DEAR EDITOR, a 20 ft container with 3000 prs of eye glasses from Lions Clubs in New Zealand and furniture, mobility aids, clothing & footwear has arrived in Honiara for distribution to local NGO’s including the SIDT, The Association of Persons’ with Disabilities, Hearts of Hope and the NRH Referral Eye Hospital.
The container, freighted to the Solomon Islands through the kind financial support of the Solomon Islands Forest Association (SFA) and Take My Hands Charity Trust, based in Auckland, is already being unloaded and the much needed items of donated supplies being distributed.
The clothing and footwear is especially needed by the Hearts of Hope Charity on Malaita which cares for more than 1000 young orphans and elderly widows on a daily basis.
FRANK SHORT
