President Barbara Sanderson, right, with past president Valerie Ludlam and some of the International Aid Trust box contents
SKIPTON Soroptimist president Barbara Sanderson and friends are assembling Christmas shoeboxes for disadvantaged children as part of the International Aid Trust.
A coffee morning held in the town's Soroptimist Rooms raised £335 and 44 shoeboxes full of items for children and two adults will be donated to the trust.
A recent quiz night and pie and pea supper raised £228 for the Soroptimist International's Birthing in Gambia Appeal and fees and donations from Pat and Philip Alker's talk on Chile were sent to Project Dukem which supports a school for HIV/Aids orphans, disadvantaged and abused children in Dukem, Ethiopia.
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