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on 5 March 2010
on 5 March 2010
Hello and thank you for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page today and taking an interest in what I am hoping to achieve. I really appreciate all your support!!! I have completed 10 tasks so far!
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I am raising money for VSO; the organisation I will be working with as a Youth for Development (YfD) volunteer in Sierra Leone this year!!! VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers, and works towards a world without poverty in which people can reach their potential. Instead of sending food or money, VSO sends others like myself to volunteer in Afriaca, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Pacific and Eastern Europe.
I have come up with an elaborate to raise money in the most fun way possible!! Any of you who know me well will be familiar with my 'Birthday countdown events' each year. This Year will be my 25th (Gasp) and because I won't be able to do them in England this year, I have come up with a plan to raise money in 25 different ways!!!
This is where you come in!!
As a visitor to my site, I want to make it more fun to donate to VSO, so you have two ways you can donate.
1. Simply make a donation!
2. Sponsor an event (LIST BELOW)you would like to sponsor me to do (raising awareness of VSO at the same time) and make a donation. (please mention which event you are sponsoring in your note. Thank you!)
Once I have completed the task, I will UPLOAD a video of myself doing the task. Please be generous. Some of the tasks are challenging!!
25 things for Charity!!!
1. Bodyflight Vertigo http://www.bodyflight.co.uk/vertigo/
2. Spend 2 hours in a lift
3. Handstand against the wall (completed June 2nd) see pictures
4. Sing along loudly in a music store and start a singalong
5. Start a fire with a coke can and chocolate
6. Vow of singing for 1 day (completed April 17th) see video
7. Make a kite and fly in Blackheath Park
8. Make pasta from scratch
9. Eat Marmite (completed May 3rd) see videos
10. Build a time capsule
11. Help out in a soup kitchen (completed May 4th)
12. Be bag packer for customers at Tesco
13. Sleep on a bed in a bedding store in PJs
14. Cycle up Maze Hill, Greenwich without stopping (this may be the hardest task of the lot!)
15. Bodyroll down a grass hill
16. 1 day to learn to say, 'hello, I am a VSO volunteer' in 25 different languages (completed June 5th)
17. Ride the circle line all the way round
18. Juggle 4 balls
19. Learn to bartend
20. Shake hands with 100 people I dont know (in a day)
21. Stay awake a whole night (completed May 18th)
22. Wax legs
23. Learn to throw a boomerang (completed May 4th)
24. Give blood
25. ?
Your donation will be used by VSO to reach the most disadvantaged communities around the world. For instance, your contribution could help to send a doctor to set up healthcare services and save lives of children and families with no access to medical care.
To find out more about the excellent work done by VSO, please click on the link: www.vso.org.uk/
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