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| From Kenya Album 2007 |
Don Potter struggles to put his experience into words. He says, “I don’t know how to start my report since so much is going through my mind”.
This is often the feeling that traveling volunteers articulate when they try to capture the strong emotions of a distribution for the Canadian Charity, Sleeping Children Around the World.
Don has recently returned from Kenya Africa. He saw slums where poverty is endemic. He now understands the threat of disease to these innocent children. He now better understands how it is possible that a child in Africa under the age of five dies every 30 seconds from malaria!
Don wrote about a child he encountered in the first distribution. This child was deaf and badly disfigured but he reached out to Don with a smile of uncontained happiness.
Sleeping Children Around the World is an exemplary Canadian Charity that pledges that every penny of a $30.00 donation will be invested in the bedkit. The six person team that traveled to Kenya paid all of their own expenses!
Murray and Margaret Dryden, parents of hockey legends Dave and Ken Dryden, registered this Charity in 1970 and to this date this unique organization has delivered over 869,000 bedkits in over 30 different third world countries.
The bedkit distributed in Kenya included 13 different items, including an insecticide treated mosquito net, intended to provide each child with a safe and peaceful night’s sleep. The bedkit contained such things as:
- mattress
- blanket
- bed sheet
- pillowcase
- pillow
- mosquito net
- shorts
- t-shirt
- towel
For more information please contact Tamara Kaftalovich, Account Executive, Maverick Public Relations Inc. @ 416-640-5525 or Grant Clark, Sleeping Children Around The World @ 416-231-1841.
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