Kerry tractor to the rescue in east Africa — thanks to our small ads

WHEN Donald Nunan placed a classified advertisement here in the pages of the Irish Examiner Farming section, what he was seeking was above and beyond the normal range of agricultural goods and services that are advertised in the paper.

On behalf of a Mallow, Co Cork, charity, he was requesting the donation of a tractor for a parish in the diocese of Mahenge in Tanzania, where people had only hoes to cultivate the earth by hand.

There was no immediate response to his classified ad, and the Mahenge Diocese Educational Trust went on as usual with its mission to raise funds for various projects.