Kenya Aid Foundation is especially grateful to the Attercliffe-based L&TA Group, specialists in recycling redundant office furniture as an alternative to landfill, for their recent donation of chairs, desks, filing cabinets, meeting tables, cupboards and canteen furniture.
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Up to 400 tonnes of redundant office furniture had been destined for a landfill site before L&TA were called into the Department of Education offices in Sheffield. About a third of this has been donated to Kenya Aid Foundation, while the rest will go to help small local businesses and start-ups.
The story has been covered by the Yorkshire Post and the Sheffield Telegraph. Terry Askew, Managing Director of L&TA, notes, “When I heard how much [furniture] there was I got in contact with the Kenya Aid Foundation, which will send a lot of it to Africa.”
This furniture will make a big difference to the educational and community projects that Kenya Aid Foundation works with throughout Nairobi and the Rift Valley Province. Following our shipment of furniture in May 2010, we look forward to distributing this latest donation to projects where even the most basic of supplies are lacking.
