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Just before Christmas we distributed over 100 nets to children in the Kumali District of Uganda to support the work of HORD (Helping Orphans & Rural Development) a charity that organises foster care to orphans in desperate need of kind people to take them in and care for them as their own children.
I heard of the work of HORD through a very good friend of mine, Erin who had done some voluntary work with them last year and we were happy to support their work by providing all the children with nets.
I have just this morning received this lovely email from Simon the Founder of HORD, in it he explains:
27 February 2010
26 February 2010
What a couple of weeks.........
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So there we were, it was Sunday, Valentines Day, meant to be a happy day! Nothing exciting happening in fact following a tough couple of weeks I was hoping that things were on the up. So to leave your house in the afternoon & within 45 mins of leaving, find your home has been broken into was devastating.
They took4 laptops, cameras, phones, ipods, psp, watches, & just about anything else they could get hold of quickly, filling my laptop bag that was full of hard drives, card readers, memory sticks you name it. They trashed the house & left their trail of destruction, our personal space totally violated. I felt sick, I felt numb, I felt angry, I felt devastated, I felt disbelief & then back to sick again. The emotional rollercoaster was just unbelievable. To go into your home & find everything everywhere awful & to know strangers have been through your things, stolen laptops containing years of work, back up discs, everything you have worked so hard to afford, gone in 45 mins.
So there we were, it was Sunday, Valentines Day, meant to be a happy day! Nothing exciting happening in fact following a tough couple of weeks I was hoping that things were on the up. So to leave your house in the afternoon & within 45 mins of leaving, find your home has been broken into was devastating.
They took4 laptops, cameras, phones, ipods, psp, watches, & just about anything else they could get hold of quickly, filling my laptop bag that was full of hard drives, card readers, memory sticks you name it. They trashed the house & left their trail of destruction, our personal space totally violated. I felt sick, I felt numb, I felt angry, I felt devastated, I felt disbelief & then back to sick again. The emotional rollercoaster was just unbelievable. To go into your home & find everything everywhere awful & to know strangers have been through your things, stolen laptops containing years of work, back up discs, everything you have worked so hard to afford, gone in 45 mins.
10 February 2010
Welcome to my new blog!!
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Hello!
I guess after a couple of years I really wanted to jazz up my blog a bit!! So from now on this will be my new blog for the ACDT!
However there is a wealth of history attached to the old blog so please don't forget it, its an interesting read!!
www.africaschild.org.uk/blog
Hello!
I guess after a couple of years I really wanted to jazz up my blog a bit!! So from now on this will be my new blog for the ACDT!
However there is a wealth of history attached to the old blog so please don't forget it, its an interesting read!!
www.africaschild.org.uk/blog
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