Hay2Timbuktu are holding an open meeting on Wednesday 16th March, at 7pm at the Swan.
What they want to discuss is the future of the organisation - should they cease their activities, or pause, or something else? Several of the trustees are stepping down, so they want to know whether people in Hay would like them to find new trustees and continue, or wind up their operations.
Over the years, they have raised money for new girls' toilets for the high schools in Timbuktu, and provided solar powered lamps to help children do their homework, as well as several other projects since Timbuktu twinned with Hay in 2007. It's become more difficult in recent years because of the unrest in Mali, and the fact that several sources of funding in the UK have dried up.
If anyone would like to go to the meeting, please email the organisers at info@hay2timbuktu.org and also use the email if you have ideas or thoughts to share, but are unable to come to the meeting.
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