Rotary book fair a first step toward saving lives
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A local club is hoping to transform 100,000 books into life-saving medical equipment.
Alfriston Rotary Club is holding a book fair in Takanini next month and president Simon Gleeson says the money raised will buy equipment for the neonatal intensive care unit at Kidz First children's hospital and for breast cancer screening.
In three months the club's members have collected 20,000 books – a good effort but still 80,000 short of their target.
Mr Gleeson says the club has arranged three drop-off spots to make it easy for people to contribute their unwanted books, textbooks, comics, DVDs, CDs, magazines and jigsaw puzzles.
"It's a great opportunity for a clean-out, as I found. I managed to fill 10 boxes," he says.
The drop-off spots are Hillpark Care Chemist in Hillpark, Barfoot & Thompson in Clevedon and Liban Superette in The Gardens.
People can email rotarybookfair@slingshot.co.nz to have boxes of books collected, or for more information.
The book will be held on April 8-10.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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