Three More Donations

Today the 30th August I received three more donations into One Life.

I received £50 from Eileen Galsworthy of Enfield Loch, £80 from Ann Booth of Cambridge, Ann makes and sells her own cards on behalf of the charity. And the final donation today was £50 from Shirley McDonald from Kent..

As always I am very grateful for these unexpected donations. I have had to send to South Africa, unexpectedly nearly £1,400 which from a small charity is a very large amount when I wasn't prepared for it.

Part of that was for the funeral of an 11 year old sponsored boy who was stabbed by another boy at school when in a fight over who could wear the one pair of football boots available.

As always, this has stemmed from poverty and the boys not having their own football boots alongside all the other things which many of our children over here have and seem to take for granted.

The rest of the money went to pay for the yearly residential school fees for a Downs Syndrome child. Paying for an education in this school has released the young mum aged 19 to take up her own education which came to a stop at the age of 12 when her parents died of Aids and shortly afterwards she was raped and gave birth to this little girl with Downs.

From the age of 12 this girl was also now the head of a family of much younger children and their lives were extremely difficult.

She is so happy to be in school although she is in a class with 12 year olds. her favourite thing at school is playing netball.