30.05.2012

Press release

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

Malthe Schjerlund, +45 29 47 18 27, malthe.schjerlund@kg.dk


Project manager:
Lektor Mette Jørgensen, Copenhagen Open Gymnasium, +45 24 40 93 64, me@kg.dk


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