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Project HappyChild NEWS 10th February 2001 [for ongoing updates, see Latest Site News] |
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| Hi there! This Newsletter is a few days late - many of you will have seen the publicity at the UK's largest Internet newspaper, "The Register" [with follow-up article 9/2/01] about our Surftime access being zapped by PlusNet on 1st February. Followed the next day by a major computer crash here which wiped our copy of the Project HappyChild site. I'm glad to say Plus Net has restored access and everything's up and running again now [and our site back-up restored] but we've lost a few days and with the increased traffic (over 11,000 in a single day!) and e-mails, we have our hands full here. Our thanks to everyone who's written to offer Project HappyChild alternative Internet facilities, and help of various kinds; we'll be replying to all letters received as soon as the website is up to date again. |
| There has been masses going on at the site over the last few weeks - we've added a large range of events raising funds for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital to the General Events calendar, including amongst others a Grand Charity Ball at The Royal Lancaster and a Charity Auction of signed animation sketches at Planet Hollywood, both in March, a massive sponsored Abseil in Norwich in May, live racing at Windsor in July, a Champagne Reception and Fashion Show in October and a series of concerts by schoolchildren across the UK, in November/December. Other items on the General Events calendar include a Valentine's Ball at the London Hilton and a Golf Tournament in Marbella, both in aid of the Rhys Daniels Trust. Contact details for the Rhys Daniels Trust have now been updated in the Project HappyChild Directory [1067] along with a link to their website.
Other GOSH events added to the ever-growing Sponsored Events calendar include the London Marathon, the New York Marathon and the GOSH Inca Challenge in May 2001. Both events calendars are now linked from the entry for GOSH in the Project HappyChild Directory (1016), and we've also included a link to their new website. Also in Sponsored Events, Aberlour goes "Back to the Wall" in China - walking 100 kilometres of the Great Wall from 27th October to 6th November 2001, and they have arranged White Water Rafting - sponsored event for teams or individuals - on the River Orchy on 1st April 2001. Other additions include their Golf Day at Dunblane on 14th May - teams now registering! - and on Sunday 20th May, a special Sponsored Fundraising Event as part of Aberlour's 125th Birthday Appeal. They aim to have walkers on top of each of 125 Munros (hills above 3,000ft) on the same day. |
| Supplementary resources - Three new e-mails (from the USA and Norway) have been added to the Guestbook at Solomon's Guide to The Magical World of Harry Potter. This area remains hugely popular and it's hoped that the pagebuilding of further chapter guides can start again in a couple of weeks.
Andy's Guide to Pokémon has been updated with a new page of Cheats, Tips & Shortcuts, along with more Questions and Answers and additional info for the Missingno page. This area has been overwhelmed with a mass of e-mails recently; more will be added to the Cheats pages whenever time allows, and the mirror sites will be updated shortly. We've had a number of reminders from visitors that the new free-to-print French resource should be progressing - pagebuilding was scheduled to begin again from 4th February but due to the problems of recent days has been deferred until mid-February. Sorry! - this one has been outside our control. |
| CREATIVITY: Another article by Johann Christoph Arnold, entitled "Dishonesty", has been added to the Creativity area of the site. "No matter how many times a child gets into trouble, never lose faith in him."
On a lighter note, our thanks to everyone who's been sending in jokes recently - some of the more print-able ones have now been added to the Jokes page, also part of the Creativity area. New items for this area are always welcomed. |
| SHOP - We've added some new graphics to the "Team Xtreme" page (Special Needs, in the Project HappyChild shop) showing disabled kids having fun on Nintendo® consoles with the aid of the Nintendo® interfaces and switches designed by Pathways Development Group. Inventions like these can make a lot of difference to quality of life for disabled children.
BRICKS & MORTAR: Regular visitors will know we lost a number of the site graphics to the "Love Bug" virus some while back; almost all of them were replaced soon afterwards but we're still encountering the odd one missing here and there. We've now replaced the blank disk master for our free-to-print reading system, "Bricks and Mortar". If any visitors should encounter any graphics missing elsewhere across the Project HappyChild site, an e-mail would be appreciated. |
| APPEALS & PROJECTS HELPING CHILDREN - We've had a delightful update from Betesda, in Galati, Romania, whose new day care centre for children is now completed; every day 20-30 street children drop by for a warm meal, shower, clean clothes, school, etc. Click here for pictures of the centre and the six street girls who have now moved into a rented flat; there are now a total of 32 boys living in the boys house, and the Betesda Foundation are making contact with more street children four times a week as well as being actively involved with the school in Giurgiulesti. The Foundation welcomes any help with the ongoing costs of their work, as well as their major fundraising (this time for a permanent home for the streetgirls) - click here for details - and are also seeking irrigation equipment for their farm which now has 30 pigs and cows and three hectares of land - see Resources Required.
We also heard back from Onwueyiagba Muhammed , Founder of First Step International Foundation based in the Gambia who wrote to let us know that Charitable Registration has now been achieved. " ... people and organisations read my appeal in your guest book and decided to help. In fact, we have made a lot of progress and things have started to work out just fine. Recently, a Canadian lady called me up after reading my appeal and sought to be our permanent representative in North America. She invited me and the board chairman to Canada and we went there to formally inaugurate an arm of the organisation ...." OM also said that an association of students based in Germany who wish to help Nursery school pupils in the Gambia, also saw the Guestbook appeal and have told him they will visit soon. Thanks go to the many site visitors who support the Appeals & Projects helping children which are featured on the site in Appeals and in the website Guestbook. |
| SYNDROMES: With an increasing number of e-mail enquiries coming in to the "Syndromes" area of the site, we've now included a note on the Syndromes Links Index page about the CAF on-line Directory of Rare Syndromes, along with details of using the Yahoo advanced search facility to generate specifically-relevant results for any given geographical location.
ACCELERATED LEARNING - Last but decidedly not least, the very last upload of January was Michael Tipper's February articles, which have been added to the massive Accelerated Learning resource. This month he has reviewed Tony Buzan's latest book about Multiple Intelligences called "Head First - 10 ways to tap into your natural genius". The memory training article looks at how he is learning a language (German) and the great mind is Charles Dickens. The amazing brain fact looks at patterns and once again the planets feature in a mnemonic, this one provided by a primary school in South Wales. |
| Well, that's it for this month! I feel a little like I've been "sandbagged" but things will be back to normal soon. I'd like to express my personal thanks to all who were supportive during this time of crisis for us, particularly the many people amongst the 1100 accounts severed by PlusNet who ignored their own problems and petitioned for the restoration of Surftime access for Project HappyChild. Thank you all so much.
Penny. ****************************************************************** |
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