At a lunch, earlier this year President John presented a 
cheque to Bill Brown of the International Aid Trust.  
This was to purchase a new and larger trailer to replace 
the previous one. The new one will be over 40ft long.
Appart from complying with new European Transport rules
it will be able to carry more aid to where it is needed. 


With President John and Bill was Jim Collier of the District International Committee 
and the Ashton with Haydock Rotary Club.




Here we see President John Shaw, Secretary Austin Polding, 
and Rotarians Bob Thomson and Jim Collier with the newly 
badged trailer ready to roam Eastern Europe full of AID.

The Trailer will be used, not just to transport Rotary Shoeboxes
to District's recipients in Eastern European countries, but also 
to deliver other humanitarian aid to the similar locations.
By Easter of 2005, it had already covered more than 40,000 miles 
in return journeys to Rumania and beyond.