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160 people walk for Sightsavers
On Sunday 4 December 2011, 160 pupils, parents and staff of Salesian College completed a six mile sponsored walk in aid of the ‘Vision 2020:- The Right to Sight’ campaign, which targets preventable and curable blindness in developing nations. The programme is run by Standard Chartered Bank to support charities such as Sightsavers International and they match all of the funds pledged to this appeal.
It was wonderful to see almost a quarter of all the Year 7s in attendance and a sizeable number of Year 11s. The walk followed the Basingstoke canal for much of the route and made a quick detour through Crookham Village and the grounds of Dogmersfield Park.
The sponsorship money is already coming in and I suspect that we will pass £30000 in total for the six years of this initiative. Our donation is the largest non-corporate one made to this appeal on an annual basis in the country and I wish to record my thanks to everyone who took part and raised some of that money.
