Hi Friends, Colleagues and Family,

I am running in the Hackney Half on Sunday May 18th 2025 to raise money to help Firefly continue their critical work to provide education, peace-building activities and mental health support to Syrian, Bosnian and Palestinian children.

I'm running for Firefly because I want to repair the damage caused by war, because wars leave scars that never disappear.

Children don’t start wars. But wars take away their parents, wreck their schools, destroy their homes.

Wars disrupt the day-to-day certainties that every child needs.

Firefly doesn’t leave when the fighting stops, Firefly stays, to help heal the scars and bring back stability and certainty.

Firefly teaches Syrian refugee children in places where there’s no other early years education.

Firefly offers children whose lives have been torn apart by war a chance to play, learn, paint and make music.

War goes on. Children still suffer, and Firefly has more to do now than ever before.

Firefly needs your help - so please help me help Firefly repair the damage caused by war

Find out more about Firefly's work here: https://fireflyinternational.org/about-us/

To find out more about the Appeal, make a pledge, or support in other ways please be in touch with amy@fireflyinternational.org.

Luke

xxx