Outside Bootham School. Photo: Courtesy Bootham School.
Change against chains at Bootham School
Bootham School students raise £1,000 for International Justice Mission
Students at Bootham School in York have collected £1,100 in loose change to help break the chains of modern day slavery.
The money raised will go to the International Justice Mission (IJM), an organisation that protects the poor from violence in the developing world.
It is made up of more than 750 lawyers, investigators, social workers, community activists and other professionals at work through seventeen field offices.
More than 40,000 coins, weighing a quarter of a tonne, were collected. It took bank staff more than three hours to put the money through their coin-counting machines.
Teacher Mark Robinson said: ‘This was a student-led campaign. They liaised with IJM, collected the money from members of the school community and dealt with the logistics of handling, storing, counting and transporting the money.’
