24 Jun 2006 - Three Rivers Volunteers to the Rescue
Volunteers from all over Three Rivers stepped up at short notice and helped raise almost £10,000 for children and women in need on Friday.The Monsoon Trust, which works in disaster relief, health and education for children and young women on the Indian sub-continent asked Three Rivers Volunteer Centre for help in setting up their sample sale on Saturday June 24.
Pictured from left: Lynn Green, Diane Kafka, Amna Malik, Teresa Reid, and Gillian Lipton.
The sale of original Accessorize and Monsoon clothing at the Old Free School in George Street, Watford, is the first time the Trust has ventured out of London and it desperately needed volunteers to make it possible.
Gillian Lipton, Charity Manager for the Monsoon Trust, contacted Lynn Green at the Volunteer Centre in Three Rivers and within hours she found more than a dozen people willing to help out.
The impromptu team of volunteers unloaded scores of boxes, unpacked and arranged clothing in time for the sale on Saturday.
Gillian said: "Considering it was such short notice the response has been marvellous, if it wasn?t for the Three Rivers volunteers we would have been here until midnight on Friday.
"They are the best volunteers I've ever worked with.
"The sale raised £9,800 which will go to helping children and young women on the Indian sub-continent. We will definitely be coming back to Watford again."
Amna Malik, who will soon be volunteering at Divine Saviour School, said: "I came down because it was a worthwhile cause and it sounded like fun."
British Heart Foundation volunteer Diane Kafka said: "I like to be busy and get involved when it is a worthwhile charity."
Volunteer Centre manager Lynn Green said: "I always felt that the volunteers in Three Rivers were a special bunch - within 24 hours of my appeal we had found 15 volunteers for the Trust. They have all given up their free time for a day of hard work for the benefit of others, without people like these our communities would be poorer places. A huge thank you to all of them."
Gillian Lipton, Charity Manager for the Monsoon Trust, contacted Lynn Green at the Volunteer Centre in Three Rivers and within hours she found more than a dozen people willing to help out.
The impromptu team of volunteers unloaded scores of boxes, unpacked and arranged clothing in time for the sale on Saturday.
Gillian said: "Considering it was such short notice the response has been marvellous, if it wasn?t for the Three Rivers volunteers we would have been here until midnight on Friday.
"They are the best volunteers I've ever worked with.
"The sale raised £9,800 which will go to helping children and young women on the Indian sub-continent. We will definitely be coming back to Watford again."
Amna Malik, who will soon be volunteering at Divine Saviour School, said: "I came down because it was a worthwhile cause and it sounded like fun."
British Heart Foundation volunteer Diane Kafka said: "I like to be busy and get involved when it is a worthwhile charity."
Volunteer Centre manager Lynn Green said: "I always felt that the volunteers in Three Rivers were a special bunch - within 24 hours of my appeal we had found 15 volunteers for the Trust. They have all given up their free time for a day of hard work for the benefit of others, without people like these our communities would be poorer places. A huge thank you to all of them."