Third World Aid

The May issue of 'The Local Planet' will carry a children's supplement. It will be circulated and promoted in every national school throughout the country in an attempt to raise funds for Third World Aid.

The Kibiko Committee in Ballyboy Co. Offaly have connections with this area through the 'Institute of Charity' who have undertaken the development of Kibiko town and Ewuaso Enkidongi parish, Kenya, East Africa.

This is a vast area 9,000km2, populated mainly by the Maasai and Kikuyu tribes.

However, it is extremely underdeveloped and poor. The existing infrastructure is negligible to non-existent; water schemes, schools, medical facilities and community centres are needed to improve the lives of the people who live there.

To this end the Kibiko Committee in Ballyboy have begun a fund-raising campaign. Our first project was 'A Light for Ewuaso'. We bag packed with the support of local schools until we had enough funds raised for solar panels for the rudimentary hall at Ewuaso where students may now study in the evenings.

Our present initiative aims at raising the 50,000-euro necessary to build a Community Centre at Kibiko, Kenya. In conjunction with 'The Planet' we hope to publicize the plight of the parish of Ewuaso Enkidongi. In the May issue of 'The Planet' special tokens will be printed. For every token from the paper that is returned to us, the publishers have agreed to donate 50 cents to the building project in Kenya.
The newspaper will be circulated to all schools in the 32 counties and will therefore reach many homes.

This project has been endorsed by a number of celebrities notably Pat Shortt.
What are we asking you to do?
Encourage your school community i.e. pupils, teachers, parents and friends to buy the May issue of 'The Local Planet'.

Donations also welcome to
A.I.B Bank 65/67 O Connell St,
Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
A/C No: N0016297 Sorting Code 93 53 79
A/C Name: IPIC Ewuaso Account
CHARITY NO: 3695(1960)