Luxembourg, Clinique St Zithe, 10 February 2010

© Photo by Steve Eastwood

More than 410 school children in Malawi in southeast Africa no longer have to sit on the floor in class, thanks to a donation from the Lions Club Erasmus in Luxembourg. It’s not uncommon for a Malawi classroom to hold 100 pupils. “They will now sit on benches at proper tables, which is wonderful,” said Sister Brigitte Schneiders, who received the 5,500 € cheque at the Zitha hospital on Wednesday night from the hands of the Club’s vice-president, Petra Berndt.

“Malawi is a small, poor country so it is only fitting that Luxembourg, a small, rich country should provide help,” said Sister Brigitte who belongs to the Luxembourg Tertiary Carmelites and whose order has helped the people of Malawi for over 50 years now, building permanent and mobile hospitals, a training center, sanitation systems and digging wells. “This donation by Lions Club Erasmus will help finance the refurbishing of the four oldest classrooms in the primary school of the Ganya mission station in Malawi.”

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The 5th Annual Relais de la Vie, organized by the Luxembourg Foundation against Cancer (Fondation Luxembourgeoise Contre le Cancer), will take place from Saturday, March 6, at 19h to Sunday, March 7, 20h at the Coque, Kirchberg.

The event aims to promote solidarity both with the general public and patients, to break the taboo of cancer. For the first time, the Lions Club Erasmus has entered a team.

Although it is too late for you to participate in the event, you are warmly welcome to attend and show your solidarity!

Admission is free to the information booths, workshops, sports, children's workshops, restaurants, exhibition, etc. and all revenues will go towards the Foundation.