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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On the 19th of February 2011, Toks and Sarah will take it off...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"... our hair that is! From afros to bald heads." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Donate on <strong>this</strong> page if you want us to loose the afros.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Or donate here: justgiving.com/keepiton if you want us to keep the afros... </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(disclaimer: <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 19px;">we will shave it either way unless we reach our </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; border-collapse: collapse; color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 19px;">keep-it-on</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1c1c1c; line-height: 19px;"> "diamond" target of £5000</span>)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We would like to tell you a little about the worthwhile cause that has inspired us to create this crazy spectacle:</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Right now, an estimated 33.3 million people are living with HIV, including millions who have developed AIDS. 370 000 children around the world are born with HIV every year.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It affects people of all ages, rich and poor alike, all races, genders and sexualities – all over the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">However, by stepping up efforts to provide worldwide prevention, treatment and protection, we can make an AIDS-free generation possible by 2015 </span><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(</span><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Source: UN Report, <em>Children and AIDS: Fifth Stocktaking Report</em>, 2010).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We both feel very strongly that we can break down the barriers to making this a reality – your contribution means the world to us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The money we raise with your help will go to AVERT, an international charity, based in the UK, working to avert <a href="http://www.avert.org/hiv.htm"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">HIV</span></a> and <a href="http://www.avert.org/aids.htm"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">AIDS</span></a> worldwide, through education, treatment and care.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So please dig deep and donate now!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dedicated to those currently living with HIV/AIDS and in memory of Christopher Adjah who died of AIDS on 10</span></em><em><sup><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">th</span></sup></em><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> July 2005.</span></em></p>
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