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Participants of this year’s Saffery Rotary Walk have rallied for a good cause, donating more than 50 of their t-shirts from the event to the Tumaini Fund.
The local branch of the Inner Wheel Club, an international organisation closely linked to the Rotary Club, came up with an idea to ensure that those ‘one-hit wonder’ t-shirts didn’t languish at the back of the wardrobe and the Saffery Rotary Walk Committee was overwhelmed with the response from walkers.
Amanda Milsted, President of Inner Wheel in Guernsey said; "Each year we help our Rotary colleagues by manning certain checkpoints around the walk and it is great to be able to expand on the range of benefits that emanate from everyone's efforts."
The Saffery Rotary Walk is one of the island's largest charity fundraising events and has supported dozens of charitable causes over the past 20 years.
Committee chairman, Simon Milsted, said: “The idiom ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ could not be more apt here. We asked the walkers, at short notice, and the heartfelt response was wonderful.
“Every year there is an increasing impact for local charities from the Saffery Rotary Walk and we are able to support more and more organisations that provide much valued services for islanders.
“Our focus is to inspire the walkers to raise as much money as possible for the 28 selected charities and we’re very happy to be able to help the Tumaini Fund by donating these t-shirts.”
Tanzania is one of ten most impoverished countries in the world and, in north-west Tanzania alone, there are 200,000 orphans, most as a result of AIDS which dramatically intensified in this area after the genocides in Rwanda and Burundi.
All t-shirts have now been delivered to charity organisers to be distributed in north-west Tanzania, next month, to orphans in desperate need of any form of basic clothing.
Dr Susan Wilson, MBE, Chairman of the Tumaini Fund thanked the Committee on Twitter: “Thanks to all at Saffery Champness, Rotary in Guernsey & @Orchard PR – so many children will now receive beautiful t-shirts instead of rags.”
