PUPILS, staff and parents of Mary Tavy and Brentor Community Primary School held a successful harvest festival recently, raising enough money to buy an Aquabox.

The festival, at St Mary's Church in Mary Tavy, raised £93.11, which was used to buy an Aquabox — a robust plastic box, filled with water purification tablets and welfare items, which is sent to disaster areas.

Jill Bassett, school administrator, said: 'People have donated lots of things to put in the Aquabox like baby clothes and toiletries. The children brought in carrier bags filled with toys and old clothes.'

The Aquabox can be used to purify and store up to 1,100 litres of drinking water — enough to last a family of four, drinking ten cups a day, for four months.

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James Bird