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A New Home for Little Rock Students

Written by Katy on August 17, 2011 - 0 Comments
Categories: Little Rock, Supporting our Work

On July 7th 2011, Euromoney held thier annual Awards for Excellence Dinner, one of the most prestigious banking awards ceremonies in the industry. AbleChildAfrica was fortunate to be chosen as the benefiting charity on the night and enough money was raised to begin work on building a bigger and better Inclusive Early Childhood Development Centre [...]

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They made it! Drumming up support from highest mountain

Written by Katy on December 1, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: AbleChildAfrica, Supporting our Work

Our Patron Dame Evelyn Glennie – who took on the huge challenge of scaling Mount Kilimanjaro with a team of disabled Africans reached the peak early this morning (Wednesday 1 December). Congratulations to everyone involved! Evelyn, who is an international percussionist, literally “played” her way up the mountain with her drumsticks to raise awareness of [...]

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Meet The Climbers #2 heading for the summit

Written by Katy on November 30, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: AbleChildAfrica, Supporting our Work

Tonight is the final night before the AbleClimbsAfrica team makes its assault on the summit. We’ve talked about some of the disabled African climbers in the team including Florence, Fred and Shikuku. We’ve also heard about the great contribution that AbleChildAfrica’s patron, Dame Evelyn Glennie is making by being on the climb, inspiring the team [...]

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Kili Climbers On World Service

Written by Katy on November 27, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: AbleChildAfrica, Supporting our Work

Last week the BBC World Service interviewed two of the disabled African campaigners who are climbing Kilimanjaro for AbleChildAfrica ahead of their challenge. As The BBC website says: “Kenyan Frederick Ouko and his Ugandan team-mate, Florence Ndagire, haven’t let their disabilities get in the way of their success” You can hear their interview right now [...]

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Able Team Starts Kilimanjaro Climb

Written by Katy on November 27, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: AbleChildAfrica, Supporting our Work

The AbleChildAfrica team starts its ascent of Kilimanjaro today with a team of around 20 climbers – including six disabled climbers – heading bravely to the top. They are lead by our patron Dame Evelyn Glennie who says she has I chosen the challenge of climbing Kilimanjaro because she wants to make a difference to [...]

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Juliet’s Great Swim

Written by Katy on June 24, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: AbleChildAfrica, Supporting our Work

Next weekend, Juliet Turnbull will be swimming for us in the  Great British Swim held in Central London! The Challenge is to swim a one-mile swim in the heart of the capital http://www.greatswim.org/ The Royal Victoria Dock, venue of the British Gas Great London Swim, is situated in the East End of London near Canary [...]

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Smiles party success

Written by Katy on June 11, 2010 - 1 Comment
Categories: AbleChildAfrica, Supporting our Work, Uncategorized

The charity night at Boujis in South Kensington on 9th June was a massive sucess.  So many lovely people came out to support us and raised  £5000 on the night to support surgery for disabled children which will take place in Uganda later in the year.  We have also raised over £2,500 online before and after the [...]

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Triple Marathon Challenge

Written by Katy on March 23, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: AbleChildAfrica, Supporting our Work, Uncategorized

Unbelieveably John Thornton has pledged to go for the triple this year when he takes part in not one but three Marathon’s in support of AbleChildAfrica in 2010.  John’s triple challenge starts with London which, this year, is on April 25th.  After that he will be off to Edinburgh to run another marathon 4 weeks later [...]

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Eva Baguma on working with Able Child Africa

Written by Katy on February 20, 2010 - 2 Comments
Categories: Supporting our Work

“I feel a sense of hope and empowerment working with AbleChildAfrica’s efforts to support disabled children in East Africa. They are passionate about their work and strive towards making a difference in the lives of some of the less fortunate members of our society – the children. Both Uganda Society for Disabled Children and AbleChildAfrica [...]

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