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 Have you been awarded a place to run for the Flora London Marathon this coming April? If you are still looking for a worthy cause to donate your sponsorship money to, why not run for CINI?
If you decide to run the marathon for CINI you will be given literature to show you what your time and effort will go towards. We will also provide a hassle free, efficient means to collect your sponsorship money via the www.justgiving.com website; we will even help you with fundraising ideas and PR: to help you get the most out of the amazing challenge you are taking on!
Knowing that your help is making a practical difference to the lives of poor women and children in India will make your experience even more rewarding. Experience the exhilaration of having run 26 miles, 385 yards (42.195 km) and to have raised enough (£872) to pay the salary of a full time local nurse in India for six months, helping turn around the lives of severely malnourished children!
As well as the Flora London Marathon there are many other runs that you can do in aid of CINI’s work.
Click here for some you could choose from.
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| This Mother’s Day, why not do something more meaningful than buying another box of chocolates?
Support the Child In Need Institute’s (CINI’s) work to help poor mothers and children in India, and we will send a special gift card, and a friendship bracelet made by women in its project area, to show your mum that you understand what a difference it makes to have a loving mother. |
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Little girl outside CINI's Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre shows her mother that she is appreciated |
Many poor children in India are not so lucky, as many lose their mothers in childbirth. £7.50 is enough to train a traditional birth attendant, helping to ensure that dozens of women from poor families in India receive care during and after birth from a skilled person who is knowledgeable about hygiene and infant health. Your mum's card will explain how this support will help save women's lives.
For more information and to order this gift click here
You may like to go further and sponsor a mother in your mum's name for £10 a month for 30 months. When sponsoring a mother, in addition to the gift card and friendship bracelet, both you and your mother will be linked to a pregnant woman in need and sent photos and progress reports.
With your help the woman you are linked to will have access to nurturing and support during pregnancy, a skilled attendant to help with the birth, and help after the child is born: empowering the mother to give her child the best possible start in life. This support will give this woman and others in her community a chance to break free of the inter-generational cycle of poverty, malnutrition, and ill health.
It will be possible to email messages to the mother in India (which will be conveyed to her by our project staff), or even to visit her and her family to learn more about how she and her friends and neighbours have benefitted from your support.
For more information and to order this gift click here
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If you make http://cini-friends.com.charityhomepages.com/ your homepage and use it for your searches instead of Google, Ask.com will donate an average of 7p per search you do to the work of the Child In Need Institute (CINI) to help poor women and children in India. This will generate flexible funding for the charity at no cost to you!
If you do 25 searches a week, this will raise enough in a month to provide the food and medicines needed to nurse a severely malnourished child back to health each month.
All you need to do is go to http://cini-friends.com.charityhomepages.com/ now and then choose 'tools' then 'internet options' to make this your default home page
Please email the CINI UK team at info@cini.org.uk to let them know you have done this as they are keen to have 1,000 people helping CINI in this way by the end of the year. And it would really help if you could persuade your friends to help in this way too.
CINI UK has been selected to feature in the Good Gifts Catalogue (www.goodgifts.org). You can buy SF10 - Medical fund for street children or 6034 10 Safe Births.
The price of the gift is passed on to CINI UK and other charities in full. So, it is an excellent way of solving your gift problems, and supporting our work.
The Good Gifts Catalogue has a wedding list and wish list service, particularly suitable for special occasions like anniversaries or significant birthdays. You can use Good Gifts as in memoriam presents and keep a few in stock for unexpected birthdays or Christmas gifts.
The purchaser gets a card to give, or keep, acknowledging the gift, along with the guarantee that the gift is always wanted.
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Spread some ethical cheer in aid of CINI UK with these beautiful cards taken from original hand drawings by Bristol artist Cordelia Cembrowicz. The cards are blank inside for your own message and are printed on recycled paper and come with recycled envelopes.
Find out more about the artist at: www.cembrowicz.co.uk.
