Stratford vet Doug MacDougald recently returned to his home in Stratford following a mission of mercy in Mumbai, India.
He travelled as part of a team of volunteers representing the registered Canadian charity Sleeping Children Around The World. The team distributed 7,500 bed kits in the area near Mumbai. All members of the team travelled at their own expense and without benefit of a tax receipt so the charity could fulfil its pledge to each of its donors that every penny of each $30 donation would be used to provide the items that the children received, states a press release.
Hockey legend Murray Dryden and his wife Margaret registered Sleeping Children Around the World in 1970 and to date the organization has delivered over 865,000 bed kits in 31 Third World countries.
The bed kit distributed in Mumbai included 20 different items intended to provide each child with a peaceful night's sleep and improved personal hygiene. All bed kits contained the same items including such things as: a sleeping mat, a cotton blanket, a wool blanket, a pillow, a towel, clothing (two sets), a sweater, a raincoat and a school bag.
Sleeping Children Around The World is a Canadian international not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing bedkits to children of any race and/or religion living in underdeveloped and developing countries.
SCAW works with reliable overseas partners who arrange for all items to be made in the country of distribution.
The Rotary Club of Mumbai was the partner for this distribution and fulfilled rigorous financial reporting to account for all expenditures.
This overseas partner also assisted in the selection of the neediest children.
