<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Thank you for taking the time to visit my Just giving page!</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">So what's its all about?</span></strong></p> <p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I am raising money for Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO) </span></p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span class="ecx109272715-15122010"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">VSO is the world&rsquo;s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries.</span></p> <p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">VSO works by sending volunteers (like me!) to live and work in developing countries to help pass on their skills and knowledge of a particular area for example teaching,&nbsp;medical advice&nbsp;or&nbsp;business skills&nbsp;to help build a sustainable future for the communities they work in.&nbsp;&nbsp; VSO works in over 40 countries focussing&nbsp;on 6 key areas for development - &nbsp;Education,&nbsp;Disability, HIV and Aids, Health, Secure livelihoods and Partcipation and Governance.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> </p> <p><strong><span style="font-family: Century Gothic; color: #333399;">My placement</span></strong></p> <p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My own placement will be in Calabar on the south coast of Nigeria and I will be working for a charity called Girls Power Initiative&nbsp;(GPI) and their focus is to assist young girls aged 10 - 18 yrs to live healthy lives and achieve their full potential. It&nbsp; includes assisting young girls to overcome the risks of early sexual activity, adolescence unwanted or unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV/AIDS, unsafe abortions, all forms of sexual abuse and harassment as well as other forms of gender-based violence and exploitation.&nbsp; My job will be&nbsp;as a&nbsp;Monitoring and Evaluation&nbsp;Officer focussing on&nbsp;building the capacity of GPI to monitor the HIV and Aids education and prevention</span></p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As you can imagine it takes quite&nbsp;a bit of money to send each volunteer (which is why the need for fundraising!) but the work that VSO do is invaluable and&nbsp;I am really looking forward to being a part of it and the fundraising you are </span><span style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">helping me with today </span><span class="ecx109272715-15122010"><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">will support and continue&nbsp;the&nbsp;work VSO does overall in sending 1500 UK volunteers overseas each year.</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; font-size: 11pt;"></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If you would like more information about both organisations I have included links below.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Thanks again for taking the time to donate,&nbsp;I will be keeping&nbsp;everyone up to date with my adventures over the next year so watch this space!!</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Big Hugs</span></p> <p> <p><span style="font-family: &quot;Century Gothic&quot;; color: #333399; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Jenny xxx</span></p> <p><span style="color: #333399;"> <p> <p><span style="color: #333399;"><span style="color: #008080; font-size: x-small;"> <p><span style="color: #008080; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.vso.org.uk/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: x-small;">http://www.vso.org.uk/</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #008080; font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: #333399;"><span style="color: #008080; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #008080; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #008080; font-size: x-small;"> <p> <p> <p><a href="http://www.gpinigeria.org/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: x-small;">http://www.gpinigeria.org/</span></span></span></span></span></a></p> </p> </p> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> </span></span></p> </p> <p>Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they&rsquo;ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</p> <p>So please dig deep and donate now.</p> </span></p> </p>