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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2021
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Lions find a new destination An unfortunate end for a community organisation’s planned act of goodness for a foreign nation has turned into an opportunity for another. JOHN LAZO-RON reports. Earlier this year, the combined Lions Clubs of Wairarapa, Tararua and Horowhenua collected various items donated from the community to ship off to northern Uganda. They filled an entire shipping container with clothing, curtains, bedding, furniture [including school desks], sports equipment, bicycles, hand tools, DIY goods, and kitchenware and utensils. The donated goods would
have been sent to help out Ugandans in dire need of these items. However, they eventually found the practicality of shifting a container to the African nation unfeasible. Uganda is landlocked. The Lions Clubs would have had to ship the container to Kenya first which would have cost them US$15,000 alone.
But to get the container to the Ugandan border from Kenya, it would have cost another US$5000, while they would have been billed a further US$4000 to get the container to its destined location in Northern Uganda. With the mounting costs getting too high for the organisation, they eventually pulled the plug on the project.
Project leader Jack Hayes said the extremely high bill simply outweighed the purpose of what the Lions Club were trying to achieve. “It was disappointing,” he said. “All the clubs got together and helped load the container and sorted everything, and then at the end, it was impossible to complete the project as planned. It just went on and on with arrangements not being made, and then we found out how expensive it was going to be. It was going to cost us more than $20,000, so it was never going to happen.” Continued on page 3
The combined Lions Clubs of Wairarapa sold community donated items to raise funds for community projects in Fiji. From L-R: Jack Hayes, Liz Dellar and Sandy Hayes. PHOTO/JOHN LAZO-RON
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