Donation to Hearts4Kids on 29 October
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Following the DOWNTON ABBEY Movie Night Fundraiser held at the Capitol Cinema on 12 September and with the support of a $1,500 matching grant from the Rotary Foundation (District 9920), Mt Eden Rotary and Epsom Rotary were able to jointly donate $3,250 to the team from Hearts4Kids for their surgical trip for children in Fiji in mid-November. Pictured are Ana Kennedy (L), leader of the Hearts4Kids ward nursing team and Ainslie Campbell (R), President Mt Eden Rotary. Unfortunately Craig Jones, President Epsom Rotary, broke a tooth and was unable to be present for the photo.Donation of Books to Mt Eden Corrections Facility on 12 November
Mt Eden Rotary was delighted to donate 100 copies of the Usborne Illustrated English Dictionary to the Mt Eden Corrections Facility. The dictionaries will be used by the librarian Zoe Cornelius (R) (pictured with Mt Eden President Ainslie Campbell) and Regional Volunteer Coordinator Ghissy Lee to assist their literacy programmes. This donation was made possible by the OCEAN LIGHT book launch event held last year and thanks to Nalini Singh, her fans who attended the event, Hachette NZ, Epsom Community Library, Chapter Book & Tea Shop and the June Gray Charitable Trust for their support.Based on Zoe’s and Ghissy’s initial feedback, it certainly sounds like there will be ongoing demand for dictionaries at the Mt Eden Corrections Facility given the facility’s size, turnover and average literacy rates. However, the NZ Road Code and NZ and South Pacific atlases are also possibilities for future donations.
Mt Eden Rotary would also like to put a shout-out to District to see if any Rotarians can help provide any of the following in reasonably good condition. Books in Portuguese, books in Te Reo, men’s interest magazines (for example, health, fitness, sports and leisure activities etc), general interest magazines (for example, National Geographic, Readers Digest etc) and also any crossword/puzzle magazines that have not been completed. If you have any of these items that you’d like to donate to the Mt Eden Corrections Facility or if you have any queries, please contact mtedenrotary@gmail.com. Thank you.