FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015

Naumai e te whanau o te kura Muritai

Kia ora koutou

Welcome to our new students this week - Evan and Imogen Chappell who have started in room 6 and room 16 respectively. Our roll today sits at 430 pupils which is tracking exactly as planned for 2016!

The school has a different feel to it this week as our year 5-8 children have been immersed in making costumes for their production.  We have had 200 children all over the place, following some sort of order, to create and build their performance piece to share in week 9 of this term. My daily wander around classrooms has shown how  special this opportunity is with such a different type of learning going on. It really is extremely challenging for students and, with the choreography coming next, working closely with direction and indeed others will present a new step up for our children to master. We are always very proud of the shows we produce at Muritai and this one, while quite different to what we have put together before, is starting to take a lovely shape. Fingers crossed this good momentum is maintained.

There have been so many parents / friends of the school in this week helping. This is much appreciated and one of the special characters that we have in the New Zealand education system. Our families and communities can play a rich part in our children’s day at school. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise with our children.

There is a lot going on at the school - production preparation, activities such as EPRO technology challenge, Mathswell, Artsplash, Dancesplash, Fact-a-Thon, Pizza mondays, Daffodil day today - the school never stands still, it is always on the move. All the best to our Artsplash choir next Monday evening at the Michael Fowler Centre.

Today we tested the school capacity for a Tsunami drill. This involves all people on site vacating the school and walking up McKenzie Road above the safe zone. It went well and the last person was at the bottom in 7 minutes and all people above the safe zone by 10 minutes - which is excellent.

Please note the Board of Trustee parent workshop on developing strategy towards 2020 on Monday 7th September. We would love to see you there.

CALENDARS

You will have recently received a notice for Art Calendars, Diaries and Cards for this year - these make excellent Christmas presents for grandparents, family and friends.  You can view your child’s art work either in their classroom or on their classroom blog.  Please ensure you place your orders and return to the office by Friday 11 September.

YEAR 5-8 PRODUCTION “THE ELEMENTS”

Our Year 5-8 students have been working incredibly hard over the past week getting prepared for their art extravaganza in week 9. We have had students involved in a variety of creative experiences including the art of taking the perfect photo, learning lines for a play (William Shakespeare's MacBeth no less!), creating a music/dance act with percussion, painting on fabric and of course wearable arts. All the acts are inspired by 'The Elements - Earth, Wind, Water and Fire'.

The teachers have been incredibly impressed with all the students creativity and enthusiasm over the past week - what incredible kids we have at Muritai!

A special thanks to all our wonderful parents who volunteered their time to help out during the week. We could not have done it without you!

We are looking to borrowing a few items for our performance as follows:

• Portable Freestanding basketball hoop
• 2 orange strobe lights (that top workvans, or similar)

Please contact Carol Algar if you are able to lend the school any of these items.

Performances will be on:

• Tuesday 15 September Matinee at 1pm
• Tuesday 15 September Evening Performance at 7pm
• Wednesday 16 September Evening Performance at 7pm
• Thursday 17 September Evening Performance at 7pm

Tickets will be available for purchase from Tuesday next week from the school office - adults $8.00, children and seniors $5 each.

NUDE FOOD

Kim Grant our local Tupperware provider has put together a special order form of snack containers through to full lunch sets as we endeavour to reduce our waste.  Any proceeds will go towards funding future school enviro initiatives. If you wish to purchase any items please return the attached order form and money in an envelope to the office.

TOWARDS 2020.

The Board of Trustees and the staff have been working on planning ahead to develop some strategic ideas to take Muritai forward to the year 2020. The Board would like to invite parents to a ‘forward thinking session’ on Monday the 7th September from 7.30pm. If you would like to come along and be part of the process we would love to see you there.

We recently shared Sir Ken Robinson’s seminal talk on the culture of learning ...you may like to have a look at the excellent five minute talk from Mark Osborne on modern learning practices in the 21st century….CLICK HERE. Mark explains why learning over the last 5-10 years is different to when we as adults experienced school.

EPRO8 CHALLENGE

 Muritai sent along a year 5 and a year 6 team to the Epro8 Technology Challenge at Wainuiomata Intermediate School on Tuesday 25 August. Where they competed against a large number of teams from schools around the Wellington region, tasked to complete as many technology challenges within two and a half hours. Our teams did exceptionally well with the year 6 team coming 3rd and the year 5 team coming 4th - both through to the semi-finals!

