In FIVE weeks’ time I will
be retiring from my employment as Funding Development Manager for Children in
Distress. Today I was given the sad news that CID is in crisis; not quite the
note on which I wished to retire L
Children in Distress is in
its twenty fifth year (FIVE x FIVE) and, in that time, has
given support to thousands, yes literally thousands, of children in Romania and
the Balkans – the forgotten children of Eastern Europe. During the time that I have supported
Children in Distress (the last eight years as a paid employee) I have grown to
love the children in our care, grown to love the country, the people I have met
and who I now count many as my friends.
After retirement I will continue to support this wonderful small charity
until my dying day; I have seen at firsthand what a difference FIVE
pounds or FIVE RON (Romanian lei) can make to a child who literally has nothing.
Now I know that as you are
reading this (thank you for reading!) you will probably be thinking “Oh here we
go again; someone else wanting my money”.
I have no shame where these kids are involved – yes I AM asking you for money, BUT I am asking for FIVE pounds
that’s all (of course you can give more if you wish to!! J ) and humbly ask that for
the next FIVE weeks that I have left as an employee you give as many FIVE pounds/euros/dollars/RON
as you can, to enable CID to be able to continue to help these lovely children
who so desperately need someone to show that they care what happens to them. If you are able to donate, on a monthly
basis, FIVE pounds that would be simply wonderful. FIVE pounds to most of us is not a
huge amount of money; a jar of coffee, a takeaway, tea and a cream cake, a
couple of balls of knitting wool, packet of toilet rolls etc. But FIVE pounds
to CID can mean so much more; giving FIVE children their only hot meal of
the day, a flu or MMR inoculation for a child at risk, two school books; the
list is endless. Could you forego a
takeaway meal and feed FIVE children instead?
Without your immediate
help, CID is in real danger of having to close down some or all of its projects
and it is for this reason that I am appealing to you now from the bottom of my
heart; we simply cannot let this happen, not for the sake of a FIVE pound
note! If you are able to help, please go to our website www.childrenindistress.org and
press the ‘Donate’ button NOW! Thank you J
In return I will give you a
‘High FIVE’. The definition of
a High FIVE is a follows:
High FIVE
‘Symbol of celebration when something good is
said/done. The causes for the call of "HIGH FIVE" can vary from
anything as small as finding something cool on the floor to something as big as
saving the world from almost certain destruction’
