Comic Relief
David Tennant makes an appeal on behalf of Comic Relief.
David Tennant makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Comic Relief.
Registered Charity Number 326568
To Give:
- Freephone 0800 404 8144
- Freepost 大象传媒 Radio 4 Appeal. (That's the whole address. Please do not write anything else on the front of the envelope). Mark the back of the envelope 'Red Nose Day 2017'.
- Cheques should be made payable to 'Red Nose Day 2017'.
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Comic Relief
Comic Relief is a UK charity which aims to create a just world, free from poverty - where everyone is safe, healthy, educated and empowered. Since 1985, Comic Relief has raised over 拢1 billion. That money has helped, and is helping, people living incredibly tough lives, both at home in the UK and across the world.
Life on Bomeh rubbish dump
In Freetown Sierra Leone in 2013, David Tennant met Sheka and his wife Kadia who were living and working with their four children on the Bomeh rubbish dump, scavenging for plastic to recycle. As a father, Sheka felt ashamed to give his children such a bad start in life. You hear their story in the Radio 4 Appeal.
A life of un-ending poverty
Sheka and Kadia couldn鈥檛 find another way to survive, until a grant for 拢150 from Comic Relief gave them the chance to get away from the rubbish dump and start a business making and selling stoves.聽 This means their children can now go to school and don鈥檛 have to spend their days sifting through rubbish.聽聽
A business start-up
A grant from Comic Relief made this market food-stall possible.
And the children can go to school
拢70 pays for everything a child needs for school for a
year.聽 And now, with an education, the
children have the chance to break the vicious circle of extreme and unending
poverty that they were trapped in.聽
Photos by Lucille Flood.聽
Broadcasts
- Sun 26 Mar 2017 07:54大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 26 Mar 2017 21:26大象传媒 Radio 4
- Thu 30 Mar 2017 15:27大象传媒 Radio 4
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