Kim Clijsters has donated the contents of her discontinued Kim Clijsters Academy to the victims of the flood in Wallonia. Volunteers from her hometown of Bree and the surrounding area brought the items from the tennis academy to the Walloon families. That is what Het Belang van Limburg writes today and the news is confirmed to Belga by the team of volunteers.
After the flood in Wallonia, many volunteers started collecting relief goods and funds for the victims. This includes Myrese Jaspers and a team of volunteers from Bree and the surrounding area, who have already brought dozens of trucks with stuff to the victims.
They were therefore also contacted by Kim Clijsters’ aunt to bring the furniture of the Kim Clijsters Academy to Wallonia. The items from the Breese tennis academy were disassembled and collected last week. It concerned two trucks with, among other things, wardrobes, desks, beds and household appliances.
Fifty families
“We received the offer from Kim Clijsters to donate the furniture of her tennis academy to the affected families in Wallonia. We therefore accepted the offer with both hands,” says Myrese Jaspers. “We drove for two days to distribute everything, each time distributing 25 families. In total, our team of volunteers made another 50 families happy.”
After thirteen months, Jaspers is now putting an end to her aid campaign for Wallonia. “For more than a year, massive donations were made from all corners of Limburg, for which we are very grateful,” she says. “But now it is time for us to resume our work and let the people in Wallonia get back on track.”
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