Calabar Alumni Florida has endorsed this direct appeal to the Calabar Family. An appeal for donor funds and volunteer hands. Containers depart South Florida. For more background information, see details here.

The Opportunity

A large quantity of quality school furniture has become available in South Florida: student desk-and-chair combinations, teachers' desks, computer desks, laboratory tables, and stools. Much of it is in excellent condition and would cost tens of thousands of dollars to purchase new. Rather than see it go to waste, a group of Jamaican old boys has secured it for schools back home. This effort is being spearheaded by Mr. Neville Bell, Cornwall College Old Boys Association Mid-Atlantic, Trevor Tomlinson, CCOBA-New York, and Phillip Wallace, CCAA-South Florida, working alongside alumni of many schools, including Danny Miles an Old Boys of  Calabar High School. The furniture has been inspected and measured, and it is ready to be loaded. The only thing standing between these desks and Jamaican classrooms is the cost of getting them there.

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​Volunteers to load

We are also asking Old Boys in the South Florida area to lend a hand loading the furniture onto the trailers. Desks and chairs are heavy and there are hundreds of them, so many hands will make this a short day's work. IF YOU CAN HELP LOAD THE TRAILERS  AT 6 AM IN WEST PALM BEACH AT 4701 10TH AVE N., GREENACRES, FLORIDA 33463.