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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In March, I’m heading to Uganda along with 11 colleagues to help build a secondary school for around 450 children in Buikwe, a small town in southern Uganda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be an amazing opportunity to get my hands dirty and really make a difference.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There simply aren’t enough schools in Uganda<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"> and the children who do manage to get an education usually have to leave at 14 and start labouring to support their families</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Can you imagine if your opportunities to learn and progress were taken away from you at the age of 14. Where would you be now? What would you be doing with your life? What kind of a future would your children have without education? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In this country, we take education for granted, yet it is such an important source of opportunity and prosperity. I really hope that my very small contribution in Uganda will help even one child to realise their dreams.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please help me raise funds for this worthwhile cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a long-term project set up by Ogilvy Group (of which my employer, Coley Porter Bell is a member), and is in partnership with an established charity called International Need who have a strong and sustainable presence in Uganda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The project is called Many Ogilvy Hands because there is a belief that many hands make light work and the more people that get involved, the quicker we can start changing things for the better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information, please visit:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.manyogilvyhands.com/"><span style="color: #2a42c6;">http://www.manyogilvyhands.com/</span></a> or watch this movie: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLngtbOMpJM&playnext=1&list=PL566CB29275092996&index=86">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLngtbOMpJM&playnext=1&list=PL566CB29275092996&index=86</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thank you so much for your support.</span></span></p>
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