Urgent – Shipping costs funds needed!

Greetings everyone! We need additional funds as soon as possible. Find out how much, why we need it, and how to help below.

Well we have got the pictures from our donors, Tronox, of them boxing up the IT equipment ready to begin being transported to Zimbabwwe.

Alice & Triston of Tronox

The plan is to get them to our shippers in Leicester as early as tbis week. That gives them time to prepare everything for the next available flight. Usually it takes several days to get a connecting flight to Harare but they should arrive just before I do.

The entire donation has been boxed up by the Tronox team

So now we need to get them on the move!

What do we need?

Well the weight of the donation turns out to be quite a bit higher than I expected, at close to 250kg. That means the cost of shipping the goods out to Zimbanwe has gone up to around £2700…. I had thought it would have beem maybe £1500.

Friends of Pakati have just over £760 in its account, & I will put a chunk of money in myself to make it up to around £1300, leaving a ‘black hole’ of around £1400 to raise in a short space of time…

So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can you help us? Please SHARE this widely across your online platforms & encourage people you know to give whatever they can, no mattee how little. Here us how you can givr to us:

http://www.paypal.me/friendsofpakati

http://www.gofundme.com/friends-of-pakati

Or please contact me via DM (Twitter), IM (facebook), or via email at friendsofpakati@gmail.com & I will give the bank details of our account for larger amounts..

Let’s help get the computers out to Pakati & allow their students to learn in the digital age!

Author:

My name is Chris Walker, and between January 1989 and September 1991 I worked, through VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas), at Pakati Secondary School in Murehwa South district in Zimbabwe. I was a Maths teacher for 2 years, the Acting Head for the last 8 months there. I have also taught in Botswana & the UK, had 4 years working for VSO, and have been a Civil Servant in Bradford since 2005.

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