THE Literacy in a Box Trust loaded the 100th box of its 'School Aid 4 Zambia' programme onto an Operation Sunshine container.

Operation Sunshine is a Christian charity based in Tavistock, and the Literacy in a Box Trust is a Plymouth-based charity working in partnership with the Rotary Club of Roborough.

The box was one of 16 literacy boxes loaded in an Operation Sunshine container, along with all their equipment and supplies, collected to help villages in Zambia — the trust has now sent enough materials for 2,500 children in eleven schools.

The container is now being shipped and after its sea journey it will arrive in the Tanzanian port of Dar-es-Salaam, before travelling by road to Zambia and customs in Lusaka.

Having cleared customs, the contents of the container are split up and taken to the communities in their destination villages, while the literacy boxes are taken to their target schools in Zambia.

Although the object of the trust is to support children and their teachers in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve their educational aims, the reality is that in Zambia alone it would need 250,000 boxes, just to give every child some paper and a pencil.

Anyone who would like to support the work of the trust can contact Ian Parker on 01752 787058 or visit http://www.literacyboxtrust.org.uk">www.literacyboxtrust.org.uk