On monday the 24th of August two Year 7/8 Muritai school teams of four entered a competition. Team 1 was Noah Oakshatt, Tilly Potter, Tessa Treadwell-Burke  and Shannyn Thompson. Team two was Kieran Smith, Fergus Hart, Macey Caughley & Dann Tokeley. The competition we entered was an engineering and building competition called ePro 8. We were set with limited supplies and had four tasks and had 3 and a half hours to do as many of the tasks as we could do. The first task we decided to do was to make a Mars space rover that could carry 5 kg and for more points we could make it remote control, go back and forwards and or stop if it hits any objects. When we had finished we pressed a big red button that lets off a song and lights to mean we are done.  We had made a mars rover that

could carry 5 kg.  After that we had 1 and a half hours to make a crane that had to be 1.8 m high and carry 1 kg. We managed to complete the task in the nick of time, we had 2 minutes till the time was up. Once we had finished it was prize giving and team one came 3rd and team two came 4th! This means both teams qualify for the semi-finals on Tuesday 15th September.

Noah Oakshatt

ARTSPLASH AND DANCESPLASH

Last chance to purchase your tickets for the Artsplash and Dancesplash performances..  Please see Carole or Jo in the office.

Performances are

• Artsplash - Monday 31 August
• Dancesplash - Friday 4 September

COMMUNITY NOTICES

Flash Us Your Whio

We are celebrating the launch of our flash new walk-through whio aviary with $10 entry for everyone on the weekend of 12th and 13th September only.   

Walk-through our exciting new aviary and meet the resident whio, kakariki and kereru in this wonderful recreation of their natural habitat.  

There will also be lots of fun whio activities for visitors to enjoy.   Be one of the first 100 visitors through the entry gate each morning to receive a special number that corresponds a rubber blue duck.   Daily blue duck river races will take place with the first 3 ducks across the finish line winning their owners some fantastic prizes.  

Our rangers will also be running special blue duck talks throughout the weekend.  So make some time to join on of these free talks and find out more about this very special iconic NZ duck.

Cool Kids' Kilometre - Sign up now!

The starting pistol for this fabulous local fun-run will 'go off' at 11am on 13th September 2015 at McEwan Park in Petone.  The Cool Kids' Kilometre is part of the Pelorus Trust Run & Walk Event.  Visit www.hvmc.org.nz for more information, and to enter online.

Entry is only $5, and all entrants receive a finishers ribbon.  Parents welcome encouraged to run/walk with their kids

Age Groups: Under 8, 9-10, 11-12.  Trophy for first boy and girl in each age group.

Melissa Moon, two time World Mountain Running champion, will do the warm-up, and run with the kids.

Melissa is a long-distance athlete from Wellington.  She is a two time World Mountain Running champion and has won 21 NZ athletics titles over her career.  In 2001 she was named NZ Sportswoman of the Year.  In 2010, Moon won the woman's race up the 86 flights of stairs of the Empire State Building, in a time of 13mins and 13secs.

Eastbourne Rugby Club ‘After Match’ Party

A few tickets are still available for this very popular event raising funds for our local Eastbourne Community Services Club.  Saturday 5 September from 7pm.

Everyone’s welcome. Tickets are available for $75 each from the  Muritai school office.

For more information contact Annette on 021 027 07 886 or email annettesliper@yahoo.com

2015/16 Muritai Tennis Club Junior Tennis Registration

Keen to play tennis this summer? Sign up for junior inter-club tennis and coaching with Evolve Tennis Coaching at the Muritai Tennis Club, 356 Muritai Road on the following dates:

11-noon Saturday 5 September 2015

11-noon Sunday 13 September 2015

Payment must be made at registration.

Junior Interclub tennis starts Saturday 17 October - contact Jude Notman - judenotman@yahoo.com or Gretch Campbell - daysbaysurfclub@gmail.com

Evolve Tennis coaching includes options for juniors of all ages and abilities.  Meet the Evolve Team in person on Saturday 5 September or contact evolvetenniscoaching@gmail.com or 4791 386.

Middle Years Toolbox Parenting Groups

A fun and inspiring small group parenting course for parents of children aged 6-12 years.

It’s designed to help you stay connected, teach skills and build memories.

