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World Vision UK is asking for your help in demanding U.N leaders ‘Finish the Job’. As part of their global ‘Child Health Now’ campaign, the World Vision childrens charity are calling on world leaders to stand by their stance to halve global poverty by 2015 and fulfil their promises towards achieving their Millennium Development Goals. These eight plans of action were set in place a decade ago, yet many of these goals are way off track, and unless drastic action is taken, will not be achieved.

With the U.N. review in September just around the corner, now is the time for Deputy PM Nick Clegg to stand up and make a stand for the voices of the people of Britain. Now is the time to takes decisive action and ‘Finish the Job’, helping save the lives of up to 6 million children each year.

> > Click here to email your local MP and ‘Finish the Job’

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty. You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK

UNICEF UK‘s latest child initiative, Put it Right, is being launched alongside this hard hitting video. Accompanied by the haunting Radiohead track ‘Videotape’, taken from 2007 album ‘In Rainbows’, this emotional sequence of footage shows some of the hardships that children all over the world are facing on a day to day basis.

UNICEF is working in more than 190 countries across the globe to help protect the rights of children who are living on the streets and begging for survival. Children deserve to have the same rights across the globe, and thanks to UNICEF’s tireless work offering them long term support and life saving help, a change can be made…

but they need your support to make a lasting difference.

Help Support UNICEF UK with a Charity Gift

You can help raise funds with UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Presents start at just £8, and for a little as £16 you could buy a virtual charity gift like five footballs for children in refugee camps. There are so many to choose from, and these thoughtful gifts would make an ideal present for a loved one…

it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

> > click here to purchase a UNICEF UK Inspired Gift

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Fame Academy and Pop Idol vocal coach to the stars Carrie Grant recently visiting a new community development project in India with World Vision UK. Ms. Grant will be visiting the Vaishali project in the North Eastern state of Bihar, where Carrie will see how the childrens charity are working to help improve the health of the locals community who live in this impoverished area.

Whilst in India, Carrie will be talking to a local women’s self help group, who have created the opportunity to start small businesses in the area to provide for their children. Carrie will also be watching a local street theatre group who highlight the important health message that need to be conveyed to the locals. Many children in the area are facing severe health problems, with malnutrition causing at least one third of child deaths in the area. Ms. Grant will also be meeting with the staff and patients at the only community health centre in the area, which has to serve an unbelievable 78,000 people!

Carrie said -

I’m very excited to be visiting Vaishali. It’s a fairly new project for World Vision, so it’ll be interesting to see how things are taking off. I know World Vision grounds its work in grassroots cooperation and I’m a great believer in community – it’ll be good to meet the people and learn how the local experts are moving forward day to day.

Carrie, who is best known for her work on talent shows such as Fame Academy and Pop Idol, will be presenting a new World Vision event called ‘Girls Night Out’. These events, which start in the Autumn, are a new initiative to entertain whilst sharing stories about World Vision’s partnerships with women who live in developing countries.

The first Girls Night Out will take place at St Mary’s Church in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, on Friday 10th September 2010, with further dates around the country to follow.

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty. You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK

UNICEF UK think it’s time to tell Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to prioritise the world’s poorest children at the latest U.N. meeting in September 2010. With only 5 years to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were set by the U.N. 10 years ago, if real action is not taken soon it could have a catastrophic effect on billions of people across the globe.

UNICEF UK has devised an interesting and innovative animation, where you can hear David Cameron and Nick Clegg talking about children’s rights ahead of the meeting. Simply click on the link below to ‘Spin the Unfair Wheel’

> > Click here to Spin the Unfair Wheel

With millions of children across the globe still not having access to safe water and proper sanitation now is the time for the U.N to act. With up to 1.5  million children dying from diarrhoea related diseases every year, our British representatives must stand up for what they believe in and make sure the eight Millennium Development Goals are properly implemented before it’s too late.

Click on the link below to sign UNICEF petition to ask the UK government to ensure a fairer future for the world’s children.

