{"id":1491,"date":"2010-02-06T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T07:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanoystertrust.co.uk\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2010-02-06T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T07:44:07","slug":"goodies-for-gambia-at-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanoystertrust.co.uk\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"Goodies for Gambia at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Alan Dick<\/span>
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<\/br>Just in time for Christmas, a consignment of boxes arrved in the Gambia marked for the attention of Kira Dalton. They contained a whole load of ‘goodies’ which were the result of generous donations of clothes, books and so on from various people and organisations.<\/div>\n

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<\/br>Birmingham City Football Club kindly donated football strips, tracksuits and training gear.
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<\/br>Expect a Banjul branch of the Birmingham City Supporters Club to open soon!<\/div>\n
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Photos Two and Three<\/span> (right and below): Children of Bothwell Primary School near Glasgow, and Berkswell Primary School near Coventry rallied round last year to support young Gambian children less fortunate than themselves, by donating t-shirts and football strips.
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<\/br>All were greatly appreciated as you can see right and below.<\/div>\n
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Photo Four <\/span>(below): Last year, Eleanor Elcock, a student from Lichfield and former part-time worker at Woolworths, managed to persuade her local store, prior to its final closure, to donate childrens clothes and gym shoes to the African Oyster Trust.
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<\/br>The photo shows just some of the many happy recipients.<\/div>\n
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