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Books leaving Feilding, NZ
on route to Whenuapai Air Force Base
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Makino
Rotarian Nigel Ramsden’s son Mark is the New Zealand High Commissioner to the
Solomon Islands. Mark approached his
father for assistance for Gizo School which has 1000 primary and secondary
students, a new library, but few books.
There was a need at this school for school reference books. It led to a project by Makino Rotary in
Fielding, NZ to find and ship books up to the Solomon Islands.
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| Books at Henderson Airfield in Honiara, Solomon
Islands being unloaded from the Royal NZ Air Force |
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boxes of books have been sent to the Gizo Area School which is in the Western
Province of Solomon Islands, to begin stocking their empty new library. With
magnificent assistance from the NZ High Commissioner in the Solomons, NZ Defence
staff and Makino Rotarians, this project was completed at little cost to Rotary
through a generous charity freight grant from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The
total cost to the club was only $396 for freight to Whenuapai Air Force Base in
Auckland.
From
small requests great things can happen through Rotary partnerships.