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Cost: £2 each or £9 for a pack of 10.
40p from every card will be donated to CINI UK
Click here to order by email
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If you would like your friends and family to make a donation to CINI UK rather than spending the money on unwanted presents for you this Christmas, please click here and CAF/pantspresents.org can add a simple widget to your Facebook, MySpace or other social networking page.
This Christmas why not send hassle-free, paper-free, inexpensive Christmas e-cards to the ones you love, whilst donating to mothers and children in India. For more info see: www.everyclick.com/christmas
Solicitors up and down the country are now accepting bookings for writing or updating wills for free in return for a donation to a consortium of nine of the UK’s best-loved charities. Ring 0300 0300 013 or see www.willaid.org to find the participating solicitor nearest you.
CINI UK is not one of the consortium of charities that benefit from Will Aid donations. However, we still tell our supporters about the scheme as it is a wonderful opportunity to write or update your will in return for a donation to charities mainly working in the field of international development.
We also hope that after you have made allowance for your family and friends, that you will consider leaving a gift to CINI UK, leaving a lasting legacy by helping poor families in India break free of the cycle of poverty, malnutrition and ill health.
For more info see www.willaid.org
As a baby, Gautam Lewis received care and support at CINI's Emergency Ward in Kolkata. He is now living in London, and has a photo exhibition called "Full Circle" due to run from 13th October - 19th October 2008 at the Mernier Chocolate Factory, 53 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU. The exhibition will feature the story of his early childhood, how he ended up living in London, and how he is now trying to help other disadvantaged young children in India, particularly those suffering from polio.
weblink: www.freedom-in-the-air.com
Purity Trading raised enough at its stand at this summer's Taste of London event to provide the food need to nurse 25 children at CINI's Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre back to health. The company's founder and owner, Savio Azaredo, said "Our products draw on India's traditional spice heritage, so I felt we ought to give something back to help poor families in the country." The company is planning a broader partnership with 5p from every pack of its Curry Tree brand spices sold coming to CINI UK. See www.puritytrading.com for details.
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October 2008
 Working closely with local NGO and government staff, CINI's Disaster Response Team has so far helped 1,350 of the families worst affected by the Bihar floods.
Family packs have been distributed to families with the following items: saris for women, lungis (a type of sarong) for men's use, towels, soap, detergent powder, folding mats, stainless steel mugs, stainless steel plates and mosquito nets. Having adequate clothing is an enormous comfort and source of dignity for families who have lost everything.
Having plates and cleaning materials will help ward off preventable diseases. Mosquito nets are a crucial means of cutting the chances of developing malaria.
Acknowledging the support of CINI, Saraswati Devi, aged 68 years, said, "We lost many things: relatives, livestock and the hope of life. Today, we find the support given to us by CINI is God's Gift and we see reason to revive our hopes for the future."
The bulk of the funding needed for this work has come from CINI UK supporters, CINI staff and Give India. In addition clothing has been collected in India and dispatched to the area with the help of Down2Earth. Further funding is still required as this is an ongoing situation with the flood waters not expected to fully subside for several months.
Support can be sent by clicking here to donate online or sending donations to CINI UK, Suite 631, 456-458 Strand, London, WC2R 0DZ (cheques payable to CINI UK)
The famous bangla band Chandrabindoo performed an intimate gig for just 250 people at Hampstead Town Hall at 6.30pm on Saturday 18th October in aid of the Child In Need Institute's (CINI's) work to help poor women and children in India.
The band's unique sound draws on, reggae, rock, calypso, hip-hop and Bengali folk influences.
With eight albums under their belt, the group is a household name in Kolkata, Mumbai and Dehli. |
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This impromptu performance was their London debut, and we are thrilled they did it in aid of CINI.
