Tom Chudleigh has recently returned to his home in Milton, Ontario from an exhilarating experience in Kolkata, India. Tom traveled as part of a team of six volunteers representing a registered Canadian Charity called Sleeping Children Around The World. This team distributed 6500 bed kits in the area near Kolkata, India. All members of the team traveled at their own expense and without benefit of a tax receipt so this Charity could fulfill its pledge to each of its donors that every penny of each $30.00 donation would be used to provide the items that the children received.
Mr. Murray Dryden and his wife Margaret, parents of legendary hockey stars Dave and Ken Dryden, registered this Charity in 1970 and to date this unique organization has delivered over 865,000 bed kits in 31 third world countries.
The bed kit distributed to impoverished children in Kolkata included 27 different items intended to provide each child with a safe and peaceful night’s sleep. All bed kits contained the same items including such things as:
- mattress
- nylon mat
- pillow
- bed sheets
- mosquito net
- shorts/shirt or dress
- wool blanket
- t-shirt
- sandals
- towel
- woolen shawl
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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