Lewis Adams is fundraising for Reaching The Unreached

Great North Run 2009 - RTU

Bupa Great North Run 2009

on 20/09/2009

Beneficiaries of RTU’s care and support

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Raising money for

Reaching The Unreached

Charity Registration No. 1091295

RTU serves the poorest families and communities in a remote area of southern India. Alongside healthcare and community development work, RTU cares for over 1000 children – abandoned or orphaned, often through AIDS. They live with foster mothers in four specially built “Children’s Villages” and are educated and supported to adulthood.

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Lewis Adams

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Raised: 58%

Target: £1,000.00
Raised so far: £575.00

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My story

I want your cash....again!

First a note to say thanks to all who sponsored me for last year’s Great North Run. The MS Society benefited to the tune of £700+.

This year I've decided to raise money for a charity called RTU which really helps some of the most disadvantaged children on this planet. There is an anecdote and info of what they do below. (Please take time to read it)

Humbly and gratefully, yours, Lewis (doffed cap etc)

RTU

“Just now an ancient granny comes with her 11 year old grand-daughter Jeyanti who looks no older than 8. They are from the lowest of the low castes in a village we know well, we have built many low-cost houses there and put in handpumps for the only water supply. The little girl’s father died 10 years ago with TB and the mother abandoned the child to marry another man. Not much chance of remarriage if there is a girl included, so she was left with the granny. Granny was struggling for survival anyway – too old to work, no other family members to support her, her house badly in need of repair – and so it goes on when you are at the bottom of the pile. We have admitted Jeyanti to one of our Children’s Villages. No child in real need is ever turned away.”

Reaching the Unreached works in a remote area of rural Tamil Nadu - India’s southernmost state. It cares for about 1000 children: most are orphaned, nowadays increasingly often by AIDS. The youngest live with foster mothers in RTU’s own villages; the oldest are supported through college. With schools, clinics, self-help groups, and cash allowances paid to the poorest families and the abandoned elderly, RTU helps people first to survive, and then to make more of their lives.

Childcare, Education, Health, Housing, Water, Welfare – serving the rural poor in South India.

	Donation by John Paul Cowan 21/10/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Donation by Anonymous 11/10/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Mr Mazhar 11/10/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	bien hecho Lewis!!! Donation by Armando Fernandez 20/09/09	£45.00
	Donation by Carol and James 19/09/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Nana 19/09/09	£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid
	Donation by Chris Wilson 19/09/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Glad to support RTU again, we had it as one of our Missions of the Month at All Saints Gosforth Donation by Genny Tunbridge 12/09/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Wear out some pavement.. xx Donation by Zoe & Ollie 10/09/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	sorry its a bit late - best of luck on the day! Donation by Gavin Cheadle 08/09/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good Luck Lew@rse x Donation by Claire Nixon 07/09/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Diane and David 23/08/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Joan Howard 23/08/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by John Cowan 21/08/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Hope it goes well - look out for Kerry! Donation by Jan Simmonds 20/08/09	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
	Good luck Lew, hope you do it in under 2 hours xx Donation by Leigh Weston 19/08/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Good luck Lewis! Donation by Becca Wedemeyer 18/08/09	£30.00
	Good effort Lewis. Hope it goes well Donation by Neil Taylor 18/08/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Good luck, Lewis, keep on running. Donation by Patrick Smith 17/08/09	£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid
	Donation by Andrew Setchell 17/08/09	£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid
	Donation by Anonymous 09/08/09	£20.00
	Great cause and so deserving of support. Donation by Chris Adams 08/08/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	Good luck with the run and the fundraising fella - great cause Donation by Simon Hunter 15/07/09	£50.00 + £14.10 Gift Aid
	A wonderful cause to which I hope everyone gives generously. All the best Lewis with the event. Donation by Bob & Dib Gilbertson 13/07/09	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid
	Donation by Danny Suen 13/07/09	£10.00
	Well done Lewis - great initiative. I look forward to hearing in next RTU newsletter of your success and of your dad's entry next year ! Donation by Mark Patchett 12/07/09	£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

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* Total raised online:	£575.00
Offline donations:	£0.00
Gift Aid plus supplement:	£132.56

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