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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.