Scrap Paper Turns Into Overseas Aid - 29 November 1999
Children’s Aid Direct are delighted that Yellow Pages is delivering 33,000 exercise books to the charity on Monday 29 November. The books are made from offcuts of the rolls of paper used to make the Yellow Pages directories.This is the 3rd time the two Reading based organisations have worked together to do their bit for children’s education overseas and for the environment in the UK.
The exercise books will become part of student packs containing paper, pens and pencils - many of which have been donated as part of a ‘stationery amnesty’ among employees at Yellow Pages offices.
"Children’s Aid Direct are a charity that we have had a relationship with for many years," said Sara Tye, Head of Press and Public Relations. "Producing text books from our waste is not only fulfilling our environmental agenda but meeting our social one."
"We hope it helps bridge the gap between the desire for knowledge and the lack of resources in these war torn areas," she added.
"We are in desperate need of items for the student packs," said Gaynor Jones, volunteers manager at Children’s Aid Direct, "so the donation from Yellow Pages couldn’t have come at a better time."
Over the next two to three months, the packs will be sent on their way to Liberia, Kosovo and Haiti, where they are eagerly awaited by students aged seven to teenage.
