The
PR-group of our project have made a press release which they have
sent to places like the local newspaper to create some publicity
around the project. Here you see a translated version of it.
PRESS
RELEASE
High-school
students are working globally
High-school
students from the Copenhagen Open Gymnasium take global
responsibility - this week they are collecting clothes, shoes, school
material and toiletries to other children and young people from Cape
Town townships. Maersk Line in Cape Town is shipping the things in a
container from Valby in Cpenhagen to Cape Town, where the NGO Afrika
Tikkun takes over.
This
week 30 freshman students from the Copenhagen Open Gymnasium are
working on a project that will further them in becoming citizens of a
global world. They are in the process of collecting plenty of stuff
for children from exposed areas in Cape Town.
Anything
from toothpaste to pencils, and the collection is well on its way.
Colgate and Palmolive have donated a thousand tubes of toothpaste and
a thousand pieces of hand soap to the project. The main library in
Copenhagen have donated 87 books in English. But those donations are
only a small step on the way to load an entire container with things
that will come in handy for the children in Cape Town.
Maersk
Line in Cape Town will be delivering the container which they will
ship free of charge from Valby in Copenhagen to Cape Town in South
Africa. Here the NGO Afrika Tikkun takes over. It’s a local
organisation that works towards empowering children and young people
in Cape Town’s townships. Since the democratization in 1994,
Afrika Tikkun has built a number of centres in exposed areas.
This is what the donations will go to and Afrika Tikkun will be in
charge of the distribution.
Kristian
is one of the students in the project - he says: “We are doing this
because we have the opportunity to do it. We can make contact to
people we know who can contribute with materials which can help
Afrika Tikkun. It’s about making use of the opportunities you get,
for one thing, through the people you know. There is always someone
who wants to help.”
Several
donors have been very helpful. The project started out as
co-operation with AP Moeller Maersk by way of a parent who quickly
gained contact to their department in South Africa. Here they were
very interested in supporting the project with both container and
shipment.
Do
you want to contribute with things to the project, it all takes place
at the Copenhagen Open Gymnasium. Write an email to
peter.bidstrup@kg.dk
if
you have a donation or anything
to
ask. The container will be shipped from the Copenhagen Open Gymasium,
on Friday the 1st of June.
Contact:
Peter
Bidstrup, +45 61 88 56 78, peter.bidstrup@kg.dk
Project
manager:
Lektor Mette Jørgensen, Copenhagen Open Gymnasium, +45
24 40 93 64, me@kg.dk