Collection for Shelterbox November 2013

Sat, Nov 23rd 2013 at 10:00 am - 10:00 am

We were invited to collect for the disaster relief effort in the Philippines in the form of Rotary Shelterbox.


We were invited to Aardvark Books Bookery today to collect for Shelterbox during their " Winter Event". We had a number of us manning the stall during the day and people were very generous. We enjoyed meeting everyone and telling them about Shelterbox and Rotary and we raised over

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