Saturday 29 December 2007

What Can Your Sponsorship Do?

The serious side to Trailwalker is that we are raising money for two great causes – Oxfam and the Gurkha Welfare Trust. So what can your sponsorship do? This comes from a leaflet sent to us by Oxfam…
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Oxfam will use the money we raise from Trailwalker in its work to end poverty all over the world. See what your sponsorship can do:

Long-term development work:

£5 could pay for two school textbooks.

£50 could buy a donkey. A donkey can carry large loads over long distances, which really eases the burden of fetching and carrying supplies to and from market. Plus there’s the bonus of free fertiliser!

£100 could buy essential medicines for a whole community for six months.

£1,600 can buy a whole mango plantation – giving a farmer secure income for years.

Help in emergencies:

£23 could pay for 10 Oxfam buckets. Specially designed to keep water safe and clean, these buckets play a vital role in emergencies all over the world.

£36 could provide safe water for 50 people.

£1,440 can provide safe drinking water for 2,000 people.

And this is what the Gurkha Welfare Trust can do with the funds raised:

£14 can buy a blackboard for a school classroom.

£460 can repair the roof of a school.

£1,500 could build a whole toilet block for an eight-classroom school.

Please help us to reach our fundraising target!
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Our fundraising target is £1,500, but if we can make more than this then that’s even better, the money really is put to life-changing use.

Check out the sidebar to see how you can sponsor us! :-)

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