To learn the value of giving to those less fortunate than yourself is truly remarkable.
Christmas Collection
Every year for the last 10 years the school has collected food items for Carelink Trust to provide Christmas food hampers for local families.
Christchurch Earthquake Benefit Concert & Auction
Matipo Primary held a very successful concert and auction to raise money to donate to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal. Our donation will go to the Mayoral Relief Fund and to the Salvation Army Fund.
A variety of school groups performed and some friends of the school.
Our drumming group ‘Funky Fish’ and the Heremaia ‘Transformers’ opened the show along with the guitar group and violin group.
The Polynesian group, Dancebeat and two pupil pianists followed.
Mrs Winterton played her viola to accompany Ms Nicolson and also Oscar Hemingway.
Miss Rasheed’s dance group performed two numbers followed by a rock’n’roll item from Bill and Kim.
Ex pupil, Dejealous Palota-Kopa sang and we concluded with the Music Mob and Jonny & the Jets.
We had lots of laughs at the auction and thanks to the wonderful generosity of our community, raised the magnificent total of $5377 $5484!
A HUGE thanks to all involved.
Child Sponsorship
This year the school council has sponsored a child through World Vision. Our sponsored child is Rifat Miah, who is 8 years old and lives in Bangladesh.
Rifat lives with his parent sand two siblings. His hobby is soccer and his job at home is helping with the shopping.
World Vision sponsorship costs $30 per month and the school council is fund raising towards this total.
Birthday 28 October 2001
School Level: Primary School
Favourite subject: His National Language – Bengali
Favourite Sport: Soccer
Chores: Assists with shopping
Brothers: One
Sisters: One
Area he lives in: The Kaliganj Community
Our sponsorship helps Rifat with books and the costs of his education.
The sponsorship also helps his community reach its long term goals:
By helping improve the classrooms and school equipment. Trains school management committees and educates parents about the importance of education.
(Many children must work to help the family income)
Assists bringing clean water and better health facilities.
(Lack of clean water, poor sanitation, and going to untrained healers are major health problems)
Trains farmers to improve production, in agriculture though irrigation, fertiliser use, and improved seed stock. Also support services.
This is not all but an idea of what our sponsorship goes towards.
UPDATE: We have now received a letter from Rifat:
[blockquote]First my greetings to you. I am Sumi Begum, a CRS volunteer, is writing this letter. Rifat is very happy to hear that you have become his loving sponsor. He hopes to continue his studies nicely by your kind help.
He lives with his family in a village. It is situated 40 kilometres away from Dhaka city. They live in a tin roofed house with bamboo walls around. His father is a rickshaw puller and mother does household works. A mud road has passed beside their home. There are many green trees and paddy fields around their home.
He likes to go to school. His school is one kilometre away from their home. He goes to school everyday on foot. He has many friends at school. He likes to play football. Rifat desires to be a teacher when he grows up. He is very interested to know about your family and your country. Thank you very much.[/blockquote]
