{"id":241,"date":"2012-04-29T16:15:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/?p=241"},"modified":"2012-04-29T16:28:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T15:28:31","slug":"backpacks-for-schoolgirls-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/2012\/04\/29\/backpacks-for-schoolgirls-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Backpacks for schoolgirls in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We collected items to put in 20 backpacks which will be distributed by the charity Mary&#8217;s Meals.\u00a0 (see\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UdWvWVMdSkw)<\/p>\n<p>We packed our backpacks after the AGM on 25th April 2012 with pens, pencils, notebooks ruler,eraser,sharpener,pencil case,geometry set,dress,t-shirt, flip-flops,soap, towel,toothbrush and toothpaste,a ball, hand knitted small bag. spoon and other things. They will now be sent to Mary&#8217;s Meals warehouse and from there will be shipped with thousands of others to Malawi.\u00a0 The schoolgirls have only a plastic bag to keep their things dry in the rainy season and have very few personal possessions.\u00a0 We hope we have made a difference for 20 of such girls.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2012\/04\/DSCF2723.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-242\" src=\"\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2012\/04\/DSCF2723-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2012\/04\/DSCF2723-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2012\/04\/DSCF2723-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a few of the things to go into backpacks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We collected items to put in 20 backpacks which will be distributed by the charity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Backpacks for schoolgirls in Malawi | News | Blog | Events | SI Swindon and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Swindon and District : Blog &amp; News : Backpacks for schoolgirls in Malawi : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Swindon and District . 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