Showing posts with label Charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charity. Show all posts
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Newsflash: Our Shelterbox fundraising is going to be doubled
A quick call for any more sponsors to please direct their money towards our Shelterbox fundraising (see right margin for links). The boss at Chris's company has kindly offered to match whatever we raise (within reason)...and as things stand the Shelterbox pot is lagging a little behind. So, sponsors can make their money go further. A £25 donation will get the gift aid making it up to above £30...and will be matched too - so £25 becomes £55. Hmm, need to find a similar scheme for my wages!
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Shelterbox
Whilst we chose to support Practical Action because of the excellent, proactive work it does in supporting Peruvian communities, we also felt compelled to support another charity providing a very different kind of service.
Shelterbox's cause may resonate more with some of our sponsors, since they provide a flexible and immediate disaster relief capability. The output of the charity is beautifully simple and tangible - they provide a box.
In this box is a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, water storage and purification equipment, cooking utensils, a stove, a basic tool kit, a children’s activity pack and other vital items needed by families displaced for whatever reason.
The charity is reasonably new, but already 107,000 boxes have been delivered to people who need them, be it in Sudan, Pakistan or Japan.
What we've arrived at is two great charities, one offering disaster relief to families who need any help they can get, and the other offering a brighter future for those living everyday in conditions that we are considering to be adverse enough to warrant sponsorship to travel through!
Remember all proceeds go directly to the charities. (Chris and I are funding the trip ourselves)
To sponsor our efforts and donate your money to Shelterbox, please visit this page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/QueGuevaraShelterbox
Shelterbox's cause may resonate more with some of our sponsors, since they provide a flexible and immediate disaster relief capability. The output of the charity is beautifully simple and tangible - they provide a box.
In this box is a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, water storage and purification equipment, cooking utensils, a stove, a basic tool kit, a children’s activity pack and other vital items needed by families displaced for whatever reason.
The charity is reasonably new, but already 107,000 boxes have been delivered to people who need them, be it in Sudan, Pakistan or Japan.
What we've arrived at is two great charities, one offering disaster relief to families who need any help they can get, and the other offering a brighter future for those living everyday in conditions that we are considering to be adverse enough to warrant sponsorship to travel through!
Remember all proceeds go directly to the charities. (Chris and I are funding the trip ourselves)
To sponsor our efforts and donate your money to Shelterbox, please visit this page: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/QueGuevaraShelterbox
Practical Action
One of the great aspects of doing charity roadtrips is the opportunity it presents to understand some of the work that the charities do.
The first of our chosen charities is Practical Action, and they've been chosen specifically because they are delivering projects in Peru, the country we are travelling through. Chances are that we will be driving through communities that either are (or one day will be) impacted by the very projects our fundraising is helping to pay for. I don't pretend to understand a great deal about the challenges faced in Peru, though clearly poverty, climate and geographical isolation will be three of the main ones. The challenges that will make our road trip so treacherous, are issues that impact communities daily, throughout their lives. Transportation, communication and the Andean climate are but three key issues - and Practical Action has projects in place to try to improve knowledge and capability in each of these areas.
Why not read a little more about:
community telecentres
dissemination of agricultural tips via podcasts
coping with the big Andean freeze and
harnessing windpower
To sponsor ¿Que? Guevara with your proceeds going to Practical Action - follow this link http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/QueGuevara
The first of our chosen charities is Practical Action, and they've been chosen specifically because they are delivering projects in Peru, the country we are travelling through. Chances are that we will be driving through communities that either are (or one day will be) impacted by the very projects our fundraising is helping to pay for. I don't pretend to understand a great deal about the challenges faced in Peru, though clearly poverty, climate and geographical isolation will be three of the main ones. The challenges that will make our road trip so treacherous, are issues that impact communities daily, throughout their lives. Transportation, communication and the Andean climate are but three key issues - and Practical Action has projects in place to try to improve knowledge and capability in each of these areas.
Why not read a little more about:
community telecentres
dissemination of agricultural tips via podcasts
coping with the big Andean freeze and
harnessing windpower
To sponsor ¿Que? Guevara with your proceeds going to Practical Action - follow this link http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/QueGuevara
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