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Raising money for Tearfund

Emerging Influencers Fundraiser · 17 May 2021 to 24 June 2021 ·

Emerging Influencers is a six week leadership programme for 17-23 year olds. This community of young adults is raising money for Tearfund's life saving work in helping people to continue to lift themselves out of poverty.

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We as a team have seen the injustice and suffering around the world throughout the pandemic and due to climate change, therefore we have decided to raise money to help Tearfund in their work to tackle injustice worldwide.
One of those people affected by Tearfund's work is Ana who is one of thousands of refugees who fled the political and economic crisis in Venezuela and is now facing weeks with very little food after a national lockdown in Colombia.
I don't know what I'm going to do without being able to feed my daughter, says 24-year-old Ana who has a four-year-old daughter. If the government does not let us go out on the streets, I do not know what we are going to do to eat.
Across the city of Barranquilla there are more than 15,000 Venezuelan families like Anas. Most of them depend on being able to work in order to put food on the table, but now they can no longer leave their houses.
To try and stop the spread of coronavirus, the Colombian government has ordered that everyone should stay home for the next three weeks. However, relief agencies such as Tearfund and local churches have been given special permission to carry on supporting people.
Before the lockdown, our Tearfund local partners distributed food parcels to 600 Venezuelan refugee families in Barranquilla. But there are many more people still in need of food.
We are raising money for people like Ana by hiking as a group from Eglinton to Binevenagh then finishing with a swim at the top so please support us and Tearfund by donating!

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£1,000.00
+ £182.25 Gift Aid
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£1,000.00

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