<div id="story" class="frp-message-body" style="height: auto;"> <p><strong>On May 21 2011, I will be taking part in the second Children of Fire&nbsp; 22 mile Monopoly charity&nbsp;walk around London to raise money for Africa's first burns charity. Last year it was the Monopoly&nbsp;MOONwalk, this year&nbsp;is the NOONwalk. The idea is to visit every location on the classic London Monopoly board.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">Back in 2002&nbsp;my wife&nbsp;read a newspaper&nbsp;article about a little South African girl called Dorah Mokoena who had lost her face and hands in a squatter camp fire when she was a baby. An incredible woman called Bronwen Jones had found her, unvisited and alone, in hospital and had fostered her.&nbsp;Dorah and Bronwen were travelling to&nbsp;London for&nbsp;the latest in a long number of operations, and needed somewhere to stay. We offered them a room and that was the start of our friendship, and involvement with Bronwen's fledgling charity, Children of Fire. </span></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">9&nbsp;years on, Children of Fire does incredible work on a very small budget, looking after hundreds of children who are burned in Africa every year. Children of Fire provides&nbsp;world-leading surgery, schooling and financial support to enable them to make their own way in the world. We also arrange challenging and character-building events such as a teenage expedition to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, and (just for fun) the annual Jo'burg chocolate festival.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000080;">But, Children of Fire also helps tackle the causes of fire, we provide education, run Umashesha - a rapid response unit for victims of fires, and we lobby governments to make&nbsp;townships safer places for people to live.</span></p> <p>You can track our progress on the day via Twitter. Please follow the team @ChildrenOfFire,</p> <p>take a moment to look at our website <a href="http://www.childrenoffire.org"><span style="color: #2a42c6;">www.childrenoffire.org</span></a>&nbsp;</p> <p>or watch Children of Fire,The Movie <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfk-Ki9MqpU"><span style="color: #2a42c6;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfk-Ki9MqpU</span></a></p> </div> <p>Many thanks,</p> <p>Norton York</p>