Once again a box full of kiddies clothes and teddy bears has arrived safely, My contact in Cape Town will deliver them to the most needy Thanks everybody and heres a word from Jo

HI Nicky,

Thanks once again to all your friends in Mallorca – the parcel arrived on Monday.  Sorry it has taken me a while to confirm its arrival, but Mandela’s 67 minutes got in the way.  Many groups spent their time making sleeping bags for the homeless which meant I was on duty to demonstrate.  UCT have taken on this project in a big way – not the students yet, but the staff of various faculties.

I hope you won’t mind but I am giving the latest parcel to Dr. Paul Roux who is taking a whole heap of stuff up to Peddie on Friday.  I think I might have mentioned that he has started a clinic in the rural area and the people there are unbelievably poor.  Paul and Debbie (both members and ex Presidents of my Rotary Club) cycled 1000 kms from Peddie to Cape Town to raise enough money to purchase a vehicle to transport the ill and elderly patients from surrounding areas to the clinic. This they did while I was away.  They raised enough and Rotary then paid in the difference for the required vehicle.

Paul has come and gone with his 4 x 5 fully laden with kids clothing, adult clothing, toys, two bags of shoes and about 40 kgs of health bar off cuts I collected from Michaels & Michaels this morning.

I am trying to sort out my garage and to distribute anything I no longer will need in Shady Pines. I thought I had got rid of everything when I moved, but found two huge containers of photographs going back about 60 years.  I doubt my daughter will be interested once I am gone, so albums (minus a few photographs of friends) are all going into the garbage bin.  All the toys I bought for the grandchildren have gone with Paul as my spoilt grandchildren have enough of everything.  Books and puzzles will go to the paediatric ward at Groote Schuur.  See everything has a home somewhere.

Many many thanks Nicky – you know how much I and everyone appreciates the trouble you go to.

I will now have to make friends with the chaps at the Howard Centre Post Office in Pinelands.

Warmest regards and sincere good wishes to all,

Jo

Jo Maxwell

5 Pillans Court

Pillans Road

Rosebank

7700

Tel: 021 685-4517