A part of our business is taken up with making trolleys for hospitals and aged care homes. We had some excess floor stock recently, so we decided to donate them to a project that our Church is involved in. The “New Beginnings Childrens Village” has been built in Zambia, and is showing some really positive results. Read more about it here.
The 7 or so trolleys will be used either in the childrens village, or maybe in the associated hospital.
Derek, Leah and I put some time into cleaning them up, making sure all the wheels were strong and ready to make the journey in a container.
Some were laundry bag trolleys, some utility trolleys. I believe
the hospital was going to benefit from the locked compartments and drawers on the trolleys to help with the security of medications etc in the wards.
We dropped them off to David and Ros Van Der Vooren, so they could be transferred to Ashmore, then Brisbane, then by sea container to Zambia. The generosity of the Gold Coast was evidenced by David & Ros’s bulging sheds.
We would find it very difficult to donate $4,000 -odd in cash, but as our manufactured product, and some dated models, we were pleased see that someone will get real benefit.