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Skydiving for Charity - Jennifer's 23rd birthday!

Jennifer Ng is raising money for Project Harar
Celebrating the birthday of Jennifer Ng

on 28 September 2011

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Project Harar provides access to treatment, rehabilitation, and reintegration services in Ethiopia for children and young people with clefts and more complex facial disfigurements. We do this because these children and young people are at risk of stunting, malnutrition, and social exclusion.

Story

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>**For clarity, the money donated online goes straight to the charity - I don't touch or see it at all! </strong></span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></strong></span></span></p> </span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Dearest friends, thank you so much for all your birthday messages! ;)</span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>I will be&nbsp;SKYDIVING for charity in mid October to mark my 23rd birthday - to make it a special and meaningful one! </strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;">YES INDEED, I am&nbsp;REALLY SCARED&nbsp;even thinking about&nbsp;it! And birds in the air&nbsp;will be deafened by my screaming!&nbsp;;P&nbsp;But if it's for charity,&nbsp;I will be so much more willing to jump out of the plane, without hesitation! ;P</span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Therefore, please kindly support! No donation is too little! Words can't describe&nbsp;how much it will mean to me and the children...</span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>The charity..Check them out!</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://www.projectharar.org/">http://www.projectharar.org/</a></span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Many of us care about how we look to a certain extent. We have all at some point&nbsp;cared about the most minor details on our faces -&nbsp;spots, wrinkles, eyelashes..&nbsp;you name it&nbsp;- but <strong>these children cannot even smile, eat or speak like everyone else..</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;">More than one child in every 600 is born with or sustains a severe disability affecting their face.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><em>'Our faces, our expressions are the means by which we communicate to our fellow human beings. It is a great cruelty to have this taken away either by disease or accident.'</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Your donation will go to the medication for these children in Ethiopia and will be changing their lives! So let's do this! </em></span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Thank you SO much for your support! <strong>I will also be happy to take donations in person if that's more convenient for you! </strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://www.justgiving.com/donation/direct/charity/183422?amount=10&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;frequency=single"><strong>&pound;10</strong></a> will buy prescription medicine, x-rays and scans for one patient</span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://www.justgiving.com/donation/direct/charity/183422?amount=50&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;frequency=single"><strong>&pound;50</strong> </a>secures microsurgery and overnight intensive care hospital treatment</span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><a href="http://www.justgiving.com/donation/direct/charity/183422?amount=250&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;frequency=single"><strong>&pound;250</strong></a></strong> secures treatment for a child, including complex and follow-up care</span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://www.justgiving.com/donation/direct/charity/183422?amount=1000&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;frequency=single"><strong>&pound;1,000</strong></a> keeps our fieldworkers on the road for a fortnight - bringing life-changing treatment to children in the poorest communities.</span></p>

Donation summary

Total
£1,432.17
+ £64.10 Gift Aid
Online
£817.17
Offline
£615.00

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