GENEROUS pupils at Trellech Primary School have clubbed together to donate three Aquaboxes to the victims of the Pakistan earthquake - a feat made even more remarkable when calculated as 30 percent of Monmouth's total.
The Aquabox initiative is a nationwide drive by the Rotary Club for people to fill shoeboxes with warm clothing, toiletries and other useful items to be sent out to areas affected by the autumn disaster.
Boxes also include a filter cartridge and water-treatment tablets, to purify enough polluted water for a four-person family to drink for four months. The Rotary Club of Monmouth has so far received ten such boxes - and Peter Davey, the district governor nominee for 2007-08, is understandably delighted that Trellech School have more than played their part. The young pupils' efforts will provide enough clean water for a family to drink for a year.
Trellech Primary School head teacher Susan Eriksson said: "We are only a little school, but the scheme really caught the children's imaginations." Together, Rotary Clubs throughout the United Kingdom have to date amassed 1,400 Aquaboxes.
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