8,000 toys for kids in tsunami-hit countries
AFTER opening up their wallets to help those affected by the tsunami over a year ago, members of the public have again shown that they care - this time by donating more than 8,000 soft toys.
The soft toys were collected in a Singapore Red Cross (SRC) event, Share Joy, Bring A Toy, in just five days - from Dec 26 to 30 last year - at the tsunami photo exhibition in Tampines.
These were sorted yesterday by SRC volunteers and will be dry-cleaned free by laundrette Crusade Services before they go to non-governmental groups and voluntary welfare organisations for distribution to children in tsunami-affected areas of Aceh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
Accompanying the toys are notes of encouragement, penned by the children who donated them.
- Straits Times, 23 Jan 2006.
I think the people over in tsunami-affected areas need their shelter and food more than toys.
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