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Cholera Outbreak in Gboloo Kofi, Ghana

Neil Kerfoot is raising money for Village By Village
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on 30 June 2011

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Right now, children are sitting in crumbling classrooms, or no classroom at all. Mothers are giving birth without a clinic nearby and drinking dirty water. Your donation builds real things. Classrooms. Wells. Health Clinics and every single one of them is still standing, and you can build more..

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<p><!--StartFragment--></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15.0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">It is with great sadness we have to report the village that has been Village by Village's base for 5 years is now in the grip of a cholera outbreak. A young mother died last week leaving three children and many more are getting very sick.</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: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">1/7/11 &nbsp; - &nbsp;MR LE-MAN JUST DIED<br />30/6/11 - JUST BEEN EMAILED ANOTHER TWO PEOPLE HAVE DIED......</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: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Once you live in the village it's easy to forget how vulnerable this community can be so we are asking all those connected to the charity or who have lived in Gboloo for help.</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: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Short term</strong> - <em>We want to educate more children about sanitation</em></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: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Longer term</strong> - <em>In partnership with the Ghana National Health Service we are looking at converting the Information Centre into a Community Health Clinic</em></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: 15.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Cholera is caused by poor sanitation and a lack of clean water. It is believed the disease was brought into the community from a remote outlying village without a well or toilets but the effects have been devastating. &nbsp;</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Donation summary

Total
£13,010.00
+ £357.50 Gift Aid
Online
£3,010.00
Offline
£10,000.00

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