End Somalia's Poverty with Live Below the Line
Could you live on just £1 a day?
Take part in Live Below the Line, challenge yourself to eat for just £1 per day for 5 days and experience the reality facing thousands of Somalis living in extreme poverty. Get sponsored during your challenge and help the Somali Relief and Development Forum tackle Somalia’s poverty through raising money towards crucial food and water well campaigns.
Don’t go it alone…
Encourage your friends, family and colleagues to join Live Below the Line’s challenge and support each other through the 5 days. Together you can make a real difference to the suffering facing thousands across Somalia. Do your part to end Somalia’s poverty – join the challenge today!
Click here to sign up to the challenge
Tips on fundraising
Sponsorship – Ask friends, family, colleagues, neighbours and whoever else you can think of to sponsor your challenge through donating on your fundraising page.
Get cooking! – Host a ‘Come Dine Below the Line’ event and ask your guests to donate, or why not run a ‘Bake Below the Line’ cake sale, with money raised going towards your fundraising efforts
Shopping bill – See how much you can raise through donating the difference of your food bill over the 5 day challenge.
About Live Below the Line
Live Below the Line is a fundraising and campaigning event dedicated to raising awareness about the reality of living in extreme poverty through challenging people to live below the poverty line for 5 days. With over 1.4 billion people existing in desperate poverty, the event gives a glimpse into the lives of those in poverty with the aim of raising awareness and funds to tackle the problem of global poverty. Click here for more information
When: Monday 29 April – Friday 3 May 2013
Don’t worry if you can’t take up the challenge during this week, as fundraising will be open until 1 July 2013, giving you plenty of time to take part!
Somali refugees dig the grave of Ibrahim Issack, a six-year-old child who died of complications of severe malnutrition a month after arriving in the camp, according to his uncle Hassan Issack. “We fled Buaale and traveled for 21 days by foot. It was very tiresome. we walked through drought with no food and little water. Along the way we were robbed and women were raped.” (Brendan Bannon/Polaris Images)
A refugee uses twigs and scraps of material to build a shelter for her family. There is no room for most new arrivals in the Dadaab camps, so the thousands of people who arrive every week must carve out a place for themselves in the surrounding desert. Doctors Without Borders estimates that by the end of 2011 there will be 500,000 people living in and around the camps, which were originally built to accommodate 90,000. (Brendan Bannon/Polaris Images)
A young Somali refugee boy and his terminally ill mother, Haretha Abdi at Dadaab refugee camp, near the border of Kenya and Somalia in the horn of Africa. (Brendan Bannon/Polaris Images)
“During a recent Al Jazeera interview, the head of a Somalia-based charity mission decried the lack of support his people were receiving. He lambasted the world, particularly Arabs and Muslims. He seemed puzzled by the fact that little support is reaching the victims even during the holiest of Muslim periods. Then he spoke of the aid arriving from Gaza. The news anchor cut him off quickly at this point, and moved on to a “related topic”: aid sent by the Qatari government.
I wondered about it myself. Could Israel-besieged Gaza really be sending aid to famine-besieged Somalia?
Indeed.
One of multiple Gaza-led charity campaigns to aid Somalia is called “From Gaza: hand in hand to save the children of Somalia”. According to Ma’an News Agency, this latest effort is led by the Arab Medical Union. “The campaign aimed to demonstrate the extent of physical cohesion between besieged Gaza and Somalia and that the Palestinian people are capable to support and stand with the Somali people,” Ma’an reported on Aug. 2. Palestinians in the West Bank are also mobilizing around help for Somalia. The doctors’ union has opened several bank accounts to accommodate donations.”
This is your “glimpse of hope” for today (L)
ما ذنبها ؟؟
Imagine: she is your grandma (ayeeyo), does she deserve this?
Please, Donate whatever you have, pray for them, and rise the awareness in your community. Let’s move and save them, they are calling on YOU to help today.