Time and date: 6.30pm on Saturday 18th October
Ticket price: £10 or £15
Venue: Hampstead Town Hall, 213 Haverstock Hill London NW3 4QP see map
To hear the band's music please follow this link http://www.esnips.com/_t_/chandrabindoo?q=chandrabindoo
Fasting can give you empathy for the millions facing hunger in India every day. If you get your fast sponsored in aid of work to prevent malnutrition, it can also make a practical difference to the lives of the people affected.
The recent rise in prices for staples such as rice and wheat in India have increased the number of poor families facing hunger. We have been striving to make a difference by providing nutritious food to severely malnourished children in our Emergency Ward, to the vital work of preventing malnutrition through education and awareness raising work in the community.
CINI has helped bring hope to poor families, while also building up community knowledge on good nutrition and how to prevent and treat diarrhea and other common illnesses. In combination with a lack of nutritious food, these illnesses, if they go untreated, can make it difficult for the children to absorb the food they do eat, resulting in starvation.
So join CINI UK in its third year of sponsored fasting. Raising just £50 will be enough to provide the food needed to nurse 15 severely malnourished children back to health in our emergency ward. Reach £300 and you will have raised enough to pay the salary of a health worker for six months, helping to prevent malnutrition.
The date for our sponsored fast is the 9th August. To get involved, contact karenallonby@cini.org.uk or call 020 7582 1400
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Dear Friends
 I have just spoken to Dr Chaudhuri, the Director of CINI India, who has told me that CINI is going to be involved in the relief efforts to help the families whose homes have been washed away by the flooding in Bihar. It is estimated than more than 2.7 million people have been displaced following monsoon rains of such intensity that the Kosi river has not only breached its banks but has actually changed course.
The greatest need in the refugee camps is likely to be food, and in particular there may be a need for baby foods to help maintain the strength of young children. Currently some people at the refugee camps are only getting one meal a day.
There may also be a need for some shelter materials including ground sheets taupaulins and blankets. It is likely that many people will have lost all their possessions and so will also need basic family packs with soap, kitchen utensils and kerosene stoves for cooking.
This relief effort is in urgent need of funding.
You can donate here, or by sending a cheque to CINI UK, Suite 631, 456-458 Strand, London, WC2R 0DZ.
Thanks for your support.
Anna Taylor
Director of CINI UK
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The sponsored fast team for July have now set up their online sponsorship pages. Please support their efforts by sponsoring them online by clicking on the links below. Or if you are interested in joining in the August fast, please email karenallonby@ciniuk.org for more details
Isabelle Pelly - www.justgiving.com/isabellepelly
Sophia Furber - www.justgiving.com/furberfastsforcini
Shelly Raj - www.justgiving.com/shellyraj
Rima Shah - www.justgiving.com/rimashah
Sana Usman - www.justgiving.com/sanausman
Heather Tomlinson - www.justgiving.com/heathertomlinson
After having spent several weeks at CINI's Emergency Ward and Nutrtition Rehabiltiation Centre, assisting the staff there as part of his medical elective, Dr Feroz Shah has been inspired to run the BUPA Manchester Run in aid of CINI's work to fight malnutrition. He is aiming to raise at least £300 - enough to fund the salary of a health-worker working at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre for a full six months. To show your support for his fundraising efforts, please go to www.justgiving.com/fshah and sponsor him online. To find out more about taking on your own sponsored challenge in support of CINI's work, please email info@cini.org.uk
The 8th March was International Women's Day. CINI marked the day by launching an appeal for support for its Adopt A Mother programme, which is helping save mother's lives in poor communities in India.
In most parts of India, entrenched gender inequality compounds poor women's limited access to antenatal care, medical support during child birth and adequate nutrition during pregnancy. Consequently, women are 80 times more likely to die of a maternity related cause than women in the UK, meaning that over 529,000 women fall prey to maternal mortality each year. |
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"Gender inequality is a major factor contributing to poor maternal health in India and is a huge part of the work we do. We recognize the importance of educating families about the priority that pregnant women's health should take."
Director of CINI - Dr Samir Chaudhuri |
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