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MINE IS TO THE G8,
During the meeting on 4th Oct 08, my plea to you is that you address the issue of padeatric ARVs to some countries in Africa. I have visited Mozambique and it's a country that needs much support regarding access the ARVS. My cry is more to the children who should not die before their time.

Thank you for the support the developing countries continue receiving from you.

Joy

Hi All,
Just to remind us all of a very simple way to donate to Kroo Bay and the wider Save the Children causes whenever we do any online shopping.

Save the Children are a partner to www.anolivebranch.co.uk who pass on a donation with every purchase we make at any of their 120 stores - including the likes of Tesco, Next, M&S, Mothercare and John Lewis.

If you haven't registered yet, please have a look today - its a dead simple way of raising thousands for Kroo Bay and other projects.

In my school we raise money for Africa because they can't find safe water to drink. Africa is a poor conutry and there is no water and no food and I am shocked that 5000 chilldren die every day and I will save Africa.

I was totally shocked at the numbers of babies dying because of the lack of basic things in their communities. I have started knitting hats for the babies, in the hope that they will help a little. I am going to enlist the help of all my friends in this project too.
For the cost of a ball of wool, a little time spent knitting - most of which I will be doing while watching TV, as I am disabled - and a little effort sending them to Save The Children, there will be more babies surviving in this world of ours.
Being an OAP I am not able to promise money evey month, but have started saving bits of change and when I have collected £10 I will be sending it o Save The Children.

After watching the film and reading the article in one of the UK national newspaper some time ago about Kroo Bay I was shock to see how things have got so bad in a this community which use to be a nice place to be in as child. It was also a business centre with lot of boats full of fisher men and wood merchants selling their goods to the local community.

I am a sierra leonean living in the UK who spent part of her childhood in Kroo Bay way back in the 60's. Kroo Bay (or Baye as was known as,) used to be a very clean and beautiful place with very few houses and people around. It was a peaceful and welcoming surrounding where us children play games, swim and play foot ball and do our laundry.
I truly hope that support from caring people all over the world will bring change to aleviate the poor living conditions of the people. I believe that the first step to take should be in hygiene education but also providing micro business support to women who are very often the main bread winners due to lack of employment facilities for men. We should also find ways to provide training for youth and men which will lead to employment.

I will be willing to impart with my advocacy and research skills but also with my experiences as a parent and grand parent who has been living in the UK for close to 40years

Save the children!!

I would love to save a child, but I don't know what it might take to do that and I may not have all the funds needed to safeguard (within the limits of possibility) even one individual.

But I could see myself signing up to a 'save a Kroo Bay child' action plan which lists the key areas where money is needed to give that child his or her maximum chances of reaching adulthood in health and safety. I and others could put money into the pot until collectively we had brought it to completion. It would be like an individual child fund, albeit one of the thousands of other child funds that Kroo Bay needs support for.. but we may move one obstacle at a time. There could and should, of course, be a general pot as well as not eveyone would want to donat in the same way, and you STC would want some unrestricted funds (just remember to tell us why you want them?).

One the one hand, we the community would be able to see the chances of one child's life being safeguarded as within our reach, and we would know clearly what it takes to achieve that within an area such as Kroo Bay, or any other. On the other, we would be acting together, pooling our money but also connecting our thoughts, feelings and perhaps our dialogue in unity and collaboration.

The STC challenge is 'we save the children, will you?' and my answer is oh yes please let me save just one child, and then another, and then another. Please make it seem real to me that my donations have the chance of safeguarding one young human life to the point of adulthood.

I have just spent the last hour explooring Kroo Bay, and listening to/watching the children who live there.

I lived and worked in Freetown in 1984/85, and the thing I remember most about the people is their spirit, determination - and being able to laugh and smile in conditions that would make most Europeans cry and give up. Watching the videos, that spirit is still there - despite all of the atrocities that Sierra Leone have faced in the last twenty+ years.

I don't know the answer to the current situation, I doubt if there is any single answer, but the people of Freetown are proud, have inner strength, and will respond to help where it is given. Money is not the sole answer, but training volunteers to work amongst them and help them, with money paying for projects that will help them may well be a better answer. How about getting a clean water source to Kroo Bay, in hygenic conditions, allowing mothers to bathe and shower the children. And to clean up the river!!! How do you do that - but unless you start you will never finish.

and finally, Kroo Bay is just one of many slum areas in Freetown, Freetown just one poor city amongst hundreds, and Sierra Leone just one poor country (the poorest?) amongst many. Whatever may be done in Kroo Bay will just raise hopes, and cause disappointment amongst others.

Good luck to those who go and help

This website is a powerful communication tool. I was motivated to reach out to donate from halfway across the world. I hope my donation will be helpful.

Honestly... what's wrong with the people? Can't they see... are they blindfolded? I seriously don't understand... being a 16 year old I can see the pain the people are enduring due to extreme poverty conditions. Why can't people with power see it... or is it that they don't want to see it and neglect this serious issue..? Why can't the influential leaders of our world is unable to save those little children.?
Is it so hard to provide essential services to the community...
Please... anybody who's seeing my message... please... think of the impact you can make on innocent children's lives...
Save them!!! Do whatever you can...please...
Leaders, merchants, businessmen, etc etc... Please listen to me and listen to their desperate call for help.... hear their crying voices...
Please...do something for this world we all share...


I'm just a normal 16 year old from Maldives (in S. Asia)

If there's anything I can do, contact me.