A GIGANTIC garage sale in Ocean Grove at the weekend raised more than $3,700 to help rebuild the collapsed home of a mother and her teenage son in Uganda.<\/p>\n
Heather Hallam said Livingstone\u2019s Great (Gigantic) Garage Sale (LGGS) was a huge success, with the incredible amount of $3741.20 raised on the day.<\/p>\n
Heather is a co-sponsor with Mark Wilkinson of 18 children living in some of the poorest countries in the world, and earlier this year, the pair went to Uganda to visit one of their poorest sponsor children Livingstone, 16, and discovered that the one-room home in which he and his mother Sarah had been living, had fallen down.<\/p>\n
Heather said the \u201cLivingstone House Rebuild Fund\u201d hoped to raise $10,000, which was what it would cost to build a small house for Sarah and Livingstone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe now only need about $1,200 for the house build to be able to commence,\u201d Heather said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to raise some extra money though beyond that amount, so we can buy a single bed, plus a chair each for Sarah and Livingstone, plus potentially also a small chest of drawers (so their small amount of belongings are no longer being kept in boxes) and some lino for the floor to cover the concrete.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the front of the little home will have a tiny shop front, I would also like to supply some goods to initially supply the very, very little shop.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are still a reasonable amount of items left over from the garage sale, so another will be held on Saturday November 3 at Powell Street West (look for the signs) in Ocean Grove.<\/p>\n
For more information, to buy a brick ($10 each) or to donate, visit livingstonehouserebuildfund.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A GIGANTIC garage sale in Ocean Grove at the weekend raised more than $3,700 to help rebuild the collapsed home of a mother and her teenage son in Uganda. Heather Hallam said Livingstone\u2019s Great (Gigantic) Garage Sale (LGGS) was a huge success, with the incredible amount of $3741.20 raised on the day. Heather is a […]<\/p>\n