My mate Richard, a fanatical St Mirren Supporter and converted to a shrimper
when he moved to Essex, flew out to Zambia the day after attending the
league 2 play off final in Cardiff (what a send off!). He has not been back
to the UK since, which means he completely missed seeing both his English
and Scottish teams become champions of their respective leagues last year!
(How gutted was he!).
He does this because he's quite literally a man on a mission to make the
world a better place, and he is doing it by working for The Salvation Army
in one of the poorest areas of the world.
A few weeks back I, along with 8 other of his mates, received this e-mail:
"'Two weeks ago our ambulance broke down, resulting in the death of one
newly born baby and severe complications in another delivery case. On Friday
we were given the news that the Chikankata Hospital Ambulance is in need of
an ambulance itself as it is very ill! Basically we need a new ambulance
desperately.'
Inspired by a Danny Wallace book that I had sent him, he has challenged me
and the other eight to find 200 people each to donate a tenner towards the
new ambulance. You can read more about it here:
http://www.charliechikankata.blogspot.com/ (scroll down to the post on 5th
August)
I'd love to show Richard what a generous bunch the shrimper community are -
can we find 200 shrimpers to donate a tenner each? He's back in the UK for a
break at Christmas and will be attending the Birmingham game - it would be
great to present him with a large cheque for £2000 on the pitch!
The challenge is on - tell all your mates to "gisatenner" - they can donate
online with a credit card below:
Gisatenner
Cheers
Shrimpergarry
when he moved to Essex, flew out to Zambia the day after attending the
league 2 play off final in Cardiff (what a send off!). He has not been back
to the UK since, which means he completely missed seeing both his English
and Scottish teams become champions of their respective leagues last year!
(How gutted was he!).
He does this because he's quite literally a man on a mission to make the
world a better place, and he is doing it by working for The Salvation Army
in one of the poorest areas of the world.
A few weeks back I, along with 8 other of his mates, received this e-mail:
"'Two weeks ago our ambulance broke down, resulting in the death of one
newly born baby and severe complications in another delivery case. On Friday
we were given the news that the Chikankata Hospital Ambulance is in need of
an ambulance itself as it is very ill! Basically we need a new ambulance
desperately.'
Inspired by a Danny Wallace book that I had sent him, he has challenged me
and the other eight to find 200 people each to donate a tenner towards the
new ambulance. You can read more about it here:
http://www.charliechikankata.blogspot.com/ (scroll down to the post on 5th
August)
I'd love to show Richard what a generous bunch the shrimper community are -
can we find 200 shrimpers to donate a tenner each? He's back in the UK for a
break at Christmas and will be attending the Birmingham game - it would be
great to present him with a large cheque for £2000 on the pitch!
The challenge is on - tell all your mates to "gisatenner" - they can donate
online with a credit card below:
Gisatenner
Cheers
Shrimpergarry
