Teen spearheads book drive for under-funded Rarotonga schoolchildrenDAVID UNWIN/STUFF Feilding student Louise Gainford has gathered nearly 1500 books to help schoolchildren in Rarotonga. Louise Gainford has gathered 1500 books and raised $3200 for stationery to boost underfunded schools in the Cook Islands. SUPPLIED Apii Avarua is one school in Rarotonga that is benefiting from Louise Gainford's book drive. DAVID UNWIN/STUFF Louise Gainford has collected books and stationary from about 40 schools to send over to pupils in Rarotonga. We complain the whole year about having to go to school, yet we get books, stationery, computers.

Source: Stuff December 29, 2017 00:24 UTC