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UK Charity seeks donations for Zimbabwe
Get Reading/Zim Guardian
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:24:00 +0000
 Dave Paddick and Brian Main of Twyford based Feed the Children |
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A UNITED KINGDOM-based charity has sent a shipment of food and supplies to Zimbabwe to help alleviate the cholera and food crisis in the country and needs cash to help send more.
Feed The Children could send container after container of goods – food, clothes, toiletries, blankets and antiseptic hand wipes – to Zimbabwe but it does not have the money for the shipping costs.
In fact it is desperately trying to raise the £7,000 needed for a container it has already sent which will arrive in 40 days’ time.
Chief executive of the charity Brian Main said: “We always have plenty of goods to send. But it is harder to find the money we need to ship them, especially in these cash-strapped times.
“We are happy to receive food, particularly dried foods like pasta, rice and pulses, but cash donations are very welcome too.”
Mr Main said although the charity, in Tavistock Industrial Estate, Ruscombe Lane, sent supplies to a number of countries in Africa, Zimbabwe was becoming its main priority.
It is supporting 600 children in 13 schools catering for youngsters with special needs who are particularly vulnerable during the economic crisis which has now led to outbreaks of cholera.
The first container to Zimbabwe contains 26 tonnes of much-needed supplies including the hand wipes.
He said: “These are particularly important because of the dangers of cholera.”
The charity is open from 9am to 5pm at its warehouse where goods can be taken at any time.
Donations can also be sent to Feed the Children, 2 Tavistock Industrial Estate, Ruscombe Lane, Twyford, RG10 9NJ or made over the phone on (0118) 932 0095 or online at www.feedthechildren.org.uk.
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Clarabella, Manchester • na
Subject: TAKE IT WHILE YOU CAN!
Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:57:24 • Uncle Ebow,
there are also clothes and blankets in those containers and we are due for one hellova winter - judging by our last winter - which i know was worse than the one before. just like here and now.
and in Zim we dont have central heating. so you obviously would prefer for our families to die of hypothermia?
I say take what you can while you can and look after your loved ones or else it is going to be redirected to Israel and those flooded out by hurricanes this next season in New Orleans again.
the goodies they pack are not from China (are you thinking of melamine) and do not go off. more likely from Woolworths own warehouses.
you and I would have to pay far more than £5 to send a container of blankets and clothese to Zim.
A £5 note that is sent to Feed the Children will make a bigger difference for all of us than spending another £5 on a pack of six beers or two bottles of wine next Friday that is flushed down the loo within hours.
uncleebow • uncleebow@googlemail.com
Subject: dont take nothing from briton
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:22:21 • please do not take any aid from briton,as you dont know what might be in it,after all they started this chemical war.do not take this for joke is real.
Donette Read Kruger • na.
Subject: HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:25:18 • If you go onto the website and google
www.feedthechildren.org.uk
and you will see on the front page the word DONATE on the left hand side. click onto this and you will see methods of payment for online donations which is perfectly safe.
click onto DONATE ON LINE and the instructions are therein, and fill in a red online donation form. click.
If we each gave even a mere £5 it would make all the difference to the food getting there. or not.
Nova, Edinburgh • na
Subject: CAN WE DO OUR BIT PLEASE?
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:03:53 • If each Zimbabwean here in the UK gave a £1 donation to Feed the Children they would soon have £3million in the coffers to send all the food they could. we have no excuse.
they are doing their bit - are you?
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