BACKING: Roose Rotakids Club present backpacks to a past rotary club president
SCHOOL pupils are reaching out to children across the world by helping them go to school.
Roose Rotakids Club, the Year Four class at Roose Community Primary School, have been packing backpacks full of the basics children need as part of a project called Mary’s Meals Backpack Project.
The Rotakids, supported by The Rotary Club of Furness Peninsula, have been packing the bags with essential including clothing, stationery and toiletries to send to poorer countries.
In these countries many children eat when they are at school.
In Malawi a week’s wages is 25p - the same price as an exercise book in Barrow.
The Rotakids presented 14 filled backpacks to the past president of the Furness Peninsula rotary club, John McGill.
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