Menu for hope 2007

UPDATED - please read on... 

Please, please, please, regular readers - do me a favour...

Go along to http://www.chezpim.com/blogs/2007/12/menu-for-hope-4.html and find out all about this year's Menu for Hope.  You have from today until the 21st December 2007 to make a donation and enter the raffle for some really splendid foodie prizes - I'm not going to go into them all here, go along to the link above to find out more - they really are fantastic prizes, believe me.

By donating, you'll be sponsoring the WFP's School Feeding Programme - surely a great cause.

 I'm hoping to donate a bottle of one of my favourite English wines (but typically missed the deadline), so you never know, you might even get a prize from me!

Please go and donate!
Richard

Update:  Let me tell you more about this...

Last year, the Menu For Hope campaign raised nearly $61,000 to help the UN Food Programme to feed the poor and needy.  This year, we will provide funds for a specific project in Lesotho - a model program in local procurement - buying food locally to support local farmers and the local economy.  Instead of shipping surplus corn across the ocean, the WFP is buying directly from local subsistent farmers who practice conservation farming methods in Lesotho to feed the children there.

We feed the kids, keep them in school, and support their parents and community farming.  This sustainable approach to aid is something we believe in and strongly support.

All you have to do is to go along to http://www.chezpim.com/blogs/2007/12/menu-for-hope-4.html select the prize you wish to go for and donate $10 per 'ticket' at First Giving.  It's as simple as that.  Please go ahead and do it! 

If you'd like to enter the draw for my bottle of Chapel Down, the ticket code is UK37.

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