Appeals
Title | Appeal by | Location | Problem | Solution |
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'Nothing can Prepare You' | Ant and Dec | Kenya | Poor hygiene and waste disposal | £90 builds a toilet cubicle that reduces the spread of disease. |
'Net Danger' | Ewan McGregor | UK | Internet child grooming | £20 can keep a child safe. |
'14 In One Room' | Ant and Dec | Kenya | Malnutrition | £60 gives a Kenyan child food for a month. |
'Care for the Carers' | ? | UK | 11 year old girl cares full-time for both of her disabled parents | £15 can give her a day out |
'Preventable and Curable' | Davina McCall | Tanzania | Malaria is killing children due to lack of medication and trained nurses | 60p pays for medication to save a life. |
'Safety Net' | Davina McCall | Tanzania | Disease spreading by parasites | £2.50 buys a mosquito net which can prevent fatal infections |
'Families Reunited' | Fearne Cotton | UK | Teenagers who have run away from home getting into trouble | Comic Relief can keep them safe. |
'A Kind of Miracle' | Billy Connolly | Somaliland | Comic Relief has helped provide medical supplies and an ambulance. | |
'Why?' | Annie Lennox | Africa | Report about those who have been saved and those less fortunate. | |
'Life Line' | Davina McCall | UK | Victims of Domestic violence | With money, Comic Relief can help. |
'Child in Danger' | ? | Tanzania | Child malnutrition | £38 can buy six months food for a child. |
'Darfur' | Michael Palin | Darfur, Western Sudan | Genocide and victims of rape | £15 helps rape victims. |
'Lifesaving Care' | Billy Connolly | Cabrera | AIDS sufferers deny illness and treatment to save face | Money supports community hospitals who take away the social stigmata. |
'Child by Child' | ? | Tanzania | A child named Grey is suffering from Malaria | Comic Relief has halved the death rate of people suffering from the same condition. |
'Slavery In The UK' | Emma Thompson | UK | A girl who left her own country in search of a new life, ended up a sex slave in a UK brothel | Comic Relief gave the girl a new life. |
Read more about this topic: Red Nose Day 2007
Famous quotes containing the word appeals:
“We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.”
—Cyril Connolly (19031974)
“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions.”
—Flannery OConnor (19251964)
“The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.”
—Winston Churchill (18741965)