Reckitt Benckiser Summer Ball - 10th August

Please contact me if you would like to attend the Reckitt Benckiser Summer Ball on the 10th of August. We need to sell more tickets to make this a success!

The theme is Summer Fun and it will be held in the Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Willerby, Hull. Proceeds from this event will be going to Save the Children.

We have some space in our house if anyone requires accommodation or the Ramada offers reduced rates that night! Tickets are £33 each which includes a welcome drink, four course meal and wine on the table. To entertain you there will be a top band and dj for you to dance to and photographer and caricaturist to capture the event.

If this wasn't enough to persude you, Alex, Anna and I will be putting ourselves into stocks at the end of the evening and for a small cost you can throw wet sponges at us!

What your donations are doing in Tanzania

Tanzania is the 31st worst country in the world to be born a child.

The main causes of under-5 morbidity and mortality in Tanzania include malaria, pneumonia, and neonatal causes. Almost 90% of all child deaths are due to preventable causes. Eight out of ten child deaths occur at home and of these, six in ten had no formal contact with health services. Chronic malnutrition is widespread and exacerbates children’s resilience to diseases.
Your support is enabling Save the Children to help save lives in these most desperate situations

The photograph shows Hawa Suleiman with her daughter Pilly, 15 months in Lindi district, Southern Tanzania

Hawa walked two hours to come to the clinic in Mnolela, which is the nearest to her home. She came to seek treatment for her youngest child Pilly who has been suffering from diarrhoea. There are no doctors at the clinic, just one medical officer and two nurses, so Hawa saw one of the nurses, who gave her rehydration salts for Pilly.

Hawa gave birth to four children but lost her first born to malaria when she was one year old.

‘My first baby died when she was about one year old, she had fever and her body was very hot. She was bitten by mosquitoes, which is why I think she became sick’


Malaria is the number one killer of children under five in Tanzania.

Thanks to the Save 100,000 lives programme, Save the Children is working to ensure that pregnant women, and children in particular, use mosquito nets. We also train medical staff in malaria prevention and control using a new drug. The current treatment is ineffective because malaria parasites have developed resistance. The need is great and we are grateful for your support to continue to train and offer support in order to save more children’s lives.