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Millbrook Fairtrade cafe raises cash for polio eradication The Kirsty Farrow

After a talk by members of Rotary Club Swindon Old Town last November about the campaign to eradicate Dance Academy
polio worldwide, youngsters at Freshbrook’s Millbrook Primary School raised £150 by organising a cafe Classes for children
selling Fairtrade sourced products on two days in June.
and adults
“We decided to take a deeper saw a fi lm about Tabitha in India and friends who came to the cafe Pre School • Ballet
approach to ‘Africa’ by looking at who had to carry water from a well about trying to stop polio across Modern Tap • Musical Theatre
the specifi c issues affecting farmers to her house, but she couldn’t drink the world and also how we must Adult Jazz/Fitness and Tap
who grow our food,” said deputy it because it had polio in it.” try to help people who grow food Street Jazz
headteacher Helen Bartley. “The Ethan Ward described how pu- get money for their families.” Now in our own premises
children loved linking what they pils took on different tasks to run David Pratt of the Rotary Club at Headlands School
had learnt about the Rotary effort to the cafe. “Some of us cooked the said he was delighted how Mill- with branches in Hook Village
eradicate polio by doing something cakes, others served and others brook had taken the anti-polio Hall and Lechlade Memorial Hall
practical to help the people get a were cashiers. It was really good campaign to its heart. “This kind First class FREE of charge
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Maame Achemompong said, “we a lot. “We were able to tell parents most terrible of diseases.” www.thekirstyfarrowdanceacademy.com

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