Haslemere’s Gift of Hope
Fundraising campaign by
Claire Smith
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£4,450.00raised of £5,000.00 goal goal
We're organising the donation and delivery of 'Bags of Hope' to the refugee children arriving daily in Greece, and are asking you to help.
Syria’s civil war is the worst humanitarian disaster of our time. The suffering has become so great that now entire families - babies, young women, pregnant women, the elderly - are making the journey. According to the UN, the number of innocent civilians displaced so far is more than 11 million and more than half of all Syrian refugees are under the age of 18.
We know that we do not have the expertise of humanitarian aid organisations, but we also know that we want to help. So we have decided to organise the donation and delivery of 'Bags of Hope' to be given to refugee children. This won't provide them with life essentials, but rather give them a small ray of happiness. Inside each backpack will be a warm outfit, gloves and wellies for winter, a toothbrush and toothpaste, a toy and a book.
If you would like to help, please donate money to help with the logistics and distribution of sending the bags over to Greece.
Fundraising Team
- Claire Smith
- Campaign Owner
- Claire Smith
- Campaign Owner
Donors
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 02, 2022
- Barrow Hills School Witley
- Donated on Nov 04, 2015
Funds raised from the Barrow Hills School Cake and Bacon Roll Sales
- jenny stone
- Donated on Nov 03, 2015
Getting the bags to Greek/Macedonian border
Update posted by Claire Smith at 11:00 amWe're delighted to be working with the UK based charity Syria Relief to get out bags to the Greek/Macedonian border, where thousands of refugees are passing through. We are organising a 40ft container to collect the remaining 7 tonnes of bags from George Lambert and Sons in Fernhurst straight to. . . . .
9 tonnes sorted!
Update posted by Claire Smith at 08:02 amWe've been so busy recently that we haven't had much time to tell everyone what we have already achieved. Our Big Sort was a huge success and we managed to sort and pack 9 tonnes - that's around 4,000 bags! The loose donations we weren't able to organise went to. . . . .
Donations and Delivery to Kos
Update posted by Claire Smith at 01:03 pmWe have now got a number of public and private places available for drop offs. We are hoping to add to this list early next week but are just waiting on confirmation from a few more places.Little SproutsPendarvis Court, Crossways Road, GrayshottGU26 6HG Weds to Friday 10-3.30 and Saturday 10-2pmPossibly. . . . .
Donors & Comments
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 02, 2022
- Barrow Hills School Witley
- Donated on Nov 04, 2015
Funds raised from the Barrow Hills School Cake and Bacon Roll Sales
- jenny stone
- Donated on Nov 03, 2015
- Helen Davis
- Donated on Oct 25, 2015
An inspired initiative. Great news that it's going to Lesvos. Thank you for giving us a way of helping.
- Mohammed shami
- Donated on Oct 24, 2015
- Erica Moore
- Donated on Oct 16, 2015
- Susanna Lloyd
- Donated on Oct 16, 2015
What a fantastic effort from 2 inspirational ladies and their supporters. Lovely to see the bags reach their destinations.
- Julie Parker
- Donated on Oct 13, 2015
Such a good idea, meant to do a bag but ran out of time so here's my contribution instead!
- Liza L
- Donated on Oct 13, 2015
- Vicky McLaren
- Donated on Oct 13, 2015
