Leamington charity founder’s legacy lives on in Indian school – but more funds needed
by The Daily Eye Team February 3 2014, 11:39 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 33 secsThe legacy of former Campion School pupil and Leamington man Gilly Mundy, who died in 2007, lives on as a charity he founded continues to make progress.
The Gilly Mundy Memorial Community School in the village of Lehrian in the Haryana district of India now has more than 600 pupils, 32 teachers and 21 support staff and work on building a third floor of the school has recently been completed.
The school was set up and and is maintained by the Buwan Kothi International Trust (BKIT), a charity to support Haryana’s rural communities that Gilly founded just a year before his sudden death. He was 36 when he died.