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August 2008
 

Blanket Appeal for Moldova

The worst floods to hit Eastern Europe in 200 years have driven children's charity Feed The Children UK to appeal for blankets to help the thousands of people to keep warm...

August 2008
 

Run, walk or toddle to help Feed The Children!

Serious or fun runners and enthusiastic leisure walkers are being asked to help raise money for Feed The Children UK, in Twyford, by taking part in the Peppard 10K run/7K walk, which takes place in beautiful south Oxfordshire countryside...

read the full press release

read more about the Peppard run

August 2008
 

Charity Seeks Ethnic Musicians for Concert

Children's charity Feed The Children UK is holding a special concert of World Worship music at Birmingham Cathetral on Saturday 22 November and is seeking two more acts to complete the line-up.

July 2008
 

Eat A Breakfast Save A Life! in 2009

Fancy eating a hearty breakfast to save someone else's life? That's what children's charity Feed The Children is asking people to sign up to in their 'Eat A Breakfast - Save A Life' appeal...

read the full press release

July 2008
 

Kamillosan donation helps Ugandan children

Kamillosan, the mother and baby brand which has been trusted and recommended by mothers and midwives for 75 years, is donating 6m tablets of the anti-diarrhoea medication Dymotil to UK charity Feed The Children UK....

July 2008
 

"Feed Every Child" - Harvest festival 2008 campaign

A children's charity has issued a plea for monetary and food donations from schools' harvest festivals so they can deliver a vital lifeline to children in Africa...

read the full press release

read more about FTC resources for harvest 2008

June 2008
 

Emergency appeal - Ethiopia

Children's charity Feed The Children UK has launched an appeal for drought-stricken Ethiopia where 3.4m people are judged to be in critical need of emergency help...

read the full press release

read more about FTC programmes in Ethiopia

June 2008
 

Is Phyllis Donaldson our oldest knitter?

Ninety-nine year old Phyllis Donaldson from East Ardsley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, is still producing beautiful blankets and knitted jumpers in her centenary year to support Feed The Children UK's humanitarian work around the world...

read the full press release

read more about knitting for Feed The Children

February 2008
 

Wear the Tree Ribbon!

Trees are essential for the planet's well-being, but just like our own natural resources, trees in parts of Africa are under pressure. Now Feed The Children is looking for partners to help its new 'Saplings' project, which educates children to protect this vital natural resource...

read the full press release

read more about the Tree Ribbons project

26 February 2008
 

Eat A Breakfast Save a Life Day

Schools, companies, churches and clubs across the country held a fundraising breakfast for Feed The Children on and around 26 February 2008.

Time Team presenter Professor Mick Aston wore a specially designed breakfast jumper to draw attention to the campaign.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, yet so many children miss out on its benefits...
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December 2007 - New Zimbabwe aid programme

We are delighted to announce a new partnership supporting 13 schools for children with special needs in Gweru, Zimbabwe.  
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December 2007 - New Moldova aid programme

We are delighted to announce a new partnership, supporting children in Moldova, eastern Europe (between Romania and the Ukraine), and our first container of aid donated in the UK has already been sent. 
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December 2007 - New Ethiopia aid programme

Our new programme in Ethiopia will bring much needed work skills to 500 young people, when a new technical and vocational training school is built.
find out more...

8 September - 24 November 2007

Cast offs -

Knitting enthusiasts from across Aberdeen have collaborated to create an artwork and aid package as part of the city's commemoration of the abolition of slavery.
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30 July 2007

The Rice Pavilion

At Jubilee Library, Brighton, the Rice Pavilion is taking shape.

International artists' group, The Edible Construction Company, are hoping to raise awareness of food waste by building a replica of Brighton's most famous building - in rice.

At the end of the exhibition, the 10,000 kilos of vacuum packed rice will be presented to Feed The Children for distribution in its projects overseas - providing food for 10,000 children for a month.

You can see the Rice Pavilion for yourself:

Construction:  28 July - 10 August

Completed pavilion:  11 - 18 August

Deconstruction: 20 - 24 August

Click here to follow the construction online.

23 January 2007

Aid to Afghanistan

We are delighted that recently, we sent three pallets of aid to the sensitive Helmand  Province of Afghanistan. The conflict in the region between the Afghan government and Taleban forces has featured on the news this week. 

Afghan winters are bitterly cold, and the local population are in need of support; but the area is too dangerous to send aid workers into.

We are delighted to be working with HM Royal Marines, who will be delivering sleeping bags and warm knitted clothing to families in Helmand Province.

Thanks to our knitting supporters, who have provided children's jumpers, hats, scarves and mittens, Afghan children will be a little warmer.

At the same time, the 'Hearts and Minds' initiative of HM Royal Marines to build relationships with communities in the region will be assisted.