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Support Project Brazil | June 2011
Author: Drive
13.05.2011
Live and direct – a personal message from Ben Fender, founder and director of Drive
Dear friends,
As you may know, I’ve been involved in raising money for Cancer Research UK for some years now. This year I decided it was time to do something a little bit different. So I’m going to be taking part in ‘Project Brazil’.
I’m writing to ask for your support.
On June 11th, I’ll be travelling to rural Brazil where I will be working hard to restore and extend a remote community school. The project has been developed in partnership with the local population and will give children and adults the chance to continue to be educated amidst their families and communities rather than having to move to the city.
The aim of the project is to allow this rural community to develop by encouraging those with talent and drive to stay and help build up the region in a positive way.
Travel to and from Brazil is personally funded by me. The team here at Drive productions will be supporting me as much as possible from thousands of miles away, and will hopefully be keeping those interested updated in blog form (as far as that’s possible).
The team taking part in Project Brazil are all asking for sponsorship. Funds raised will go towards building materials for the school, but in the main, to Cancer Research UK and The Dallaglio Foundation.
I will be working alongside the entrepreneurial Steve Hayes, Chairman of The Dallaglio Foundation and initiator of the project. As long-standing suppliers to Cancer Research UK, Drive has worked on numerous high profile events in the charity’s busy fundraising calendar for the past five years, producing events such as ‘Emeralds & Ivy’ and ‘Sound & Vision’ for Cancer Research UK and ’8Rocks’ for the Dallaglio Foundation itself.
You can find out more about Project Brazil here on the Drive website.
However big or small, any donation makes a difference so if you can please donate here:
http://www.justgiving.com/Benedick-Hammond
Thank you so much – wish me luck!