Can you help?
In only a matter of weeks the Children from Chernobyl will be with us in Needham Market for their health recuperation visit. This year we have 16 children aged 7 and 8 years old, 4 boys and 12 girls all coming form the Village of Cherikov in Belarus.
They will have to leave home at 3 am to make the 5 hour journey to Minsk Airport and will arrive tired but excited in Needham Market on July 10th. The children will be staying with families in the immediate area but also as far away as Norfolk. Monday to Friday they will all meet together at the Needham Market Football Club which is donated to us to use for the duration of the visit. With this as our base we will be taking the children on various outings and organised activities, many of which are sponsored by local businesses and associations. The children will arrive with only the clothes they stand in and we are now urgently collecting new and nearly new clothing for them which they will have great fun choosing for themselves and brothers/sisters at home when they come to the welcome party which is hosted for them by the Ladies of Needham Market Football Club.
If you have anything at all to donate that will fit children from the ages of 6 to 11 we would be extremely grateful.
Donations can be dropped into our Charity Shop in Needham Market (adjacent to the Rampant Horse Public House) in Coddenham Road. Alternatively, please feel free to call me to arrange collection.
Also very welcome would be toys that the children can play with and take home at the end of their visit.
They love all sorts of toys and games but books are regrettably not acceptable as the children cannot read English.
Some of you may be aware that for the second year, Kevin Parker is undertaking a bike ride from London to Paris at the end of June to raise funds for this years visit. Last year he did amazingly well raising over five thousand pounds! The bike ride is taking place over only three days, that’s over a hundred miles each day and this year his friend Mark Tennant is joining him. They are currently both training hard although it is not easy to find hill practise in Suffolk!
You can follow their progress at www.justgiving.com/KevinParkerandMarkTennent With grateful thanks to all who support us, without you, this program would not exist.
If anyone is interested in finding out more about the program or is maybe interested in hosting or
supporting us please visit our website at www.ccllmidsuffolk.org.uk or call me on the number below.
Elizabeth Parker -Link Chair 01449 760343
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