KIDZ 4 KIDZ School in a Bag

Binsted School Walks to Ukraine!

Can you help us to help the Children in Ukraine who have not had access to proper education for over ten academic terms!! (over 3years).

Mr Butler, visited school last term to talk to our children about KIDZ 4 KIDZ. This is an appeal to help those school children in great need in Ukraine which is sadly still affected by the ongoing war.

Simon and Nick are farmers based at Hartley Park Farm, Selborne and run the businesses, Barn-Store Alton and The Lavender Fields alongside the main farm. They also have business units and one of their tenants is CCLL-The Helping Hand for Ukraine (charity no 1014274 sc 0040 136) who have been working to relieve and support children and their families living on land still contaminated by the after-effects of the Chernobyl disaster for over 30 years.

Since the Covid years and now the outbreak of war in Ukraine the call on the Charity and its resources have been growing exponentially. In particular, more and more children are found to have not been receiving the core elements of education due to the loss of power, damage to schools and lack of other basic resources.

The Charity receives no Government funding, relying solely on the goodwill of its supporters and donations received.

School In A Bag (SIAB), a UK charity that does as it “says on the tin” providing a child’s essential school supplies in a school bag have been working closely with CCLL over a number of years. This time they are offering to donate nearly 500 rucksacks for children in Ukraine.

The Butlers and their 2 businesses, Barn-Store and The Lavender Fields are contributing £1000 to start this appeal to try and help pay to send the rucksacks with school supplies in, clothes, torches, basic medical supplies and many other desperately needed supplies.

We as a school are keen to support this work and as such have come up with a fundraising challenge for the children to take part in.

The distance between Binsted School and the border of Ukraine is 1161 miles. It is a long way to take all those supplies. We have challenged the children of Binsted to cover that distance by working together over the next few weeks. We will have a map on display with the Binsted Bus travelling along the route and will update the pupils each week on our progress in the school newsletter.

On Friday 7th June we are planning a whole school walk to cover the last few miles on our journey and will finish with a picnic at the Binsted Rec, weather permitting.

We are very excited to see if we can make it all the way to Ukraine! Thank you for your support!