Woolly idea a great gift for pupils

PUPILS at St Chad’s Primary School have jumped at the chance to help children in an area of rural Namibia devastated by flooding.

They donated 120 second-hand school jumpers for their counterparts at a school in Oshandi, close to the Angolan border. Both St Chad’s church and the school, in Uppermill, have close links with the community in southern Africa.

The majority of people in that part of the country live by subsistence farming on just £40 per month and the church has developed projects around education, support for families affected by HIV/AIDS and orphan aid.