My name is Dave Wade, Pastor of Community Church Blackburn (www.ccblackburn.org).  As a church we want to raise money to support the children in Syria as they face another winter in the refuge camps. 

I am aiming to raise enough money to buy a warm coat for 20 children in Syria.

Last winter, five-year-old Shahed didn't have a coat. She had fled with her family from Syria to a refugee camp in Jordan with very little. When winter came, Shahed stayed inside her family's unheated caravan wrapped in a blanket. It was warmer to stay in there than it was to be outdoors, where, without a coat, it was too cold to play.

Being given a coat by World Vision changed everything for Shahed. This winter she no longer fears being cold. She can walk to school and play outdoors without shivering or feeling miserable.

"My jacket is very warm and very nice," Shahed says. "Now I can play outside all the time! I play hide and seek, I hide behind the caravan, over there, or sometimes inside, or behind my aunt's caravan." 

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