Breakfasting for Sierra Leone
The morning of
Saturday, June 24th, 2006, saw the second Big Breakfast for Sierra
Leone.
Rick
and Rosie Walker welcomed some forty fasting friends to their
house and garden in Mayfair Avenue, Crosby, where they
enjoyed good food and good company for the morning. The aim was to
raise funds for the ongoing work of the Waterloo Partnership, the
admirable organisation which is developing growing and successful links
between our Waterloo and the impoverished township of the same name in
Sierra Leone. St Faith's has been 'on board' the Partnership since its
inception, and three of the U.K. Steering Committee members were
breakfasting, as was Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas, Crosby's M.P. - Chair of
the Committee and inspiration behind the original Partnership project.
The event raised the best part of
£300. Chris Price's pictures illusrtate this happy and successful
happening. Some of us breakfasted outside under umbrellas, but it
cleared up later. You can see Rick and Rosie and their daughter Becky,
as well as assorted breakfasters being waited on by some of our young
people (many of whom, appropriately, are church servers seconded to
serving sausages for the day!) Finally, the inevitable raffle was drawn
and some at least went home with a prize - although everyone will have
gone home happy in the knowledge that they had done something to help
what is still the poorest country in the world.
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of the Waterloo Partnership follow THIS LINK
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