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Before I 'wax lyrical', and set about regaling tales of our trials and tribulations, as well as the passions and frustrations, I/we really need to thank you, everyone here at home in the UK …….. those of you who are reading this now, who so tirelessly, and with such determination and compassion, provide us with so many wonderful, and frankly often priceless donations of assorted aid that we give away with your love, to complete strangers; people who more often than not, are living in what seems like another world, indeed on another planet!...........read the full report

Food and clothes, shoes and toiletries, walking frames and wheelchairs, spectacles and tools……….and the things that you make so lovingly, knitted blankets made up from squares, knitted clowns, used butter dishes filled with toiletries, shoe boxes filled with goodies, exercise books made from recycled paper, and ladies handbags filled with treasures……….
I can't think of a better way to express just how much pleasure all these small but such important gifts bring to the people who we try to help, than to share a poem with you, written after a trip by one of our convoyers, Claire Stevens…….it goes like this…… read the full report

Who Was It?

Who parted with that purple bag? who thought it fit for aid?
The one that clearly cost a fortune, now polished to a fade.
I saw it opened by frail hands, eyes dancing at the gleam.
It could have been the perfume, or it may have been the cream.
For what I saw upon her face, the joy, no money one could pay.
To see the lipstick colour, oh, to feel it on display.
I saw this lady daub her lips, the bag fiercely guarded.
I wish you could have seen her smile, your effort so rewarded!
Whoever gave that purple bag, you made it all so worth it!

Convoy 'Wrap up'
report for Montenegro
July 2010,

If you've read my previous 'balderdash' reports, you'll know, and probably expect to read of bureaucracy, obstacles, frustrations, tears, and joy, all rolled into one, and this report's certainly got all that …again…!

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