December 5th is International Volunteers Day, and Cans For Kids invited companies, corporations, students, schoolchildren and individuals to give up two hours of their time to participate in some “hands on” volunteering: sorting cans for recycling.

   Despite a gloomy weather forecast, the response was very good: the Falcon School supported us again with a bus load of enthusiastic youngsters, and some people even travelled up from Larnaca!

   Unfazed when it started to pour with rain, those at the morning session stuck to the task in hand and left us wet, but satisfied with a job very well done. In fact, we were obliged to bale about 320 kilos of the cans sorted in the morning to make enough space for the afternoon volunteers to work under the roof, which afforded them some protection from the elements.