£7920 raised for Charities
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£7920 raised for Charities
Posted: Thursday, July 8, 2010 - 17:07
Fundraising at Cobham Hall this year has raised the grand total of £7920.
The money has gone to support a number of projects and causes.
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£2,000
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To the Ko Phi Phi Island Project in Thailand, which is building a community centre for a village destroyed by the Tsunami in 2004. A party of students also went out to work as volunteers on this project.
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£2,000
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To Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education) to help educate girls in Africa.
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£1,200
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To the Red Cross for the Haiti Earthquake appeal.
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£1,000
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To Cancer Research.
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£660
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To help pay school fees at Starehe in Kenya for an orphan student. This is an ongoing project. The student who was helped by fundraising at Cobham Hall over the past 5 years has just started at University and we are now supporting a new student.
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£560
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To Father Joe’s Mercy Centre in Bangkok, which acts as an orphanage, a hospice, a home for mothers and children with HIV/AIDS, a shelter for street children, a 400 pupil kindergarten and a community meeting place and serene haven in the slums, with a small garden and playground.
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£300
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Purchase of a computer for disabled students in Bangladesh.
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£200
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To the Prince Alexander Fund to provide building materials for Round Square projects.
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