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The Backpack Project

As many of you will be aware, Riversdale Primary School is a Rights Respecting School. As part of our endeavour to be global citizens with an impact on the lives of children across the world, we are participating in a very important campaign with the charity Mary's Meals. This charity work for children across Africa, to ensure that they have access to at least one healthy and nutritious meal each day, whilst they are at school, to help them grow, develop and learn as best they can.

In addition to this, Mary’s Meal runs a campaign called The Backpack Project, which is what our students would like to work on. The students discovered that education comes at a price in many countries across the world and that they are fortunate enough to not only have free primary and secondary education, but that the equipment used to learn is provided by the school. Many schools across the world cannot afford to provide children with some of the basic equipment needed.

Rather than donating money, the Backpack Project asks that people donate equipment to make each child their very own backpack for school. The completed backpacks are then shipped to primary schools across Malawi, so that the children have the much-needed resources for learning.

We are asking if every child at Riversdale could do their best donate at least one item of equipment on the list provided, to help make learning possible for the children of Malawi. These do not need to be brand new, but can be used items that the children no longer want, need or fit in to. The only items that must be new are soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste for hygiene reasons. We ask that all donated items are sent in by Friday 26^th January 2017.

We hope that you are able to support the children in this campaign and look forward to sending off our wonderful backpacks in January.