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<p>Hallo Friends - read on - we have some great news and you all are part of it!</p>
<p>The 40 young people with learning disabilities in L'Arche Uganda can now depend on their minibus for transport. NOW IT WILL BE A CHRISTMAS PRESENT.</p>
<p>We've had a fantastic response FROM YOU ALL. Michael Bentham ran the Great South Run for the THIRD time at the end of October. A friend's Mum who has done 2 years baby-sitting for young George decided she'd make a gift to ODF as a thank you. Mum said she has worked it out that she's worth 50p an hour excluding food & petrol. What a great Gran! Several young people had a party and asked for an 'extra' £7 per party-goer for two charities and we were one of them - we got a fantastic £500 ++. And from two couples we've benfited from donations rather than wedding presents and christening presents. </p>
<p>We will now be able to continue collecting our young members from their homes & deliver them back at the end of the day and the older members can now continue their work projects - candle & jewellery making, gardening, sewing etc. This bus is a life-line and coming to school or work enables their families (usually just the mothers) to go out to work too. </p>
<p>We are home and dry and completely bowled over by the generosity of so many marvelous donors (over 150 of you & I can't possibly write to you all so please accept this as a big thank you).</p>
<p>Tessa</p>
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