THANK YOU DROITWICH

Kind hearted residents of Droitwich gave fantastic support to Droitwich Lions Club on Saturday when a bucket collection was held in the town in aid of the Haiti Disaster Appeal.

In just a few hours almost £1800 was collected by the Lions from generous shoppers around the town centre and this money will go to Lions Clubs International Foundation who will use all of it directly in the disaster area. Lions International is a self funding service organisation and its members finance the administration and running costs themselves which means that 100% of all money raised by the Lions is used to provide welfare assistance where it is most needed.

 

Lions around the world have not only already pledged US $250,000 but they are also busy providing practical help; from The Dominican Republic they are delivering supplies across the border and Canadian Lions, who were already in the area helping to establish a clean water system for an orphanage are now helping with emergency medical care. Lions in Sweden are sending tents to provide much needed temporary accommodation.

Lions’ immediate relief efforts centre on providing water, food, medicine and other essential needs but there will be many other projects which will have to be undertaken later. Readers will remember the work done by Lions after the South Asia Tsunami; the Droitwich Club and other local clubs, organisations and schools raised more that £60,000 which has been used to build a new community centre for the village of Hikaduwa in Sri Lanka which is also used as the village school. Droitwich Lions are twinned with the Hikaduwa club and members and friends and other local supporters sponsor poor students through school and university.

John Kelly, President of the club said “ It is very heart warmimg to know that in just a few hours in the centre of town we collected such a considerable amount of money. The people of Droitwich always show great support for everything that we do in the town – one resident of Vines Lane saw our collectors outside Waitrose from his kitchen window and then walked across the park with a bag of coins which he had been saving for a suitable occasion ! We also received 10 Hungarian Forint, worth about 10p, 1 Euro and 1 Swiss France – it all counts !”