Clare McConkey

Rosie's Choir take on CAFOD's water challenge!

Fundraising for The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
£1,883
raised of £500 target
by 61 supporters
Join us on Saturday 20th February for our virtual Big Walk for Water. You'll be joining in spirit with Catholics across England and Wales who are all walking 5 miles in their area. Take the challenge on your own, with your family, or 'virtual parish'

Story

Rosie's Choir is a community choir based at St. Edmund's church, Beckenham. Several members of the choir are taking up the water challenge and will be walking, dancing and crocheting their way through Lent! Please sponsor us if you can.

Your support will mean that we can help people like Abdella: Abdella is 23 and he has big dreams. He dreams of starting a small business, starting a family, of having his own home. He dreams of not having to walk for ten hours a day to get water. Abdella lives in Afar, Ethiopia one of the hottest places on earth. He spends most of a day getting water for his family to drink. On the days when he's too tired to walk, his brother goes. He knows that if there was water near his home, his family wouldn't have to worry about getting enough to stay alive. And he could start on the dreams he has for the rest of his life. Your gift could buy:- water for a family - £33 - a bike for a water engineer to travel to a remote community's water pump - £66.

Go to www.cafod.org.uk/walk for more info.

About the campaign

Join us on Saturday 20th February for our virtual Big Walk for Water. You'll be joining in spirit with Catholics across England and Wales who are all walking 5 miles in their area. Take the challenge on your own, with your family, or 'virtual parish'

About the charity

CAFOD works with local partners and communities across the world - responding to emergencies, promoting long-term development and raising public awareness of the causes of poverty. We work with people of all faiths and none for a safe, sustainable and peaceful world.

Donation summary

Total raised
£1,883.00
+ £355.75 Gift Aid
Online donations
£1,783.00
Offline donations
£100.00

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