AUSTRALIA – The staff at the Cairns Convention Centre has undertaken a humanitarian programme to donate the supply of excess delegate satchels to underprivileged children.
The satchels could be used as school bags in orphanages and “child soldier” rehabilitation centres in Uganda and Ghana, as well as the MAF Kids Programme in Papua New Guinea and Arnhem Land.
“This is the first school bag these children will ever receive,” says Reverend Kofi Boateng, founder of the African Christian Homes and Rehabilitation Centre, who accompanied and distributed the satchels. “They previously carried their few books in a plastic bag. To see the smile on the children’s faces is a wonderful reward.”
This humanitarian programme is coordinated on behalf of the centre by venue presentation manager, Denise Jorgensen.
