SCI is taking part in Live Below the Line 2013

Come join the party! Raise awareness of extreme poverty by signing up to the Live Below the Line Challenge 2013 and raise money for SCI to treat NTDs

SCI is taking part in Live Below the Line 2013!

After the success of taking part in Live Below the Line (LBL) 2012, we’ve decided to sign up again this year! Help us make LBL 2013 bigger and better!

Thanks to 35 inspirational individuals who took the LBL challenge in 2012, £20,363 was raised for SCI (www.schisto.org). These funds were used to treat over 50,000 children in Senegal for schistosomiasis and intestinal worms, protecting them from the poverty maintaining effects these diseases have for another year. Join us this year to ensure we can continue to protect these children, and many more, and give them a real chance of lifting themselves out of poverty.

LBL 2013’s official challenge days are 29 April to 3 May this year, but you can do it whenever you like between 1 March and 30 June 2013. Join us and live off just £1 per day for food for 5 days, bringing to life the direct experiences of the 1.4 billion people currently living in extreme poverty and helping to make real change. Please have a look at the Live Below the Line website (http://www.livebelowtheline.com/uk). 

Please spread the word. Be a sport and sign up and/or motivate friends and family to take part or sponsor you! It is easy to sign-up and start raising funds for SCI, https://www.livebelowtheline.com/uk-sci-imperial. When you sign up please join team Imperial College London 2013 and encourage your colleagues to sign up and join the team.

I have uploaded to the SCI website some menu ideas to help our brave supporters who are going to take the LBL 2013 challenge to plan. For those who do not feel up to taking part in the full 5 day challenge there are some alternative fundraising ideas, like hosting a ‘Dine Below the Line’ dinner party. I have uploaded a promo flier as well as a Dine Below the Line resource pack.

If you do not want to take the challenge yourself, then perhaps you would sponsor me or Professor Fenwick? We would greatly appreciate your support. Our fundraising pages are https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/alexandraweldon and https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/afenwick.  

If you have any questions ask away (a.weldon@imperial.ac.uk).  Please feel free to share this article with whomever you wish!