Cleanup puts spring in Rotary’s step

SCHOOL students and teachers have once again been cleaning out their cupboards to support Pakenham Rotary.
A spring cleanout at Beaconhills College will help Rotary’s efforts to recycle useful primary and secondary school resources.
Beaconhills head of information services Joy Board has encouraged students and teachers to promote the spring cleanout of secondhand textbooks, atlases, dictionaries and fiction, and was delighted with the college’s response.
She said about 90 boxes of books were donated.
Pakenham Rotary member Andrew Walsh, with the help of year eight students, collected the boxes for inclusion in a shipping crate of school resources, which will be sent to needy schools in Papua New Guinea.
“The Rotary clubs in PNG work hard to ensure the items are distributed to remote schools that need them and will use them effectively,” Mrs Board said.
“It is wonderful to support such a worthy cause, and to see the books go to children in need for both their enjoyment and to help with their education.”