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April 2008 Latest News from Luxor

After years of set backs and disappointments our four residential buildings are almost ready for occupation. The clinic/administration building is also nearing completion; foundations have been laid for the clubhouse and foundations dug for the perimeter wall. At the moment there is too much work going on to allow the children to move into their houses. As soon as the heavy machinery has been moved, hopefully in the next few weeks, we will be able to erect temporary fencing around the construction areas. It is at this point that we will be able to move.
I thank you all for your support and patience throughout this period.

Lorna Ford - Project Manager Luxor

April 2008 Sunshine UK

There has been a magnificent response to the SunShine Village Appeal. Since the Appeal went out last June, the UK Charity has been able to send the £40,000 funding needed to build the clinic/admin building and a further £50,832 for the club house/education unit, thanks to your fundraising efforts and donations.

The Directors hope to send a full update for sponsors and supporters in June, bringing you lots more in-depth news from the Project in Luxor .We will keep you informed when the new houses are ready for the children to move in. In the meantime with prices rocketing in Egypt, (as you may have seen on the news recently) the living expenses have almost doubled at the SunShine Home. Here in the UK we are doing all we can to help the project in Luxor by encouraging more child sponsorship.
Once again thank you to all our sponsors and supporters from everyone at SunShine Egypt and UK -
Your amazing generosity and support, is greatly appreciated.

Visiting hours at the Ahmed Esmet Street premises will be 9.30am to 16.30pm (closed Fridays)The new visiting hours at the Television street premises will be 14.00 pm to 18.00 pm Monday to Thursday .Closed Fridays. Sunday 9.30am to 16.30pm

If you would like to receive a SunShine Newsletter by post, please send your name and address to Eve Lawton at sunshineproject@btconnect.com

October 2008 - The Everest Base Camp Trek

SunShine supporter Graham Webb has entered into a Charity Challenge fundraising event by taking part in The Everest Base Camp Trek in Nepal on the 3rd of October 2008 , this is run by the Charity Challenge Company and will help to raise vital funds for the SunShine children in Luxor.This is a fantastic way to raise funds for the project and we hope to raise as much support as possible for Graham . The charity are hoping that more people will take a look at the Charity Challenge web site . There are some very exciting challenges on offer in various parts of the World. www.charitychallenge.com

Please help SunShine by sponsoring Graham following the link to his fundraising page. http://www.justgiving.com/grahamw . Why not take a look at some of the challenges on offer and see how you too can raise money for your favorite charity ! Good luck with your fundraising Graham and thank you from all the SunShine team here in the UK and in Luxor.

September 2008 - Wedding gift Donations

Peter Berry and Kym Winter have asked all their guests who are attending their Wedding in September to donate to SunShine rather than to provide them with presents and gifts. They visited the Project in Luxor in January and felt that it was a much better use of money than for them to receive presents . This is a very generous and kindly thought of Peter and Kym.

The happy couple have created a fundraising page on the justgiving site http://www.justgiving.com/winterberry that makes it easy for people to donate on line . Just follow the link if you wish to offer Peter and Kym a gift for SunShine to celebrate their happy event.

September 2008 - Fundraising Night-Out

On Saturday 20th September 2008 at Loughton Working Men's Club Station Road, Loughton Essex.
From 8pm until late with The Revamps (Ultimate Party Band) and Loughton Belly dancers.
In aid of SUNSHINE PROJECT, LUXOR & MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT
Tickets £10.00 Nibbles Included. Telephone 07811 979867

May 2008 Hafla

On Saturday 31 May the 'Hafla' (Egyptian Party Night) held at the Land Rover Social Club in Solihull raised approx £2,250, thank you to everyone who attended and supported the event.

May 2008 - Joshua Enkin and the BUPA Great Manchester Run

Once again Joshua Enkin has taken-on and completed the Bupa Great Manchester Run to raise money for SunShine.

This year Josh raised an incredible £2,718.00

A big "Thank You" to Josh and thanks to all who sponsored and supported him.

Please keep your sponsorship coming we need it more than ever.!
If you are doing an event or need to hand out some info to your friends, please Contact Eve for our new hot off the press Sunshine leaflets.

There are currently 83 children registered into the care of the project in Luxor. Please help us to secure their future by supporting the project, browse through our web site and see how your sponsorship and donations make all the difference.

Many thanks for your kind and generous support.