For a preview of the character naming resource, check out the video to the left of this page. Product dowload page lets you download as a spreadsheet or pdf, or both.
I'm Katey Nixon and this is my fundraising page for the Hospital by the River in Addis Abbaba - this amazing place gives a new life to women who are wounded by childbirth injuries in Ethiopia...
I'm doing this by selling a spreadsheet of babies names.You will benefit from this spreadsheet if...
You regularly write short stories and want to choose age appropriate names for your characters, because fashions have changed regularly over the last century and this.
I am trying to raise £400 for the Hospital and when you read the story below you will realise why this means so much to me, and how important your £2 donation is to one woman in Ethiopia. In exchange for the £2 donation I will send you a spreadsheet of popular names over this century and the last, to assist you in your creative writing endeavours. After you have donated, just giving will send you an automatic email in it will be the download link to download the spreadsheet.
Specifically the spreadsheet contains
The top 100 girls and boys names for ten year intervals from 1904 to 1994, and every year from 1994 to 2008.
Plus more Irish and Scottish names over the last century and this.
For your convenience the age as of 2010 is preprogrammed into the spreadsheet. But it has a facility whereby you can enter the date your book is set and it will recalculate.
The spreadsheet will also assist you in picking a baby's name and so please promote it to people with new borns on the way.
When making your donation: Please note that as you are getting a product in return for your donation, your donation will not be eligible for gift aid. If you are a UK tax payer you need to un-check the box that says "I'm not getting a ticket product or service in return for my donation" - this will avoid administrative difficulties at the other end.
Maybe you have heard about this hospital by the river. Obstetric fisutlae are common in Sub-Saharan Africa and other poor countries where good care in childbirth is not available. 5% of women in Ethiopia suffer from this horrible condition. If the labor becomes obstructed, the mother, if she is fortunate enough to survive, will deliver a stillborn baby, but the prolonged labour which could have lasted for days, often wears a hole between the bladder and the vagina. The outcome is lifelong misery due to a total and permanent incontinence and is deeply humiliating. This can only be cured by skilled surgery at hospitals like the Hospital by the River at Addis Abbaba.It is now possible to see young women in a wretched state transformed to beautiful young women with a new start in life through the love and care of this hospital.. It is one of the most moving experiences one could hope to see.
The cost of one patient's recovery, covering the operation and the patients's stay is just £400
Read the story I have written below called I Prefer Happy Endings:
Here is the story with the happy ending
Amu came to live with her cousin in Oromia when her parents died a long time ago. She was living with her cousin in a refugee camp when he chose a husband for her. She was married and got pregnant right away.
During the labor, her cousin and her husband and some neighborhood women were with her. She was in labour for eight days and on the eighth day, the baby came, but it was dead. She said, "I think the baby died because I had a sickness when I was pregnant. I caught this sickness from the wind."
After the labour her body was wounded. She was unable to control either bladder or bowel and was left in a terrible state. Her family rejected her and her husband left her and all the time she grieved for her dead baby and the happiness she had lost.
Keep reading the happy ending is coming!
Then her cousin heard that there was a place in Addis Ababa that could help her and so he took her there. They travelled by bus and it was a difficult journey because the bus driver was afraid to let her travel on his vehicle. But her cousin was pursuasive and she got to Addis Ababa after three days.
The hosipital treated her with kindness. They gave her a simple operation and after two weeks she returned home with her cousin to her family. The hospital gave her a new dress to wear on the journey and she felt like a princess. When she got home her family flocked around her and greeted her with open arms
The Hamlin Churchill Childbrith Injuries Fund, now Hamlin Fistula UK supports the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. At the Hamlin Fistula Hospitals, it costs US$450 to provide one woman with a fistula repair operation, high-quality postoperative care, a new dress, and bus fare home. But small amounts mount up so the more people that know about this page the more we can raise. They have also started an initiative to train midwives, since prevention is better than cure.
You can give the story a happy ending by donating £2 in exchange for the character naming resource, then telling all your friends about it and getting them to do the same.
Please don't gift aid your £2 fee because it is in exchange for a product!
So please pledge £2 now get your spreadsheet and get writing...
Many thanks for your support.
