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38 The Link Magazine • March 2003
Fundraising in aid of clean water

Keen Blue Peter viewers across the country have been busily organising sales of toys and games, cakes
and biscuits to raise money for Water Aid projects in Uganda and Tanzania.
At Brook Field School, Shaw a toy fair organised by the Blue Peter Girls wanted to thank all the
'the Blue Peter Girls' raised £210.92, which was added pupils and staff who had contributed, especially
to a whole school collection of £168, totalling £378.92. Mr Stowe who spent a day teaching with his hair
Organiser Cat Pinner, 10, said her friends known as dyed red and green.
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Play manager Jane White said the children had been moved by the
Blue Peter programmes showing how children in Uganda have to walk
Still sitting in that for miles to collect water which is safe to drink. "Although the response
to our posters wasn't that good, the children in the club really worked
traffic queuie'.- hard to collect toys to sell. We had a cake making session the day before
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