We were so lucky to spend our holidays in Tanzania. We all fell in love with East Africa and Robin, especially, found himself deeply at home and at peace in this beautiful part of our world.

You will have seen that East Africa is facing its worst food crisis for decades. 20 million people are at risk of severe starvation and children will certainly bear the brunt of this. I shared this news with Robin and he was moved and confused. He found it very hard to understand why/how as a world we are standing by and letting this happen. He asked me 'why don't we all just send some of what we have along?' and I didn't have a good answer for him. So he decided rather than ask for presents for his birthday he would like to fundraise to try to help the East African children survive this horrible period of famine.

We are fundraising with ActionAid, a few details below. Thank you friends, we are all but brothers and sisters. <3

ActionAid is working with local partner organisations and women leaders to provide live-saving food, water, and livelihoods support in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somaliland.

- £10 could help ActionAid reach more people in urgent need of essentials such as water

- £45 could provide a family with a month's supply of food like vegetables, oil and sugar

- £100 could provide 5 girls in Somaliland with dignity kits, helping them to manage their periods with dignity