Pupils have poverty in the bag

CHILDREN have been collecting clothes, towels, toothpaste, pencils and notebooks to send to children living in poverty as part of a Lent school project.

Pupils from St John Vianney Primary in the Inch, along with the two local parishes of St John Vianney's and St Gregory's, have been filling backpacks with the items to donate to the Mary's Meals charity, which runs feeding programmes in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Pupils were asked to find some of their own things at home which they no longer used and they ended up filling 78 bags.

Deputy headteacher Susan Blaney said: "I am overwhelmed by the amount of support we have had."