Lynne Featherstone MP yesterday launched the Schools for Africa Programme at Nightingale Primary School’s assembly. The whole Wood Green-based school is joining in the task of filling 24 gift boxes with goodies to send to orphaned children in Kenya for Christmas as part of their black history month celebration.

To mark the launch of the programme, Lynne Featherstone spoke at assembly about poverty and HIV/Aids in Africa, as the boxes are going to kids orphaned by the disease.

On Monday, the local MP also met with four of the school’s students as they attended the official launch of School for Africa at Parliament.

Lynne Featherstone commented:

“Most of the children supported by Schools for Africa have lost everything – their parents and their homes. Very often they are sick too. The gift boxes are sometimes the first gifts they ever receive.

“That’s why I am so proud that the students at Nightingale Primary are so keen to join in and help the kids in Kenya. It was great to hear the enthusiasm with which they suggested stuff to fill the boxes with. I’m sure Christmas will be extra special for the kids who get the Nightingale boxes.”