Display targets good giving
Staffordshire children are being encouraged to give their teachers an end-of-term gift with a difference and help needy youngsters overseas. Staffordshire children are being encouraged to give their teachers an end-of-term gift with a difference and help needy youngsters overseas. Bosses at Stafford's Oxfam shop have created a window display to promote the charity's "Unwrapped" catalogue scheme which encourages people to buy a gift on behalf of people for less fortunate people in Third World countries. Gifts include two school text books for £5, a fishing net for £10, a desk and chair for £15, safe water for £18, an alpaca for £20 and 25 tree saplings for £8. Shop manager Pat Stubbs said: "With the end of the school term looming, I thought it would be good to encourage children, instead of buying traditional presents like chocolates for their teachers, to buy something from the Unwrapped catalogue." Read the full story in the Express & Star.
Bosses at Stafford's Oxfam shop have created a window display to promote the charity's "Unwrapped" catalogue scheme which encourages people to buy a gift on behalf of people for less fortunate people in Third World countries.
Gifts include two school text books for £5, a fishing net for £10, a desk and chair for £15, safe water for £18, an alpaca for £20 and 25 tree saplings for £8.
Shop manager Pat Stubbs said: "With the end of the school term looming, I thought it would be good to encourage children, instead of buying traditional presents like chocolates for their teachers, to buy something from the Unwrapped catalogue.
Such a gift helps everyone, benefiting a lot of people and doing lasting good." She said she "begged and borrowed" items to create the window display at the shop in the Sheridan Centre.
"It took me four hours to set it up, with the help of a friend. "I've tried to illustrate the things you can buy to help people in poor countries, so there's a desk and chair and seedlings that I grew for the display."
The shop won a national competition for volunteers' publicity work around Comic Relief and received a certificate signed by TV presenter Graham Norton and a T-shirt signed by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
