Chance to help toy mission

11:46am Thursday 15th May 2008

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MALTON and Norton District Lions Club is joining with the Gazette & Herald to collect toys and educational games for children in a Romanian village.

Lions organiser Adrian Wilford said the collection will benefit 20 children, aged between four and seven, in a kindergarten in Barcanesti. The children later transfer to the village school attending until they are 13.

The kindergarten needs pens, pencils, paper, notebooks and exercise books, games such as jigsaws, board games, draughts, picture card games, together with paint brushes, paint, constructions toys, music making activities, as well as cars, boats and trains.

Similar activities are sought for the school, along with tennis balls and racquets, footballs, bean bags, skipping ropes and hoops, together with musical instruments.

Donations of toys or cash towards equipment can be left at the Gazette & Herald office in Yorkersgate, Malton, between 9am and 5pm, Monday and Friday. The office is closed between 12.30pm-1pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.