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Independence From Poverty: July 2007
4th for Darfur - Independence from Poverty
With your help pupils and schools around the country will be joining forces on the 4th July and will be pledging monies for coming to school looking “ODD”.
Student and Staff raise funds to wear “something odd” i.e. odd socks, different coloured laces, hair, trousers, hats etc to school.
The pupils in turn will be made aware of the plight of the people of Darfur through our lesson and assembly plans.
It is easy for schools to take part, School Aid Network (Charity No: 1115537) is coordinating the event and all monies will go directly to the DEC Darfur & Chad appeal.
How do schools get involved?
1. Log onto www.schoolaidnetwork.co.uk
2. Teachers register their school on the web portal.
3. Pupils get involved with our Lesson and assembly plans
4. School raises and pledges money to Darfur & Chad through the web portal
5. School Receives a Certificate to reward the donation.
6. Watch the total grow on the web portal.
Why Darfur?
With violence in the region escalating, many villages are burnt out shells and two-thirds of the population in Darfur are dependent on aid. Money raised by this appeal will help people affected by the conflict, giving shelter, clean water and sanitation, emergency food and vital items such as water buckets, blankets and soap and enable medical teams to provide healthcare.
With 4.5 million people affected by the ongoing conflict, the looming rains are bringing the risk of deadly conditions like diarrhoea and malaria, especially for children, pregnant mothers and the elderly.
Aid agencies also need to bolster life-saving food and medicine stocks before the downpours hit any time within the next 4 weeks.
The gathering storms will also make the delivery of aid a much more difficult task, with vehicle tracks disappearing and swollen rivers becoming all but impossible to cross – meaning help needs to arrive as soon as possible.
Aid Agencies have been keeping people alive but access is already severely hampered by conflict and the rains will make it much harder for us to respond if we don’t act now.
For full information please www.dec.org.uk
