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See below for the latest update from Joel working with Food for the Hungry.

Dear Friends,

Happy new year and other such greetings that usually begin newsletters. I apologise for my lack of regular news updates of late although I imagine that this will be a relief to many of you with concentration spans that are similar to mine. I have decided for this newsletter to change my old format (a largely forced change due to my loosing the template along with most of my email Read more here

Here is the latest news from Andy and Rose.  Download Here

And some extra info here….

If you remember, a few months ago, the local child welfare judge summoned two of our boys to see her. She has the power to take the boys out of the project and to send them home. Brazilian law prohibits orphanages, so if the boy’s life is no longer in danger she has the power to send them back to their families regardless of the family situation… i.e. the boy might have changed but many of the families just dont have the means to look after their children and so if the family hasn’t changed then the boy will slip back into his old way of life and, within a few weeks or months, his life will be in danger once again. 

Read more here

Here is the latest news letter from Joel Blacker, who is working with Food for the Hungry in Bangladesh. If you know him, you will want to read this. If you don’t know him, we need to sort that out as he is a sterling chap!

Joel Blacker News Letter

From Christian Selvaratnam,

Some of you may know I’ve been doing a little bit of running recently as part of a fitness and health drive. Whilst I’m still very very much in the beginner category I am starting to see the benefits of the exercise – I even ran in a 10 kilometer race last month!

I’ve found that having a goal to work towards helps with motivation and adds focus to the challenge. So, I’ve decided to sign up for the the York “Brass Monkeys” Half-Marathon in January next year. You can read a little more about it here – http://www.yorkknavesmireharriers.co.uk/brassmonkey.htm.

I thought this might be something others would be interested in. Do you fancy the thought of running 13.1 miles through York countryside in winter weather??? It would be great if a whole crowd of us from G2 did it together … and you can invite friends as well. Read more here