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ChildLine / NSPCC

Child Line

Volunteers are the heart of ChildLine’s service.

Currently, ChildLine can only answer two-thirds of the 2.3 million calls they receive each year.

They urgently need more volunteers to speak to children and young people on their helpline, work with them in schools, and to support in fundraising, administration and management. Full training and support is provided.

For more details visit: www.nspcc.org.uk

ActionAid - Child Sponsorship Programme

Batieka, Ghana

Batieka is a beautiful 14-year-old girl who lives in Ghana. I have been her sponsor through ActionAid for a number of years and would highly recommend this initiative to others.

If you are interested in helping a child, their family and their community build a better life, contact ActionAid on:
www.actionaid.org
supporterservices@actionaid.org.uk
Telephone: 01460 238000






Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU)

WildCRU

Part of the University of Oxford Department of Zoology

"For years the familiarity of lions, easily photographed in their lethargic slumbers by passing tourists, deluded conservationists into the belief that all was well. Increasingly, it is becoming clear that numbers of lions across the continent are declining."
Professor David Macdonald, WildCRU Review

The World Conservation Union now classifies lions as ‘vulnerable’.

A WildCRU team has been working in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe (home to one quarter of the country’s lions) since 1999. Zimbabwe is one of the major tourist hunting destinations in Africa and although sport hunting is illegal in national parks, many animals stray, or are lured, outside of the park boundaries where they can then be legally shot. Before the project started, hunting quotas had been set up for these concession areas in the absence of any reliable research and this was having a drastic effect on the lion population in the area. WildCRUs research persuaded the Department of National Parks to halve the quota in 2003 (from 60 to 30 adult males) and subsequently to introduce a two-year outright ban for 2004-2006.

ZOA (UK) - Zambia Orphans of Aids

Zoa - Zambian Orphans with Aids

HIV/AIDS has left an estimated one million children in Zambia orphans.

Just £120 a year can keep a child in education and living with their extended family, rather than on the streets.

If you would like to make an immediate donation or become a friend of ZOA for only £50, click here:
(www.justgiving.com/zoauk/donate)