Tuesday, March 11, 2014
LIONS CLUB OF HASTINGS TO HELP A FILIPPINO SCHOOL AFTER TYPHOON HAIYAN DISASTER
The Lions Club of Hastings
is buying 120 chairs for the San Rafael National High
School in the north of Iloilo
Province in the
Philippines. The school was devastated in the
typhoon and all property destroyed.
Immediately
the disaster
occurred Hastings Lions donated £1,000 to
the fund set
up by Lions International and committed to
donate £1.00 of each entry fee from the
2014 Hastings Half Marathon. Each
pound will go to buying a chair and there should be a surplus to
donate later.
The Hastings
Lions have been connected for a
number of years to a member of the Iloilo Lions Club Ofelia Thom. Ofelia is a hearing technician
who receives many recycled hearing aids from the
Hastings Club for her clinics with the
charity Medical Missions Pacific Rim
Group.
Lion Teresita
G Layson, President of the Lions Club of Iloilo has emailed to say, “Thank you for your gesture of thoughtfulness and generosity. On behalf of the
victims of Typhoon Haiyan we are grateful that you are there
to help”.
7 March 2014
# posted by Andrew Cubison @ 12:33 am 
