Guest post from Jo
Today sees another landmark for the fundraising with our 50th donation. Made by my university friend Mo. Thanks Mo!
We're
hoping to raise a bit of money with a gig that a friend here in
Birmingham is setting up. I had told her a little about what we were
doing and she mailed me a while ago to ask if she could help. Her exact
words were 'is there anything somebody like me could do?' She is a
25-year old who has just graduated with a degree in sound engineering
and knows a lot of people on the music scene so I suggested she might organise a gig.
Within a week she'd booked a
venue and confirmed three great acts. She's waiting on a headline act
and possibly even looking for a DJ to make it a late-nighter. We should
be able to sell tickets to over 100 people at £5 a time, raising over
£500.
While I'm not yet over the hill, it has been quite some
time since I was 25 and it is really nice to see someone this age
getting involved. I'm also looking to a good night out as the bands do
sound good. The gig will be on Friday August 17th at the Station in
Kings Heath, Birmingham.
Meanwhile, people are streaming out of Syria's largest city, Aleppo. Around 200,000 have already left for refugee camps over the border and to seek sanctuary in other parts of Syria. The BBC's Ian Pannell reported under fire from Aleppo last night; his footage showed another child killed by shrapnel, his bloodied body laid out on a gurney. Next to him on another bed was his younger brother, a boy called Mohammed who had been peppered with shrapnel and was screaming in pain as his wounds were cleaned as best they could be in the makeshift clinic. I can't imagine that Mohammend won't need antibiotics to stop his wounds going sceptic. But he may not get them, simply because drugs aren't available in many places. Even though he didn't die instantly from the attack that killed his brother, his long term recovery without drugs to fight infection can't be certain.
By donating on the JustGiving page we've set up, your money goes direct to the charity Hand in Hand for Syria which buys urgently needed medical supplies and gets them to where people are being terribly injured on the ground. If you can, please do take a look and enter the raffle:
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