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MEMBERS of Mid Argyll Rotary Club were out in force last Saturday for a Co-op bag pack at Lochgilphead to raise funds for the library of African literature at the Mthunzi Centre in Zambia.
The Lochgilphead membership voted to make the Mid Argyll-based Mthunzi and Lilanda Initiative (MALI) its 2008 international charity and the bag pack is just one of the fund-raisers that will be staged in coming months.
The Mthunzi and Lilanda Initiative received charitable status last year, but the public in Mid Argyll has been supporting the fund for some years.
MALI hopes to bring the group back to Lochgilphead in August of this year to work with young musicians in the area.
MALI chairwoman Marian Pallister said: ‘The bread and butter of the work we do is to pay the school fees of the young people who are cared for by the two projects we support, to buy text books and to stock the library of African literature which we’ve set up.’
She added: ‘The Mthunzi Centre is a residential centre for former street children and the Lilanda project is a school for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS and other chronic illness. Both are situated on the outskirts of Lusaka and a number of people from Mid Argyll have visited them a number of times.’
