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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In August I will be volunteering for four months in an orphanage <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><span>in Andhra Pradesh (Southern India), I will be </span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">running English activity lessons within 3 local schools during the school day and running after-school clubs as well as generally helping to care for the orphans as many will be disabled or HIV positive. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">I hope to make a real difference to these children's lives but need your help to raise the money needed to fund the project.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p><span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">I have already completed a week long sponsored silence from 2rd-9th February which I am sure everyone around me enjoyed greatly! I raised £287! So was a great success :)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I will be doing bucket collection and other events later in the year. Any money I raise will go on here so everyone can follow my process </span></p>
<p>I am trying to raising £1300 as that is how much VESL needs from me to run the project.</p>
<p><span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">All the money donated will go directed to </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><em style="cursor: pointer; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; font-style: normal;"><a style="cursor: pointer; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial;" href="http://www.vesl.org/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Volunteers for Educational Support and Learnin</span></a>g, which is charity I will be working with.</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"><em style="cursor: pointer; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; font-style: normal;">So please give generously!</span></em></span></p>
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