I have been unable to hire an affordable hall from any of our local churches for our next fundraising event to be held in September. This is now cancelled for this current year. Luckily the sponsored walk is raising far more money than envisaged so will make up some what for the loss of funds from the sponsored event which is now cancelled.
I have just recieved news from Frans Ballack of Hope Project in Kwazulu. He said the winter there for the orphans living in the rural remote ares is very bad this year and there is another urgent need for blankets. We also supplied blankets last year but sadly there was not enough for all the children.
At the moment we have received just over £1,800 from the sponsored walk. There is still quite an amount of money still to come in which I am hoping will arrive shortly as there are many urgent needs for funding in Kwazulu right now.
On Saturday June 10th twenty-two adults and four children walked from Richmond Station to Kew (the sponsored walk). It was a gloriously sunny day a beautiful walk and very enjoyable. Some of the walkers have already shown an interest in participating in a sponsored walk next year.
The arrangements for the sponsored walk are going well and we have had an ethusiastic response from people wishing to join us on the walk. So far we have raised over £700 and hope to raise £1000 in total.
