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“Our partnership started with Waste to Wonder 10 years ago when they sent their first School in a Box to us in Romania, after being introduced by the Rotary Club of Brackley. Through their customers’ donations, we’ve equipped a full school, from computers to desks to chairs to cabinets – everything that was needed was provided. 

Prior to these donations, the schools here had such old, broken and even dangerous furniture, so these items with school supplies were extremely useful. Together with the Rotary club, they also sent kits for training young people in sowing, woodwork and mechanics. It’s been a truly amazing collaboration. 

Over the years we’ve kept in touch and recently we became also social enterprise. We aim not to just hand out charitable items to people, but we try to teach them ‘how to fish’. Our aim is through vocational training, to help people get a job and provide for their families.

Waste to Wonder comes in perfectly because they send us second hand furniture that’s dismantled. We put it together with the young people here: they learn joinery, they learn remedial work, and some is repurposed to make them suitable for our needs, such as singular desks for COVID compliance.  

We get a lot of tabletops so we build houses, homes for families and we use table tops to make panels for the walls and even for the foundations.

Before the pandemic, we relied a lot on volunteers but for the last six months, the School in a Box donations that have kept us going. Thankfully we received three containers of new furniture in November. We gave out supplies to families and part of it we’re selling to support the salaries and cover the costs of our charity work.”