My Fundraiser for Street Child of Sierra Leone

I'm inspired by the work of Street Child and wanted to support them by raising money as part of my participation in Sierra Leone Marathon 2017. Please help me help them by giving whatever you can. The more people that know about Street Child, the greater their impact, so please also spread the word by sharing my page with your friends and family. Thank you in advance for your generosity, it means a lot! What does Street Child do? 1. Find and befriend street children and aim to reunite them with a family – usually their own – through a process of counselling and mediation. Settle them in a safe environment and get them back to school. Give access to education to children in rural areas, construct schools and train teachers. Street Child has created first ever access to education for more than 17,000 children in rural communities. Those communities are given grants and support to enable them to generate income to sustain the school and pay teachers until the government is in a position to take over. Helps girls as young as 14 who rely on commercial sex to survive. Provide them with vocational training and a safe place to live whilst they rebuild their lives. Provide medical, psychological and educational support to more than 180 child amputees. Emergency support, reunification with extended family, trauma counselling and family business set up and support to help ebola orphans and get them back to school. There is also a more recent initiative aimed at helping girls called 'Girls Speak Out' which looks at the additional barriers faced by girls in completing their education and sets out to knock those barriers down. Girls are more likely to drop out of school due to poverty or in order to help support the family, others to early pregnancy. So what does your money do? 1. Takes children off the streets into a safe, nurturing environment. 2. Provides education where before there was little or none. 3. Saves girls from having to trade sex for food. 4. Gives families help to generate their own income. 5. Supports ebola orphans and their carers to overcome their tragic loss and move forward. I want to close by congratulating you and thanking you for your generosity. Your money will soon be hard at work. I will write a blog and take lots of photos of my trip so that you can see exactly where your money goes.