14 July 2011
City of London donates £25,000 to British Red Cross East Africa
Appeal
City of London donates £25,000 to British Red Cross East Africa
Appeal
The City of London Corporation has donated £25,000 to the
British Red Cross’ East Africa Food Crisis Appeal to support the
charity’s work to provide emergency relief to the area.
The donation has been approved today (Thursday 14 July) by the
City of London. The British Red Cross says that more than ten
million people in the Horn of Africa are facing severe drought,
following very poor rainfall in the region, which includes Somalia,
Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Uganda
Michael Bear, Lord Mayor of the City of London, who leads a
delegation to business centres in Africa in late August, said:
“The British Red Cross does sterling work responding every year
to global disasters, including devastating floods and earthquakes.
We are happy to offer our support, in the hope that it provides
some relief to people in East Africa.”
Roger Chadwick, Chairman of the City of London Corporation’s
Finance Committee which approved the grant, said:
“We have responded swiftly to previous appeals, such as aid for
Darfur, Southern Africa and Pakistan, and I’m sure that the British
Red Cross will put this latest donation to good use. We hope also
that it will encourage others to give, too.”
In March last year, the City Corporation donated £25,000 to the
British Red Cross’ Libya and Region Appeal.
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