World Vision - Week For Children
The World Vision Week for Children starts today, the 8th June 2009 and I had an email to say:-
World Vision's Week for Children is fast approaching,and as one of our invaluable supporters, you can help us to make aneven bigger difference - simply by spreading the news.
You already know sponsoring a child helps to provide them with a brighter future, but as always, more are in need of help.
All we ask is that you tell five friends about World Vision's Weekfor Children and the Channel Five reports. If each person who receivesyour email considers sponsorship and forwards it onto five more friendswho consider sponsorship, it will be a huge success - meaning and moreand more children can expect a better start in life. So why not simplyforward this email on to five of your friends right now?
I have sponsored a child for a while, and I can say that it is anincredibly rewarding experience. As Dorothy has learned to write andexpress herself her letters, although simple, have meant something eachtime they arrive. Before she could write herself , her guardians wouldwrite as her parents are unable too.
I have Dorothy's photo on my desk at work, it is something I feltwould mean that I didnt just sponsor and forget her, but include her inmy daily life. There are days where it has done me a great deal of goodto sit back and remember one of the lines from her letters
it is very hot here and so we have to spend most of the day in our hut
If anything it helps me keep things in perspective.
For UK Taxpayers World Vision is a registered charity and so willclaim Gift Aid on your sponsorship. For your Limited Company thecharitable donation would be a deductible expense against profits.
Here are some more details about World Vision.
World Vision launches its Week for Children on Monday, aiming tofind new sponsors for children living in some of the world’s poorestcountries.
The organisation has teamed up with Channel Five, who will show aseries of special reports during their flagship five o’clock newsbulletin from 8 June.
Focusing on health, and specifically the five main killers ofunder-fives, the reports will highlight the issue of the nine millionchildren who die each year from preventable illnesses.
The reports will also show the positive difference that sponsorship can make for children living in developing countries.
World Vision aims to attract 5,000 new sponsors during the Week for Children
Click here to find out more about sponsoring a child.
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