Two options, both on Tuesdays 20 Oct to 24 Nov 2015:

Daytime:  10am to 12pm  in Pinehaven  Facilitated by Lisa Cutfield

Evening:   7pm to 9pm in Kelson  Facilitated by Murray & Helen Deadman

Would you and your partner both like to participate in a Toolbox group, but finding a babysitter is tricky?

Why not go to one group each? You can book at the couple price! Contact Natalie to find out how.

Bookings are essential. Cost: $75 individual, $110couple (subsidies are available)

Free for foster and adoptive parents and grandparents raising grandchildren, thanks to govt funding.

Visit  theparentingplace.com or contact Natalie P: 934 8483  E: HuttKapiti@theparentingplace.com

FRIDAY 21 AUGUST 2015

Naumai e te whanau o te kura Muritai

Kia ora koutou

Today marks the end of week 5 and we have reached the mid-point of term 3.

This week our thoughts are with our teaching colleague Ruth Hooke. Ruth’s husband Steve passed away after battling a short illness. The funeral for Steve is tomorrow at Wellesley at 3pm. Steve was a great parent and friend of Muritai and the staff. He will be sorely missed by us all. Ruth has requested privacy at this time for her and Millie and I’m sure you can respect that wish.

We have had a very productive week at Muritai. Children completed their fact-a-thon testing and are starting to turn their fundraising money in for our new science room. It has been an exciting process for most and this extra attention on basic facts at home is much appreciated by the teaching staff. Our thanks to the Home and School team for putting this together. The disco was a huge success last Friday - again thanks to the parents and staff who provided supervision.

The children are working hard in class. As I walk around the school I see each room immersed in the learning task of the time. Each class has a unique feel to it as each class is different. It really is a joy to move through the school and see the children so highly engaged, part of the process and trying to do their very best. Often you see the teacher with a child showing them how to do something or encouraging them to keep trying to get their job done, to have the belief that they can do it. As a staff we are working through development on understanding ‘Well-being at School’ and the role we play in creating classrooms where children can flourish and be confident, connected active learners. It is an interesting journey as we work through the science of it all, but extremely rewarding as we reflect on the things we do and how to make our classroom environments right for all children.

The staff are committed to lots of additional activities during the day - some involve large groups, some smaller more intimate groups with lots of activities available to the children. It is so nice to see the children at lunchtimes relaxing and reading in the school library for example. So on top of 3 lunch and play duties, staff complete an extra lunch or playtime activity with the children. We are very lucky with this extra commitment at Muritai from the staff and we enjoy the extra commitment from parents who also pop in and take groups such as sports, music etc. So Muritai, despite been a calm place to be, is also a very busy place to be!

YEAR 5-8 PRODUCTION “THE ELEMENTS”

Students are starting to work on their costumes and art works for our Production this year which is based on the four elements of fire, water, earth and air.  Performances will be on:

Tuesday 15 September Evening Performance at 7pm

Tuesday 15 September Matinee at 1pm

Wednesday 16 September Evening Performance at 7pm

Thursday 17 September Evening Performance at 7pm

Tickets will be available for purchase from Tuesday next week from the school office - adults $8.00, children and seniors $5 each.

NUDE FOOD

Nude food is picking up momentum. This year as part of our Enviro work we are trying to reduce our quota of waste that goes to the landfill. We are conscious that much of today’s world is wrapped in plastic and at Muritai we would like to begin the process of reducing our waste Thank you for reducing the packaging in your child’s lunchbox.  In the next couple of weeks we will send home some information on lunch box packaging.  We would like to encourage this initiative as part of our Enviro school ethos. Thanks for your on-going support.

TOWARDS 2020.

The Board of Trustees and the staff have been working on planning ahead to develop some strategic ideas to take Muritai forward to the year 2020. The Board would like to invite parents to a ‘forward thinking session’ on Monday the 7th September from 7.30pm. If you would like to come along and be part of the process we would love to see you there.

To help start your thinking have a look at this wonderful talk on education from 2013 by Sir Ken Robinson.

EPRO8 CHALLENGE

We have two teams of year 5/6 students and two teams of year 7/8 student entered for the Epro8 Challenge which begins next week.

