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Football fans up and down the country now have an excellent opportunity to donate their shirts to help disadvantaged children in South Africa, thanks to WER’s exciting new partnership with the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy.

Launched by former English footballer, Mark Bright, the ‘One Common Goal’ campaign is raising funds and collecting football shirts to send to football-loving youngsters in the deprived Paarl East region of South Africa.

As the current economic climate continues to have a grave impact on the poorest communities around the world, WER is sending emergency relief supplies, including pharmaceuticals and dried foods, to rural HIV/AIDS clinics in Burundi.

This latest WER support to Burundi will be received by WER’s local partner organisation in Bujumbura, African Revival Ministries (ARM) Burundi, and will be distributed to rural health clinics and non-profit medical centres across the country.

WER would like to send a huge THANK YOU to all Team WER runners for their fantastic achievement in the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon on Sunday 12th October 2008. 55 runners took up the challenge of running 13.1 miles through London’s Royal Parks to raise money for WER’s life-saving work around the world.

World Emergency Relief (WER) is sending food and humanitarian aid, including clothes and blankets for the approaching winter, to Iraqi refugees in Jordan.

The goods were donated to WER and our partner agency Glasgow the Caring City (GtCC) by businesses across the UK and will be distributed to families in Jordan through local Jordanian charity IOMERD.