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Children in Crossfire say thanks
08.01.10
CHARITY group Children
in Crossfire have thanked everyone in Inishowen who
supported their Christmas Advent Campaign 2009.
Children in Crossfire Advent calendars were
distributed throughout the North West including
Carndonagh, Moville and Muff to raise funds for
vital projects in Ethiopia and Tanzania.
Pictured below are two of the children the local charity
is helping in Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa.
The youngsters belong to a group of almost 70
families who currently live in a slum built on a
city graveyard having fled there during the
Ethiopian famines of the 1980s. |
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"Children in Crossfire
are helping to rehouse them in permanent
accommodation, to provide families with the
infrastructure that will enable adults to find jobs
and get training so they can provide for their
children, and to provide these children with better
chances for education and access to healthcare,"
said Mark McMahon of Children in Crossfire.
"Money raised from campaigns such as the Advent
campaign will go towards helping people like them."
Children in Crossfire was founded in Derry in 1996
by Richard Moore. The group works with partner
organisations and communities, both locally and
internationally, to help improve the lives of people
living in some of the world's poorest countries
including Ethiopia and Tanzania. It supports a wide
range of initiatives in specific communities with a
focus on agriculture and food security, emergency
relief, human rights, water and environmental
sanitation. The group are now urging their
supporters to continue returning monies raised
through the calendar campaign.
For more information on how to return the Advent
campaign funds, please contact Mark McMahon on 04871
269898 or email
mark.mcmahon@childrenincrossfire.org . |
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