A charity in Ireland is offering a €20,000 reward for information that leads to the recovery of a stolen shipping container, which is filled with LEGO sets originally meant for children in Malawi.
The container was stolen in March 2025 outside a house in County Laois, but Irish charity Ulemu.com says new information has ‘renewed determination to recover the stolen goods’, which consist of LEGO sets and school books and are valued at more than €50,000 in total.
“From day one, we knew this container couldn’t just vanish,” said Evin Joyce, Director of Ulemu.com. “We’ve received new information, which has been passed to An Garda Síochána. I hope this reward will come to the attention of people with key information to help us get it back.”
The contents of the container were donated by children from schools all across Ireland, and were destined to be delivered to children on Malawi’s Chisi Island. The charity’s leading donor Cathal O’Connor, whose family business O’Connor Cabins originally donated the shipping container, has fronted the cash for the €20,000 reward.
“The container and its contents are worth more than €50,000,” said O’Connor. “It’s a pity that it’s necessary but if this reward money gets the LEGO and school books to the children they were donated to, it will be well spent.”
The container is grey, 20 feet long and has the serial number SKIU 292388 in ‘distinctive black writing’, although the charity urges reports of shipping containers without serial numbers too, presumably in case it’s already been removed. Anyone with information should contact Ulemu.com via email at evin.joyce@hotmail.com.
All images: Ulemu.com
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