> > Click here to sign the petition

Help Support UNICEF UK with a Charity Gift

You can help raise funds with UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Presents start at just £8, and for a little as £16 you could buy a virtual charity gift like five footballs for children in refugee camps. There are so many to choose from, and these thoughtful gifts would make an ideal present for a loved one…

it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

> > click here to purchase a UNICEF UK Inspired Gift

Other top charity gifts

UNICEF UK are looking for support as they work tirelessly to provide food and shelter to the people of Kyrgyzstan, where 300,000 people have been forced to flee their homes due to violence. Refugees are quickly running out of supplies, with another 90,000 women and children now separated from their families in Uzbekistan. Some 40,000 people are currently living without shelter, and UNICEF are responding as quickly as possible to avert any further catastrophe.

UNICEF has dispatched 40 tonnes of emergency water, sanitation and hygiene supplies from its global supply, with a further shipment of the same size due to arrive shortly. Though the level violence has decreased in the last month, tensions still run high in the area with uncertainty hanging in the air. The U.N. has responded to the crisis in Kyrgyzstan and has provided £48 million, of which £6.6 million has come from the UNICEF children’s charity. This money will be used to try and help those who are now without not only their homes, but for many, also their families.

You can support UNICEF’s emergency relief operations around the world and help them respond quickly to children in distress by donating to their Children’s Emergency Fund.

> > Click here to donate to the Children’s Emergency Fund

Help Support UNICEF UK with a Charity Gift

You can help raise funds with UNICEF Inspired Gifts. Presents start at just £8, and for a little as £16 you could buy a virtual charity gift like five footballs for children in refugee camps. There are so many to choose from, and these thoughtful gifts would make an ideal present for a loved one…

it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

> > click here to purchase a UNICEF UK Inspired Gift

Other top charity gifts

A Plan UK report has shown that children who are being employed as tobacco pickers in Malawi are being exposed to the nicotine equivalent of smoking 50 cigarettes a day. The child labourers, some as young as 5 years old, are absorbing up to 54 milligrams of nicotine a day whilst tying tobacco during their long hours of work. The workforce, who ply their trade for up to 12 hours a day at less than 1p an hour, have no protective clothing to withstand the nicotine that is seeping into their skin.

Malawi supply the ‘filler tobacco’ to multinational companies that use the low grade yet high in nicotine content tobacco to bulk out their cigarettes that are sold around the world. Almost 78,000 under age children work in the tobacco industry in Malawi, a staggering amount when you consider the hazardous conditions they are working in and toxins they are being exposed to. Effects from the over exposure to the tobacco cause a shortness of breath, headaches, weakness and severe coughing.

Plan Malawi’s Child Rights Advisor, Mcdonald Mumba, said -

This research shows that tobacco estates are exploiting and abusing children who have a right to a safe working environment. Plan is calling for better enforcement of child labour laws and harsher punishment for employers who break them. These children are risking their health for 11p a day and multinational tobacco companies, who profit vastly from child labour, need to take a more active responsibility for their involvement.

The children’s charity is now calling upon the local government of Malawi to enforce their child labour protection laws to there fullest to help stop this terrible trade. Also that plantations provide safer working conditions and age restrictions, along with the correct protective clothing for those needed to work in the tobacco fields. Most importantly, Plan are demanding that multinational tobacco companies look into the methods of production used to create their cigarette ‘filler’, and make sure that their own strict corporate guidelines are followed to the letter.

Help Plan by Sponsoring a Child

You can help raise funds for Plan’s ongoing work by sponsoring a child. Currently working in some of the world’s poorest countries, Plan make long term improvements to the lives of children through working in local communities. With each sponsorship comes -

• Welcome pack including information and pictures about your child
• Receive at least one letter, note or drawing from your child
• 2 Editions of World Family Magazine
• The knowledge that you are helping a child to live their life

> > Click here to sponsor a child with Plan

The World Vision charity sent their own light hearted message at Heathrow Airport to the world leaders who will be travelling to the G8 Summit in Canada. Supporters dressed as Canadian Mounties with world leaders faces printed onto masks in a bid to highlight the desperate need to help tackle the global child health crisis.

The G8 promised in their ‘Millennium Development Goals’ a decade ago to halve global poverty by 2015, yet despite progress, nearly 9 million children under the age of 5 die every year. Many of these deaths are caused by easily preventable diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea. The G8 needs to act now to fulfil their promises, and with only 5 years remaining, the clock is ticking.