The Epro8 Challenge is an engineering and problem solving race and competition where school teams compete to build large sized structures, operate a real robotic arm, solve practical problems, invent machines that can complete simple tasks, complete a general knowledge test and undertake unusual experiments.  The teams are given a list of the challenges and have to choose which they will undertake.  The harder the challenge, the more points it is worth.  Strategy is required as there is not enough time to finish all the challenges.  The top four teams from each heat qualify for the Wellington wide semi-finals and finals.

We wish them all good luck.

SPORTS

Gymnastics

Rosa Blair won the Step 4 Gym competition held in Levin this weekend and the weekend prior she won the Rimutaka Step 4 Competition.  A very talented gymnast - well done Rosa.

Basketball

This year we have three basketball teams, our experienced year 7 and 8’s and year 5 and 6 team and now a year 1 and 2 team. The new year 1 and 2 team have just started and we hope they will do as well as the older teams.  We applied for funding from Pelorus Trust for new uniforms for the 3 teams as our old ones were a little shabby and have been given a grant of $900 to go towards these.  A big thank you to Pelorus Trust.  Our teams are going to look spectacular!

Soccer

On Tuesday the 18th of August at 12.15pm a group of Year 7 & 8 students went to Bishops Park to play against the Wellesley B team. The Muritai team played really well and won 7-4.  Alice McFarlane scored a hat-trick, and the other goals were scored by Matthew Jones (2), Macey Caughley and Ella Giles. Overall they really enjoyed themselves and would love to do it again. Thanks to everyone who came down and supported them!!!!

By Macey Caughley.

Yoga

The Year 5 & 6 syndicate will be doing some Yoga with Jeanne Balding-Weinstock, a 'local' resident who has expertise in children's yoga.   She will be working with each class over the rest of the term beginning in week 7.  It would be great if the students can ensure they wear comfortable clothing for their sessions.  If there are any families that have a yoga mat, it would be good if they can make that available for their children to use.  Each class teacher has the days that each class session will take place.

ARTSPLASH AND DANCESPLASH

Tickets for the Artsplash and Dancesplash performances are for sale at the school office at $5 each.  Families are able to purchase 3 Artsplash tickets and only 2 Dancesplash tickets at the present time although we are operating a waitlist for extra tickets.  Performances are

• Artsplash - Monday 31 August
• Dancesplash - Friday 4 September

COMMUNITY NOTICES

Eastbourne Rugby Club ‘After Match’ Party

A few tickets are still available for this very popular event raising funds for our local Eastbourne Community Services Club.  Saturday 5 September from 7pm.

Everyone’s welcome. Tickets are available for $75 each from the  Muritai school office.

For more information contact Annette on 021 027 07 886 or email annettesliper@yahoo.com

2015/16 Muritai Tennis Club Junior Tennis Registration

Keen to play tennis this summer? Sign up for junior inter-club tennis and coaching with Evolve Tennis Coaching at the Muritai Tennis Club, 356 Muritai Road on the following dates:

11-noon Saturday 5 September 2015

11-noon Sunday 13 September 2015

Payment must be made at registration.

Junior Interclub tennis starts Saturday 17 October - contact Jude Notman - judenotman@yahoo.com or Gretch Campbell - daysbaysurfclub@gmail.com 

Evolve Tennis coaching includes options for juniors of all ages and abilities.  Meet the Evolve Team in person on Saturday 5 September or contact evolvetenniscoaching@gmail.com or 4791 386. 

ITM Cup at the Club

Come down and catch some of Wellington’s ITM Cup rugby games in a family friendly environment at the Eastbourne ‘Clubrooms’/RSA.  The rugby club has installed a new flat screen TV in the ‘family area’ so you can bring the whole family down for an afternoon.  Build the excitement towards the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

The kids can watch the game, play at the Rec or on the beach – feel free to bring some books or toys down for the younger ones.  The kids can bring their lunch boxes while the RSA will be open for refreshments and there is the potential to fire up the bbq if numbers allow.

Only family friendly game times have been selected here, however feel free to drop down anytime and make use of the facilities as there is a lot of rugby to be watched at other times..

Wellington v Southland - 5.35pm on 5 September

ERFC ‘AFTER MATCH’ Party on 5 September – get your tickets from the RSA/clubrooms bar or Muritai school office – get in quick!)

Wellington v Waikato - 2.35pm on 27 September

Wellington v Manawatu - 5.35pmon 10 October

Potential for guest appearances from original bench seating from both Athletic Park and Carisbrook! Rare opportunity to get your bums on a piece of history.

