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The Great Warwick Jump 2011 · 12 March 2011

READ International addresses the lack of educational resources in schools in Tanzania, creating libraries and supporting young people in skills and capacity development. To date we have sent 1.5 millions books to East Africa and created 94 secondary school libraries.

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<p>Well in a moment of insanity I signed up for <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>skydiving </strong></span>in "The Great Warwick Jump 2011" and when I finally came to my senses, I still have to do it because it is raising money for a really good cause, <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>READ International</strong></span>.</p> <p><strong>The Jump - 12th March 2011</strong></p> <p>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jump out of plane <strong><span style="color: #800000;">12,500</span></strong> feet in the air</p> <p>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Free-fall </span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">45-60 </span>seconds&nbsp;accelerating&nbsp;at <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>120 mph</strong></span></p> <p>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Parachute five minutes to the ground</p> <p><strong>READ International</strong></p> <p>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Set up by students wanting to <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>improve education</strong></span> in East Africa.</p> <p>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fund for <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>textbooks</strong></span> to be collected from secondary school and sent to <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Africa</strong></span>.</p> <p>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Raise awareness of global citizenship to UK school children.</p> <p>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Winner of <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Best New Charity</strong></span> in 2007 and <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Best International Aid and Development Charity</strong></span> in 2010.</p> <p><span style="white-space: pre;">- </span>Continually expanding and looking for new projects.</p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Please dig deep and donate now! Thank you! :)</strong></span></p>

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