One Of Those Things That Can’t Be Ignored
May 1, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Sometimes an email lands in my inbox that makes me sit up.
Somehow the message breaks through the fug of noise in my head.
I read.
Scepticism enters.
What’s the cost? How much are they looking for?
And then the beauty of this one makes me smile and reach for my credit card – it’s only €40.
While in Northern Uganda recently, we came across some young kids between 3 and 5 who were the offspring of girls who had been abducted from their families and subjected to lives of rape and torture in the bush under the rebel leader Joseph Kony and the LRA.
These girls are made pregnant by the “commanders” (themselves kids) and if rescued find it hard to ever go home because of the shame.
The babies are usually the last to ever get any assistance or help.
But ZEST4KIDZ hopes to change that.
We plan to get these wonderful forgotten young kids into primary education and sponsor them for the next first steps of their lives. We will assist their young mums too – but we need your help to look after the babies.
WHAT DO THEY NEED? €40 – this will cover them for the next 12 months
Can you help us help them?
Donate €40 this bank holiday weekend and feel good about yourself. For these kids have had to deal with a very different R word. Now we have a chance to give them a chance.
Comments (one response)
Go girl. Nice one.
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