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8th March 2007 - Latest updates

We are happy to announce that we have reached our first target of £25,000!! Thanks for all your support so far and keep it coming!!

Sponsored Spinathon at Fitness Firsts across London in March
Fitness First has kindly agreed to hold sponsored Spinathons at their gyms across London. Thanks to Matt Waterton for organising this and please feel free to get involved if you are a member to help raise money for ABC and the Build Malawi project. For more information please see the Events page.

Ticket to a Million!!
We have recently joined Ticket to a Million, a website that aims to donate $1m to charity whilst at the same time making one lucky person a millionaire!!!

The aim of the site is to raise $2m by selling 1,000,000 pixels of advertising space on its website, then to divide this $2m into half - $1m will be given to someone who has registered on the site, the other $1m will be awarded to various charities. Specifically, $0.5m will go to five affiliated charities while the remaining $0.5m will be split between five other charities voted for by people who register and of which Build Malawi is one!

So to be in with a chance of winning $1,000,000 and to help raise $1,000,000 for charity all you have to do is:

- Visit www.tickettoamillion.com
- Submit your name and email address
- Select Build Malawi as your chosen charity
- Then validate your entry by responding to an email that is sent to the address you registered at

Easy! It costs nothing (yes it really is FREE!) to enter, and only takes a few seconds to register - so please give it a try, it may even make you rich!!

Also it may be of interest to people who are looking to advertise on the internet, as a website of a similar nature proved to be very successful.

Fundraising
Our newest team member Maggy Keet is bravely running a half-marathon on Sunday 11th of March to raise money for the project. Thanks to her for her support and commitment. For more information or to sponsor Maggy please visit her Justgiving page at http://www.justgiving.com/maggykeet.

Rob and Maddy are halfway to their target amount of £2,000 for the London to Paris bike ride in June! We wish them every success! For more information or to sponsor them please visit their Justgiving page at http://www.justgiving.com/robandmad.

Party @ Herbal, East London with Lake Of Stars
Lake Of Stars Festival organisers have kindly agreed to help us raise awareness for the project at their fundraising party in London on Friday 23rd of March. They know how to put on a good party so see the Events page for more info.

School Partnerships
James Allen's Girls School have made ABC their charity for the summer term and will helping to raise awareness and funds for the Build Malawi project in particular. Although they are a secondary school they have supported projects in Africa in the past and their experience and help will be invaluable - so thankyou!!

Chiddingstone Primary School are continuing their support for our cause and are doing a sponsored sleepover in aid of both ABC and Comic Relief. The children will be doing a range of activities with an African theme and Tanya will be there showing her support.

Raffle
We are organising a fantastic Raffle with many great prizes and will be selling tickets on the web and at all of our events. We will put up a list of the prizes in due course to tantalise you!

 

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