The World Vision children’s charity will be pushing their message of change at the G8 meeting in Muskoka, Canada. Action, not words, needs to be taken today to give the children of tomorrow the opportunity at a better life. World leaders need to fulfil their promises of 2000 that global poverty would be halved. At the current rate of change, this promise looks a long way off and needs to addressed before it’s too late.

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty. You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK

Bristol comedian Mark Watson from Mock the Week has just returned from Senegal in West Africa where he took the time to visit the local children and teach them a few of his Bristolian phrases! The comic helped launch the Action Aid UK ‘Make Your Mark’ campaign, which ban last month last month exclusively in the West Country. This is to help raise awareness of the 72 million children who cannot afford to go to school through poverty, and to try and find 1,000 people in the West Country to sponsor 1,000 children in Africa.

Whilst in Senegal, Mark learnt the local drumming and dancing, and also played football in a local league which is funded by Action Aid to help the football mad locals to take part in their favourite sport. Alongside all the fun stuff, Mark also joined in the daily chores of carrying firewood, fetching water and cooking. Mark has always been a regular donor to the Action Aid childrens charity, but after recently becoming a father, said that seeing the poverty hit him a lot harder as a new dad.

Mark said -

It’s been really exciting and inspiring to see the effect of ActionAid’s child sponsorship in Djilor. Now I’m back I am going to sponsor a child straight away and I’m hoping to get a lot of people in the West Country to do the same. This is a place that’s not all that unlike Bristol in some ways. The close sense of community and the importance of the kids are all the same really. This is a massive opportunity for people in the West Country to get involved in changing the lives of communities in a place that’s not all that far from home and where the people really, really do appreciate and need it.

Help ActionAid with a Charity Gift

You can also help raise funds with the ActionAid Gifts in Action scheme, giving you the chance to buy an unusual and thoughtful charity gift whilst also helping poor communities.

It’s the gift that keeps on giving…

> > Click here to order a Gift in Action

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AVIVA is offering a weekly prize of £1000 to a local hero through their ‘Tell Us Your Story‘ competition. This fantastic initiative allows you to submit interesting tales about people who have made a positive impact in your community in the past 12 months. For each story that is submitted, AVIVA will also donate £1 to the Street to School children’s charity programme, whose aim is to give every child who is living on the street the right to fulfil their potential.

Along with the weekly prize, a celebrity judging panel will select an overall winner, who will receive a prize worth £10,000! If you know of somebody who deserves a bit of credit for the work they do for you, or in the community, then why not submit their story to this excellent competition? Not only will you be helping give credit to a local hero who asks for none, but you will also be helping raise funds for the Street to School programme. You never know, if your story is selected, you may be able to surprise somebody and let them know that their work hasn’t gone unnoticed.

> > Click here to ‘Tell Us Your Story’

The World Vision charity is fully behind the ’1GOAL: Education for All’ campaign, which is calling on all the world leaders to help provide education to all 72 million children worldwide by 2015, no matter what country they live in. 1GOAL is using the power of football to ensure that every child has the right to receive an education especially now with 2010 FIFA World Cup being held in Africa.

World leaders made an eight point Millennium Development Goal pledge in 2000 to help all children across the globe, which included the end of poverty through education by 2015. Thanks to the abolition of school fees in many countries, an extra 33 million children are now going to school. Yet the goal to ensure that all children complete primary schooling by this date is looking a long way off without increased action.

The World Vision childrens charity is supporting the campaign with the Global Campaign for Education. This group is features a coalition of teachers’ unions and development agencies around the world who have united to try and achieve their goal for universal education for all. Footballers, such as Alan Shearer, along with fans and FIFA are fully behind the  1GOAL campaign, alongside many other education groups, charities and campaigners.

World Vision’s Senior Child Rights Policy Advisor, Philippa Lei, said -

Education is key to transforming lives. Not only does it open up economic opportunity and contribute to poverty reduction, it literally does save lives. Children of mothers who receive an education are twice as likely to live beyond age five.

> > Click here to join 1GOAL

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty. You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK