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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #1f497d; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">April 2012 I will be embarking on a 100 km trek across the Sahara Desert to raise vital funds for Barnardo’s<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</em></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #1f497d; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #1f497d; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">Therefore this is your opportunity to to help a worthy cause and to support us as we toil from mirage to mirage in 50 degree heat. We must each raise £2550 and a KPMG expedition total in excess of £155,000.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #1f497d; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #1f497d; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">We will be trekking over dunes, through sandstorms, battling camel spiders all the while being exposed extreme weather of the Sahara Desert. So please help make this all worthwhile and donate today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #1f497d; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">For more information about the gruelling itinerary click <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.barnardos.org.uk/int-saharadeserttrek-itinerary.pdf"><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;">here</span></a></span>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #1f497d; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">What Barnardo's does:</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #1f497d; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">Barnardo's believes in children regardless of their circumstances, gender, race, disability or behaviour. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #1f497d; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">Whatever the issue, from drug misuse to disability; youth crime to mental health; sexual abuse to domestic violence; poverty to homelessness; Barnardo's believes we can bring out the best in every child. We run almost 400 local projects around the UK, working directly with over 100,000 children, young people and their famillies every year</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p>
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