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Monday 19 May 2014

ONE Billion Reasons why YOU should be supporting CAFOD in their work against Poverty and fighting for Civil Rights globally

Hi everyone!

Don’t worry if you don’t know who and what CAFOD do already because I am about to tell you! So I really want to show you all what CAFOD is and how they help so many people all around the world because they are a fantastic charity that really deserves and needs your help! They are basically a charity based in England and Wales who help people globally against poverty, diseases and support people who are campaigning for certain causes. I really really hope that if you read through this blog, you will maybe think about supporting my charity by signing petitions, donating and raising money for them because they are such a super charity that make a lot of people happy globally. I hope that you will understand this charity better at the end and have a different opinion about helping people in other countries in need. Hopefully, this will encourage you to support them and tell other people about CAFOD!!!

Now, I really want to tell you WHY you should CARE because it is really important to me and basically everyone in the world that needs your help!

  • Ok so point number 1 is, imagine if you lived in a poor country that was in debt, you had no rights to speak up against anything you didn’t believe in and you were living in serious poverty with hardly any food, water, education for a big family? How would you feel if people around the world weren’t helping you because of a simple reason like they couldn’t be bothered?
  • Point number 2 is, 55% of the people in Britain don’t help and support charities because they can’t be bothered to make the effort or think they won’t be listened. If you donate money to CAFOD, it isn’t wasted or stolen, it is put into buying food, blankets and water supplies for the needy. I want everyone who reads this blog to change that by supporting this charity. You may think that if you sign one petition, it won’t change anything, but trust me, every comment/signing counts!
  • Point number 3 is, if you do support a charity, (hopefully CAFOD), then you will feel like you have done something good for other people and haven’t just said that you will do it later and then don’t.
  • If no-one supported charities like CAFOD then all around the world poverty and human abuses would thrive getting worse and worse every day. Poverty and no rights are getting better, however all the time that we are sitting down on the sofa watching T.V. and eating chocolate, people are dying of hunger and cold.  CAFOD needs to help change that by receiving as much support as they can get. They use the money that YOU give them to buy all the essentials for people to survive on in the poorer countries. If you sign a petition, this helps to get a meeting with the government to discuss a law or discuss a growing issue.
  • YOU could change a person’s life. Give them food, water, education and their civil rights. YOU could save them from a painful death, or eternal misery. ONLY YOU can do that.













So please post at the bottom of this blog your thoughts and feelings towards CAFOD and the amazing work they do for the people around the world.
If you could also take 2 minutes to answer these questions then that would be great.

  1. Had you heard about CAFOD before you read this blog?
  2. Do you now feel like you now know enough about CAFOD so that you would support, donate or fundraise to help them with their cause?
  3. Would you tell your family and friends about CAFOD and convince them to help in any way that they can?
  4. And finally please tell me where you live, (country or hometown) if not the UK. This is just so that I can see how many people in different parts in of the world have read this blog!
If you want to read more about CAFOD and what they do in more detail or find out how to support them, then follow this link, http://www.cafod.org.uk/. So thank you very very much for reading my blog and I really hope that you feel differently about my charity, CAFOD, now!

Hannah

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