Charity Table Quiz
For all you table quiz boffins out there a few of the infactah crew are helping to organise a charity table quiz next Wednesday the 23rd of November in Fitzgearld's pub (adjacent to the Centra store, beside O'Connell bridge). Unfortunately our leader Colm won't be in attendance as he is off in some far flung little country somewhere in the South Pacific called New Zealand. God knows why he went all that way just to see a few million sheep, sure don't we have enough of them in Ireland?
Anyway with regard to the table quiz all money raised will be sent directly to the Mangango mission in Zambia. Zambia is a country which receives little media attention, primarily because its people have lived in peace since its independence in 1964. However the absence of conflict does not necessarily equate with improvement in living standards. 68% of Zambia's citizens live below the national poverty line and one in six children die before their fifth birthday. In the past two years maternal mortality, deaths from AIDS and child hunger have been rising.
Currently the situation in Zambia is grim. Zambia's Vulnerability Assessment Committee (VAC) identified that up to 1.23 million people would need relief prior to the next harvest in February-March 2006. Crop failure of between 40% and 90% has been identified in 27 affected districts.
The Mangango mission, located in Malengwa is one such area. The co-ordinator of this relief operation is Father Damien Loughrey. Damien's work includes managing a Leprosarium and a Chesire home for physically and mentally disabled children. From the reports we have received from him, food supplies are already running low in the Mangango mission. To compound matters there is still no sign of the desperately needed rains. The survival of these people is dependent now on food donations from the E.U. These supplies are often slow in coming however and are never sufficient. SOMEONE ALWAYS MISSES OUT.
This is where our support comes in. The money we raise will go directly to the Malengwa area and will help alleviate some of the suffering of these forgotten people.
If you are free on Wednesday the 23rd and would like to showcase your table quiz talent while supporting a worthy cause, your presence at this quiz would be much appreciated.
Published by Colm.
Anyway with regard to the table quiz all money raised will be sent directly to the Mangango mission in Zambia. Zambia is a country which receives little media attention, primarily because its people have lived in peace since its independence in 1964. However the absence of conflict does not necessarily equate with improvement in living standards. 68% of Zambia's citizens live below the national poverty line and one in six children die before their fifth birthday. In the past two years maternal mortality, deaths from AIDS and child hunger have been rising.
Currently the situation in Zambia is grim. Zambia's Vulnerability Assessment Committee (VAC) identified that up to 1.23 million people would need relief prior to the next harvest in February-March 2006. Crop failure of between 40% and 90% has been identified in 27 affected districts.
The Mangango mission, located in Malengwa is one such area. The co-ordinator of this relief operation is Father Damien Loughrey. Damien's work includes managing a Leprosarium and a Chesire home for physically and mentally disabled children. From the reports we have received from him, food supplies are already running low in the Mangango mission. To compound matters there is still no sign of the desperately needed rains. The survival of these people is dependent now on food donations from the E.U. These supplies are often slow in coming however and are never sufficient. SOMEONE ALWAYS MISSES OUT.
This is where our support comes in. The money we raise will go directly to the Malengwa area and will help alleviate some of the suffering of these forgotten people.
If you are free on Wednesday the 23rd and would like to showcase your table quiz talent while supporting a worthy cause, your presence at this quiz would be much appreciated.
Published by Colm.
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