英國一間已經停辦的學校，把校內設備，包括課桌椅、圖書館藏書、鋼琴、教具、甚至黑板和遊戲設施，全部捐給非洲國家迦納。
那間英國學校今年暑假停辦，透過一個在非洲助學的公益組織安排，它們把學校設備，一件不留的全部捐給迦納，要送給一間籌辦中的幼稚園。
公益組織透過各種各樣的方式，提昇非洲孩子的就學率，最常做的就是供應免費的餐食，鼓勵家長送孩子去上學，這還是它們第一次募捐到一整座學校的設備。
義工們犧牲聖誕節，把捐品裝入貨櫃，它預計會在明年一月抵達迦納，正在籌辦中的幼稚園，預計招收96個學齡前兒童，這些孩子連書本長甚麼樣子，都沒見過，拜善心人之賜，他們入學的時候，將有一整座圖書館等著他們。
原文：http://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20131227003241-260408
Some of the children have never seen a book before
The equipment is for a new teaching block at Karbo Primary School
Wiltshire charity ships contents of Yorkshire prep school to Africa
The entire contents of a former prep school in north Yorkshire is being shipped out to a school in Africa.
Furniture, books and a billiard table are among the items donated by the independent school, which closed in the summer but wants to remain anonymous.
The 40ft (12m) shipping container is being sent out to pupils in Lawra in Ghana by Wiltshire based charity, Action Through Enterprise (ATE).
Sarah Gardner, from ATE, said: "We've been given everything - it's amazing."
ATE, which was set up by Ms Gardner, runs a number of schemes in the rural upper west region of Ghana.
One of its support programs includes giving free school meals to 450 children at Karbo Primary School in Lawra, in a bid to boost attendance.
But it was the charity's search for wheelchairs that put them in contact with Peter Thompson at North Yorkshire-based charity, PhysioNet.
"It was a bit unusual for us to have an entire school being donated, we normally provide special needs equipment," said Mr Thompson.
"But Sarah had mentioned that they were building a kindergarten and were looking for school equipment.
"And I had come across a prep school that had closed down in the summer, that was happy for us to take the lot."
In three "very big lorries", volunteers at Physionet not only collected the entire contents of the school but also its library of textbooks, the school piano and its playground equipment.
'Never seen books'
"I found out a few weeks ago and was absolutely overjoyed," said Ms Gardner.
"I've never seen anything like it. We've been given everything - furnishings, desks, chairs, a full library with boxes and boxes of books.
"[The school] has nothing so everything will be used."
In the run up to Christmas, volunteers from both charities filled a vast shipping container "to the brim" with the contents of the school which is due to arrive in Ghana at the beginning of January.
"We're building a kindergarten unit for 96 because they're learning in a cupboard at the moment," said Ms Gardner.
"It's a really exciting project because these children have never seen books before and now they're going to have a whole library."
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