Dear Yearr 7 Parent/Carers,
As most of you are new parents to Joeys, I just want to give you the heads up on something which is now in its 3rd year.
Over the last two years (with the help of the Joeys Family), we have been collecting second hand basketball shoes to send to the Philippines and Rugby boots to South Africa.
Over the next 3 weeks of this term, I am asking you, to help me stay good, on a promise I made to a mate of mine. If you are like me, you have every intention to help the less fortunate but continually put it on the back burner but my stupid mate actually went ahead and built a basketball court for the local kids in the Philippines……. What was he thinking!!!!
We have sent over 300 pairs of footwear on the flying Kangaroo, since we started and have placed smiles on many faces with something we usually place in the bin. Now that the Basketball season has finished, we are hoping we can add to this number.
This year we are spreading the love. We spun the world globe and our finger stopped on ‘Smokey Mountain’ – a community of 60,000 who live on one of the biggest rubbish tips in SE Asia, just outside Manilla
Over a cold soft drink, Chris McAlinden, dad of Aidan (2015) and I came up with the name for our drive “Joseph Jefferson Jackson Shoe Drive” ……… Why JJJSD you ask….. Google it!….. and they will come!
Anyway with the help of your current Boarding Coordinator (Sir James McKay) as a collection point, could I please ask that if you have any second hand Basketball shoes or Joggers collecting dust, could you please send them his way…… I can guarantee that by Term 4, your son’s shoes will not go close to fitting him.
Thanks for your support in advance.
Darren Junee
