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St Barts pupils go without food
Children endure day-long fast
Wed, March 19 2008

Children at St Bartholomew's School and Newbury Baptist Church go 24 hours without food for charity
 

IT may not have been for forty days and forty nights, but children at Newbury's Baptist Church were among young people to give up food last weekend to raise money for abandoned children in India.
Twenty three members of Baptist youth groups and over thirty students at St Bartholomew's School took part in the Wold Vision 24-hour famine to raise money for homeless children in India.
Baptist youth worker Dave Andrews said: “There are young people living on streets and in railway stations who have no identity. They weren’t born in hospitals so don’t have birth certificates.
“World Vision is creating drop-in centres and educational facilities for these young people,” he said.
Volunteers on the UK-wide day-long famine showed experience the hunger that many abandoned children in India suffer each day.
Year 12 St Barts student Illy Kotz said: “The first few hours were tricky because I wanted to eat as I normally would. The last few hours were hardest and it helped me to understand a little bit of how these children feel.”
St Barts RE teacher Natalie Hopkins said that students were aiming to raise £1000, while the Baptist youth group have raised over £2000.
Members of the public can sponsor the Baptists’ efforts at www.bmycharity.com/fusiongoes24hr

 
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