Monday, May 18, 2015

High FIVE!


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’

 


 

 
Jane x

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