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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni;">On the 5th of November 2011 I will be embarking on a great challenge in aid of a truly great cause. On behalf of the charity “Hope For A Child” (www.hopeforachild.org.uk) I will be trekking through the Sahara Desert.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni;">My trek will see me cover approximately 106kms taking around 32 hours in total, which will be completed in six days.</span></p>
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<h3 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.2em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Hope for a Child is dedicated to seeing children rise from poverty in the poorest areas of the world.</h3>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 12px/18px Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">We empower a mother to earn. She develops a business, which leads to sustainable family income.<strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><br></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 12px/18px Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Experience has shown that when women bring in an income, they typically spend it on improving nutrition, health and education of their own children and other children in their extended family groups. This creates a multiple effect that can lift entire communities out of poverty.<strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><br></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font: normal normal normal 12px/18px Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Over the next 10 years Hope for a Child plans to enable basic financial services for 1 million of the poorest people in Africa. Your donations can really make a difference to improving the lives of others.<br><br></strong><strong style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">
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