MEMBERS of Penarth and District Lesotho Trust (PADLT) recently visited the African country to oversee their Lego donation.

Penarth and District Lesotho Trust (PADLT) has formed close links with Lesotho which has included supporting a school called the TY junior academy.

Rosemary and Jeremy Dix from the group were there to help distribute more than 100,000 pieces of Lego, which the people of Penarth helped to collect in a recent project, to over twenty schools.

They held "very rewarding" work shops with many teachers who they said were excited by the way that Lego could be used in education.

They also expressed their deep concern over the situation in Lesotho following the recent crisis caused by lack of rain.

Mrs Dix said: "The so-called 'green drought' has resulted in failed maize crops and dry ponds and river beds.

"The land looks green because of a little recent rain which has come too late, as winter now approaches."

She explained that although the people are not starving yet, as last year's supplies run out, there will be none to replace them.

She added: "Three years ago Khotso, which means peace, was found starving and abandoned with her baby sister both left by a desperate, starving mother.

"Fortunately for them, they were rescued by Father Augustine and taken to St Cecilia's Orphanage, without which they would have died.

"Hundreds of children like Khotso will die this next winter if no outside food aid reaches Lesotho."