Macclesfield Oxfam's Shop Manager is walking for water and looking to the community to sponsor her - the walk starts at 9am on 24th June from the Mill Street Shop and finishes approx. 20 miles and several hours later at The Hollybush Inn, Longsdon, Stoke on Trent.
Please call into the shop to sponsor her at the counter. Thankyou.
Macclesfield Oxfam's Shop Manager is Walking for water on
Mid-Summers Day, Thursday 24 June 2010
The walk will start at 9am at the Oxfam Shop, Mill Street
Through to Macclesfield Football Ground
Along the Macclesfield Canal
Up towards the cloud, Bosley
Alongside Rudyard Lake and the Miniature Railway
Continuing along the waterways including the Cauldon Canal to Longsdon, Stoke-on-Trent finally finishing at The Hollybush Inn, Longsdon.
PLEASE GET INVOLVED NOW! SPONSOR OUR MANAGER FOR THIS EVENT THERE IS A SPONSORSHIP ON THE COUNTER AT THE STORE - EVERY LITTLE HELPS!
OR BETTER STILL APPLY TO JOIN HER & GET SPONSORED, AS WELL
NB: YOU WILL HAVE A GREAT TIME BUT YOU WILL NEED SOMEONE TO MEET YOU AT THE OTHER END!
Every £90 raised will provide water for 100 people. Few gifts are more important than this. Your gift helps set up or maintain a safe water supply, whatever the circumstances, in whatever form it s needed pumps, tanks, purification systems or pipes. Set up a school or village for the first time, or restore the supply after an emergency.
Why Walk for Water? Water and sanitation?
* Worldwide, more than one billion people do not have clean, safe water
* Each year, two million people, most of them children under five, die from diarrhoea
How Oxfam responds
In any emergency, lives are put at risk by inadequate water supplies and poor sanitation. Oxfam s water engineers are known internationally for the speed and efficiency with which they can help provide large-scale water supplies, and essential sanitation facilities, even in the most difficult circumstances.
In chronic emergencies that unfold over a longer period of time, there is more scope to develop solutions that are more cost-effective and appropriate to local conditions
Oxfam public health teams also work alongside our water engineers to ensure water and sanitation facilities are used properly, and so prevent the spread of disease.
Maintaining standards
Oxfam aims to provide each person that is supported in an emergency situation with at least 15 litres of clean water per day for drinking, cooking, and washing. This is one of a number of internationally recognised minimum standards set by the Sphere Humanitarian Charter that we helped to create. It sets out what people, affected by disasters, have a right to expect from organisations providing humanitarian assistance.
So please dig deep and donate now either through the shop in Mill Street or visit our justgiving page - and please, if you can, gift aid your donation...http://www.justgiving.com/Oxfam-Macclesfield-walking4water
Thank you
