OUR CHRISTMAS
CHALLENGE HAS BEGUN - WILL YOU HELP US PLEASE?
We are very excited to
announce that Our Annual Christmas Challenge begins today.
The fundraiser is made possible by a very generous couple
who, amazingly, have pledged to match every £ raised during
December up to a total of £5,000.
If you
are new to the Christmas Challenge you can read all about it
here. Simply put, it is the biggest event of the year
and a crucial part of our funding. We always need our
Challenge to be a success but yet again we are facing a new
challenge. Much of our winter income arises from generous
visitors to Mango House and Fundraisers in Goa. After two
whole holiday seasons with hardly a visitor we were very
much looking forward to seeing tourists return this winter.
Unfortunately, problems obtaining visas have led to many
cancellations which in turn led to TUI, the only charter
company flying to Goa, cancelling many of their flights.
Once again we will be hit hard by the loss of visitors, just
at a time when we really thought things had turned a corner.
Once again we have set an
ambitious target for the Christmas Challenge. Our first
target is to raise £5,000. If we do so, that sum will be
matched and we will receive another £5,000. But we need to
go further. In total we aim to raise at least a further
£2,000. This won't include our regular donations but it will
include all other donations, grants and fundraising. We know
this really is a challenge and that many people are
themselves facing many pressures of their own this winter.
But if you can help us please do add Mango Tree to your
Christmas List and make a donation. Please don't think that
what you could give wouldn't matter. It will make a
difference and it does matter. You really can make a
difference and we hope that if you can, you will.
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There are many ways to make a
donation as follows
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