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On Friday morning I returned to the UK after an emotional 9 days in Haiti. The situation there is tense.   Reconstruction work is underway but the vast majority of families in Port-au-Prince are still struggling without shelter, sufficient food or clean water.

Congratulations to Chris Hobbs, Chris Barker, Lisa Smith and Ben Carter for completing the Kamikaze Run this Sunday.

The two Chris' put in a strong performance coming in 28th (Barker) and 33rd (Hobbs).  Ben and Lisa were just happy to finish!

The run involved 8 gruelling miles of cross-country over steep Dorset hills, through streams and bogs and culminated in an assault course.

Sound fun?

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200 people were killed and a further 111 were injured after an oil tanker crashed and flipped over spilling petrol near the village of Sange in province of South-Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Lydia is a child from Uganda growing up facing hardship because of poverty.

Every day, across the world, children like Lydia struggle for survival.

But Lydia lives in hope.  She believes that somewhere  out there, somebody special will change her life for the better. 

You can be that person right now by donating to WER.

Whatever you can give will be used to help us get food, medical help, clothing and other supplies to starving children in Africa and other places across the world.

There was a great deal of celebration when South Africa won the rights to host the 2010 world cup.  This event was to be a coming of age for the rainbow nation and would signal that South Africa was a safe and a great place to visit and do business.

The cost of hosting the tournament has been estimated at around £6.2 billion.  In a country that spends just £8 billion a year on health this is no small investment.

Tensions in Burundi are high in the run up to the countries Presidential elections, due to take place on the 28th June.  Years of conflict mean that Burundi is one of the world's poorest countries.  There has been a fragile peace since the last of the rebel groups, the FNL, signed an agreement as recently as 2006, but a series of grenade attacks raises concerns of a return to violence.

Children at Holmewood House school have spelled success in their fundraising efforts for Haiti.  The Junior children took part in a sponsored spelling test - learning 100 words.   They were sponsored by Parents and friends and raised and amazing £3046.42.  This was split between World Emergency Relief and the MacMillan Nurses.

WER is delighted to be hosting Outside the Stadium, the 100% unofficial world cup video channel. 

The channel shows videos filmed and produced by young people from our community football programme in Paarl East, South Africa.  Throughout the tournament Outside the Stadium will feature videos about life in Paarl, the local football scene and the world cup.  There will even be a full parallel tournament! 

So if you want to know about real life and real football in South Africa visit Outside the Stadium now.

Where does milk come from?

Well we all know the answer to that.  It comes from cows of course. But what if milk didn’t come from cows?  What would be the point in raising cows then?

This might seem like a stupid question but it is precisely the one that Evariste Ndayirukiye in Ryarusera in Burundi is answering.

A big congratulations to all our marathon runners who took part last Sunday.  As it turned out the weather was not too hot which was great for the runners, less so for the spectators!

Everyone who took part did extremely well all completing the race in good times.  Hopefully all the participants are not aching too much and are recovering well.