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We did it!!! Thanks to everyone who sponsored us. It was very much appreciated. If you want to see the video go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozE6-T4ZrOI. If you haven't sponsored us yet you still can!
On Wednesday 17th September Katie and Laura from the Sutton Salvation Army jumped out of an aeroplane (thankfully attached to a parachute) to raise money for The Salvation Army Annual Appeal and their International Development Department. We were excited about the jump and a little scared however we wanted to raise as much money as we could for projects that we feel passionate about.
The Annual Appeal supports UK projects such as:
- Homeless centres and residential hostels.
- Emergency Vehicles. Recently the Boscastle floods and the July 7 bombings.
- Care homes for the elderly & Family centres
- Facilities for people with drug and alcohol addictions
- As well as projects run at over 750 local church and community centres including our very own Church!
The International Department supports project such as:
- Embrace. Working with vulnerable children by providing community support programmes.
- Anti-Trafficking. Such as the centre Laura visited in Malawi last year with ‘Journey’ scheme.
- Watershed. Providing the equipment, training and support to provide clean water to communities.
- Mustard Seeds. Enables the poorest people to help themselves out of the poverty trap by the means of a carefully designed system of loans in order to encourage income generation.