Lizzie Whewell
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Fundraising for Tumaini - Homes of Hope
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Hello and thank you...
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you’re here, it means you’ve either mis-typed ebay (!) or you’re probably parting with some of your hard earned cash to support my chosen charity; Tumaini Home of Hope in Africa (http://www.tumainichildrenshome.com).
What is Tumaini?
Every 3 seconds, a child in dies of AIDs. 1 2 3… You either do something or do nothing and I, along with people like Joan of the Tumaini charity, have decided to do something. A little about the charity... In 2006, Joan was doing voluntary work at a hospital clinic in . During this time, she was asked to help a small girl who was ill. After giving her hospital treatment she was taken into the care of her uncle. Some months passed and Joan was anxious to find out how the little girl was keeping. She learned to her distress that, because the child had AIDS her uncle had taken her out into the bush and abandoned her, leaving her on her own to die. The seed to help these children was sown, and Joan has spent her retirement tirelessly working to establishing, building, maintaining and improving the orphanage she has founded. The objectives of this charity are: 1. To provide a safe and secure home for HIV/AIDS affected or infected children. 2. To sustain and care for HIV/AIDS affected or infected children and AIDS orphans. 3. To prolong the lives of such children by providing medical care and nutritious diets. 4. To counsel such children in order to help them out of the stigma associated with the disease and create awareness among society to accept them. 5. To promote education in their community about the plight of these children. 6. To provide education and help these children grow into responsible adulthood for those who turn negative and those orphaned. 7. To involve local people in the operation of the charity. 8. To allow and promote access to the charities activities and the opportunity of involvement in it regardless of sex, age, race, religious belief, disability or sexual orientation. 9. To do all such other lawful things as are necessary for the achievement of the Objectives. Do something? Do nothing? Tumaini is a small, small, small charity and relies entirely on donations to keep it going. They need a junior haemoglobiliser which basically checks the children’s immune system to make sure the drugs the children are taking are working. They and their local community need £8000 to do this and I’ve agreed to help them. I’ve agreed to do something and hope that you’ll agree too…
Every 3 seconds, a child in dies of AIDs. 1 2 3… You either do something or do nothing and I, along with people like Joan of the Tumaini charity, have decided to do something. A little about the charity... In 2006, Joan was doing voluntary work at a hospital clinic in . During this time, she was asked to help a small girl who was ill. After giving her hospital treatment she was taken into the care of her uncle. Some months passed and Joan was anxious to find out how the little girl was keeping. She learned to her distress that, because the child had AIDS her uncle had taken her out into the bush and abandoned her, leaving her on her own to die. The seed to help these children was sown, and Joan has spent her retirement tirelessly working to establishing, building, maintaining and improving the orphanage she has founded. The objectives of this charity are: 1. To provide a safe and secure home for HIV/AIDS affected or infected children. 2. To sustain and care for HIV/AIDS affected or infected children and AIDS orphans. 3. To prolong the lives of such children by providing medical care and nutritious diets. 4. To counsel such children in order to help them out of the stigma associated with the disease and create awareness among society to accept them. 5. To promote education in their community about the plight of these children. 6. To provide education and help these children grow into responsible adulthood for those who turn negative and those orphaned. 7. To involve local people in the operation of the charity. 8. To allow and promote access to the charities activities and the opportunity of involvement in it regardless of sex, age, race, religious belief, disability or sexual orientation. 9. To do all such other lawful things as are necessary for the achievement of the Objectives. Do something? Do nothing? Tumaini is a small, small, small charity and relies entirely on donations to keep it going. They need a junior haemoglobiliser which basically checks the children’s immune system to make sure the drugs the children are taking are working. They and their local community need £8000 to do this and I’ve agreed to help them. I’ve agreed to do something and hope that you’ll agree too…
I’m thinking BIG, and if we get one, it’d be an amazing reflection of people’s generosity. If I manage to get two, I’ll be over the moon! Whatever you want to give; whatever you can give; if you want to give, please do.
So a little challenge awaits as I aim to tackle a fair few miles racing on the Clipper Sailing Race 09/10 from San Fransisco-Panama Canal-Jamaica-New York-Nova Scotia-dodging a few icebergs across the Atlantic (!) - Ireland- Northern Europe and back to (http://www.clipperroundtheworld.com/index.php/home). It's difficult to be precise, but it's an estimated 10,000 miles racing against 10 identical boats for months on end. Daily routines will be 4 hours on board tackling the wind and waves and 4 hours 'off' in a desperate attempt to sleep (reminder to self to take ear plugs!). According to the Crew Coordinator, approximately 12,000 international people applied to take part with only 400 crew places available and I’m happy to say that I got one of them! Every penny will go towards buying the junior haemoglobilisers. Not ONE penny raised will go towards administration costs, post-it notes or the buckets of chocolate I’ll need!As for my part in the race, I know I’ll get there; know it’ll be hard sometimes but it will also be exciting and rewarding and more so if I manage to hit that target!
So thank you again…
Lizzie
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