Sleeping Children Around the World
On Thursday April 11, the Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar was visited by a group of students from James W. Hill Public School in Oakville, along with their Vice-Principal.
The students at the school had decided to conduct a fund-raising campaign to support Sleeping Children Around the World (SCAW). SCAW is a Canadian charity that provides bed kits, mosquito nets, clothes and school supplies to children in poor areas of the world. It was founded by Murray and Margaret Dryden, and is being carried on by the Dryden family and the foundation they established.
The vision of Murray Dryden was that every child deserves a good night’s sleep, and help in facing the challenges of the day, including schooling. It is a totally volunteer organization and has distributed hundreds of thousands of kits to children in many countries. It functions solely on donations.
The students of James W. Hill School collected $1,400 for SCAW and presented it to us at our meeting last week. They are a great group of young people and their efforts will make a big difference to children elsewhere in the world.
The Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar will double that amount, resulting in a donation to SCAW of $4000. That is about 115 children who will get a kit, sleep more comfortably, and do better in school.
This is great work, and congratulations to all the students and teachers at James W Hill.