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Exhibition draws support CYCLe rePAIrS

for Kathmandu orphanage Free collection
A display of pictures on the theme Angels Are Not Just for Christmas & delivery from
to raise awareness for an orphanage in Nepal, can be viewed at West home or work
Swindon Library, from 6 to 30 September.
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Some of the youngsters from Catherine Wayte Primary School
who painted pictures for the exhibition
Through publicity by the charity feel welcome and loved.
and The Link, children in Swindon “We’re delighted with the re-
were asked to draw a picture of an sponse to the competition; there
angel, imagined as a good helper. will be a splendid array of pictures,
The orphanage for abandoned all done with such enthusiasm and
children was set up by a sherpa love,” added Rosa. “We are asking
guide called Angel and his wife the public to vote for their top five,
whom Highworth couple Rosa and from which we can create cards
Ian Matheson befriended on a trip for sale. But, everyone wins in an
to Nepal in 2009. Since then they event like this; having your picture
have been building support for the exhibited is such a thrill and more
charity set up to help the orphan- people will become aware of Angels
age and assist Angel provide better and perhaps assist the Friends in
accommodation and an education different ways in the future.”
for the children. • To find out more, meet the Friends
HK’97
“It has been a crazily busy time of Angels Orphanage at West
both with fundraising and at the Swindon Library on Wednesday 14
orphanage,” said Rosa. “In April the September, 4pm to 7pm. HK’97
children moved to a school much www.angelsorphanage.com
closer to their home, where they
One who has helped Angels
already is Libby Frankel, 11,
from Old Town, right, who raised
£30 from two sales of toys. She
said, “the children at Angel’s
don’t have mums or dads and
not many toys. I enjoyed selling
things, it helped me with my
maths working out the money
and giving change.”
Children at Shaw Ridge Primary School drummed for an hour with teacher
Paul Ashman to raise money for the Joe Homan Boys Town school in
Thailand which is supported by former teacher Midge McCormack

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