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- One of the UK's largest membership organisations, providing financial and emotional support to the millions of soldiers all year round, not just during Rememberance week.
- A UK based charity that provides care and rehabilitation to survivors of torture and other forms of organised violence. They treat and help over 4000 survivors of torture every year.
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World Vision UK Call for G8 Action on Child Aid
With nearly 10 million children dying before their fifth birthday through preventable illnesses like measles and diarrhoea, World Vision UK is calling on the G8 to address the economic and financial crisis which are causing these deaths across the globe. A decade ago, world leaders laid out plans to cut the death rate among children under 5 by two thirds by 2015. Yet even now, with only six years left to reach that target, there are still parts of Africa that are not even a tenth of the way to reaching that goal.
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UNICEF UK Helping to Protect the Street Children of the Philippines
UNICEF UK has launched a new campaign to help raise money for the estimated 246,000 street children in the Philippines, who face numerous problems such as malnutrition, lack of education, whilst also being at risk to drug abuse, violence and exploitation. Whilst working alongside other local charities and the Philippino Government, UNICEF are concentrating thier efforts on taking children off the streets and putting them into shelters.
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The World Vision Week for Children
The World Vision charity is launching their 'Week for Children' on Monday 8th June 2009. Every day on FIVE news, World Vision will be shining the spotlight on their projects in Zambia whilst trying to attact 5,000 new child sponsors. World Vision's celebrity ambassadors will be fronting the campaign, calling on the people of the UK to join forces with World Vision and take up the challenge to sponsor a child.
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Pover-tee Day 09 with Action Aid
ActionAid launches the UK’s first ever PoverTee Day on Friday 26th June, to help fight the major causes of poverty and hunger worldwide. People across the UK are being urged to ditch their usual attire and take part in PoverTee Day by simply swopping their formal shirts for the day and wearing a t-shirt.
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Action Aid Call For Help in Pakistan Appeal
Action Aid is urging people to dig deep to provide help for the thousands of thousands of people in Pakistan who are fleeing the fighting between government and Taliban forces in northwest Pakistan. Around 800,000 people have fled the Swat Valley due to heavy fighting between the army and the Taliban, with many left with nothing more than the clothes they were wearing.
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World Vision Help to Heal Sri Lanka
World Vision UK requires aid in Sri Lanka as the 60,000 child survivors of the war face up to long-term emotional and mental issues. If assistance does not reach them soon, the survivors of Asia's long-running battle will be scarred for life, especially the children.
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UNICEF UK Claim 09 Budget Fails Children in Poverty
UNICEF UK claim that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, has failed the 3.9 million children living in poverty by pledging only a 38p per week increase to child tax credits. Calls had been made to the Chancellor to commit at least £3 billion through child benefit and tax credits in this years budget, with this being the last opportunity to halve child poverty in the UK by 2010 - a promise now doomed to failure.
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