Wellington are also playing a number of 7.30pm night games that will be shown at the club, including home games at the Stadium – so get down to the club (or to the stadium) and support the LIONS.

See you there.

FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2015

Naumai e te whanau o te kura Muritai

Tena koutou katoa

The end of week 4 already! Welcome to Amy Mouat and Lily Brien who have joined the Muritai family this week. I am sure you will thoroughly enjoy your time at Muritai School.  

What a miserable start to the week it was but we managed to get through those wet days and enjoy the last couple of days where we could get out and run around. The children are to be congratulated for their conduct this week - they have been exceptional, when cabin fever and frustration could have been the norm!

We have had between 40 and 60 children a day away this week. There are lots of colds, sniffles and flu around at the moment so we are pleased that you are adhering to our advice to keep sick children away from school. School is quite intensive and if children are not well they find it very difficult to focus and maintain concentration in amongst 25 other children.

Just a reminder to call in to inform us if your child is going to be away from school. We have been making about 10 calls every day to track down children who are absent where we have received no notification. Please make sure that you call into our absence line on 562 8409.

We have our school disco tonight. Thank you to our wonderful group of parents at the Home and School who have done all the organisation and decoration to make it happen. It will be a fun night. Please, please, please collect your child, or make arrangements to have your child collected from the school hall.

Thank you to Kate, Nick, Dianne and Paul….who helped plant our new orchard on the field. These fruit trees - apples, pears, plums and feijoas were donated by the Hutt City Council and hopefully they can get their roots established, we can keep little fingers off them and the trees safe from rugby balls, etc. It is always a challenge but one worth having to add to the things we have at Muritai and adding to our school character.

We have received news recently that Stu Devenport, our associate principal of the senior school, has won the position of principal at South Makirikiri School in the Manawatu. Stu has been at Muritai since 2007 and has been an influential member of our teaching staff. Stu will finish up at Muritai at the end of this year and begin at his new school in 2016. We are all thrilled for Stu to be taking the next step in his career, and at such a highly rated country school as well. Congratulations Stu!

TOWARDS 2020.

The Board of Trustees and the staff have been working on planning ahead to develop some strategic ideas to take Muritai forward to the year 2020. The Board would like to invite parents to a ‘forward thinking session’ on Monday the 7th September from 7.30pm. If you would like to come along and be part of the process we would love to see you there.

To help start your thinking have a look at this wonderful talk on education from 2013 by Sir Ken Robinson.

YEAR 5-8 SCHOOL PRODUCTION

As it is week 5 next week we are starting the run in to this year’s arts production which this year sees us trying something a little different. Usually every 2 years we do a Wearable Arts show but in line with our ‘passions’ projects this year we are offering children some extra opportunities to produce a show that encompasses not only Wearable Arts but also drama, photography, visual arts and percussion.

Show dates are the 15th, 16th and 17th of September

ONTV

Capital E - The Wahine Experience.

On the 5th of August, eleven year 7 & 8’s ferried across the harbour to spend the morning at Capital E to make a news report about the Wahine disaster.

We already had our roles assigned as we’d done this at school along with writing our interviews and news reports. We then met Peter who was the director of the show. He showed us the layout and explained how the show would run. Then we moved through to the wardrobe area and got changed into the appropriate clothes, practiced and rehearsed.

Finally we filmed the whole show in one go from start to end, everybody did really well whether they did an acting role or did the camera and sound. It was very interesting learning about this historical event that happened in Wellington, the sinking of the Wahine.

For lunch we walked to a food court in the city. The only rule was that we had to spend our own money on whatever we bought. We then got to walk around the circular foodcourt. Most of the students ordered sushi. After everyone had eaten their lunches, we headed over to the ‘Frank kitts’ park on the waterfront to pass time. We observed and took photos of a sleeping sea lion that was resting on some rocks.

After going to the beautiful Frank Kitts park, we then walked to the museum and looked more into the interesting Wahine disaster. Then headed into a room showing a long and fascinating video of the Wahine disaster, after the video, everyone was allowed to go and explore the intriguing museum. Clicking all the interactive buttons and touring the whole museum was so much fun, I’m sure we’d all love to go there again.

Then we went back to the ferry to end the amazing trip we’d been on. Luckily the ferry ride was sunny and not bumpy. And once everyone had gotten onto the ferry, they got some fresh cold ice blocks to end the stunning day.

The Capital E trip was such a blast! Everyone had such a good time, filming the Wahine disaster, going to the food court for lunch, then Frank Kitts park afterwards, and going to the museum. We would all like to thank Mrs Hooke, Peter and everyone who helped for making this day happen.

Caylie Robinson

NUDE FOOD WEEK IS COMING

As an aim to reduce waste at our school and our impact on the environment, our enviro team are encouraging students to reduce their lunchbox waste.

You can help by choosing foods that are not single wrapped, using reusable lunch containers and cutting out Gladwrap where possible.  Initially we are encouraging children to take their waste away so they can see how much each of us as an individual or family create. Then to try and reduce that by choosing lunches that encourage zero waste. We will celebrate our changes with a total 'Nude Food' week in the next few weeks.

Thank you for supporting this student led initiative.

The Enviro Team.

FACT-A-THON

Keep encouraging your children to learn their basis facts ready for the Fact-A-Thon next week.  

ARTSPLASH AND DANCESPLASH

Tickets for the Artsplash and Dancesplash performances are for sale at the school office at $5 each.  Families are able to purchase 3 Artsplash tickets and only 2 Dancesplash tickets at the present time although we are operating a waitlist for extra tickets.  Performances are

• Artsplash - Monday 31 August
• Dancesplash - Friday 4 September

COMMUNITY NOTICES

Eastbourne Rugby Club ‘After Match’ Party

Get your babysitter booked, glad rags and dancing shoes out and join us at the local party of the year on Saturday 5th September at the 2015 Eastbourne Rugby Club 'After Match’.  Held at the Muritai School Hall from 7-midnight we have the brilliant Wellington covers band ‘The Shenanigans’ playing three sets through the night.

Tickets are $75 and include food through the evening (nibbles, curries and sweat treats) as well as bubbly on arrival and three complimentary alcoholic drinks (followed by a cash bar which will feature a selection of good wine and craft beer from the Sprig and Fern). You might even win a spot prize of tickets to the WOW Wearable Art Show.

And if that’s not enticing enough - the After Match is a fundraiser. All profits from the evening will go towards the refurbishment of the shared services club facilities (the RSA, rugby and cricket club) which will include installing three new stacker doors opening up to the beach front in time for summer.  

Everyone’s welcome. Tickets are limited and selling fast so get yours now from the Muritai school office.

For more information contact Annette on 021 027 07 886 or email annettesliper@yahoo.com

Rental Property to let

A 2 bedroom townhouse in Pitoitoi Road will be available for rent from mid-September.  $380 per week.  Please contact Brigitte Weber on 027-202-6670.

Fathers’ Breakfast – an annual event for dads, from The Parenting Place

Tuesday 1 Sept  |  7am to 8:30am  |  Shed 6, Queens Wharf, Wellington

There are two gifts we should give our children – one is roots, the other is wings. How do we juggle these priorities? Come to our annual Fathers' Breakfast and hear five top speakers talk from their hearts and share personal stories from their journey as a father – all to provide inspiration to help you with your role as a dad. Plus enjoy a cooked breakfast at the same time! Seats are limited so grab a mate and book a ticket, or a table today. Cost: $39pp.  Speakers include:

Conrad Smith - All Black and captain of the Hurricanes

Murray Edridge - Deputy CEO community investment, Ministry of Social Development

Paul Blackwell - Businessman and owner of the New Zealand Breakers

Pio Terei - Entertainer and presenter

Zane Scarborough - Programme director, The Parenting Place

MC Dave Atkinson – Creative Director of The Parenting Place

Visit www.theparentingplace.com to book.

ACTION REPLAY

Next week the “Action Replay” campaign launches across the Hutt. This campaign aims to gather donations of quality sports gear and recycle them into Hutt communities where deprivation is high. This project will help young people and families into a range of opportunities, reducing the risk of non-communicable disease and create happier communities.

Can you help? During the week August 17-21 there will be containers in four locations. We are interested in any item which you perceive will create a new opportunity for somebody to be active (but probably not ski gear, wooden tennis rackets or kayaks).

You might also earn browny points at home for (early) spring cleaning.

Your donation will go straight to where it is needed.

Much more on the project is visible here. http://bit.ly/1KPrDCC