23 July 2015

Call to send surplus stock to children in Africa

At the BOSS Federation Members' Day in June an update was delivered by Nick Bell of the Catholic aid agency, CAFOD, thanking those who donated notebooks, pens, pencils and other educational items which were successfully distributed to hundreds of children across Southern Sudan to improve their learning.

The BOSS Federation are preparing to send another shipment and this is the final chance to send in product donations.

The cost of shipment for each container to Khartoum is £1,500 and the onward cost of distribution per container in Sudan is £3,200.

We need your help to gather the product and the funds to get these items to the children who need it most. Sponsorship of any size will go a long way to help pay for the shipment of the remaining containers.

Thanks go to all companies who've supported the scheme so far and to Robert Baldrey of EVO, Chris Collinson of Superstat, Philip Beer of Hamelin and Kiran Mistry of COLOP who have generously offered sponsorship to cover some of the shipment costs.

Please contact me at [email protected] to let me know if you can make any contribution, whether product/financial, to this fantastic cause. It will make a huge difference to the lives of children in Southern Sudan.

Michael Gardner
Chief Executive - BOSS Federation