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Expedition to help moon bear Free Family
rescue project Fun Day
A Swindon couple will have a unique, but distressing, opportunity Saturday 11 August A 5 week introduction
to visit a bear sanctuary in China in September. 10am to 4pm, to the basic ingredients
Sarah and Dave Chil- Abbey Meads School
vers, from Peatmoor, be- Family fun, bouncy castle and of Christianity
lieve they will be the first inflatable slide, games, group at Freshbrook
from Britain to visit the events and contests, music, face Evangelical Church
sanctuary after a ten day painting, caricature drawings, Each Wednesday
trek along the Great Wall
of China to raise money and more. from 5th September
for the Animals Asia Foun- Hosted by the North Swindon to 3rd October
dation. Baptist Church with the help of Interested? Contact us
Bear Farming is a seri- young adults from American for more information on
ous issue in China, with sister church, the Calvary Baptist 01793 873050 or
more than 13,000 endan- Church in Covington, Kentucky e-mail: [email protected]
gered Moon bears cur-
rently being kept in inhu-
manely small cages, and
milked for their bile in ex-
cruciatingly painful and
unpleasant ways. Sunday Worship 10.30am
The bile is unnecessar-
ily used in medicine, for illnesses around China and actually lives in Sunday School and Creche
as insignificant as a fever, for which the Chengdu Sanctuary. Meeting at Abbey Meads
there are herbal or synthetic alter- Sarah and David are training hard Community School
natives on the market that are more for their own long march for the
effective. foundation and have set themselves
Consequently there is a bile sup- a fundraising target of £6,000.
ply surplus, so it is being added “Animals have no voice; this
unnecessarily to cosmetic products makes it even more demoralising
such as shampoo. The foundation to see them take abuse,”said Dave,
is trying to educate the Chinese explaining why bear bile farming
about the cruelty to animals in their has spurred them to take practical
country to eradicate this trade. action.
Jill Robinson, an animal lover They would gratefully welcome www.nsbc.org.uk
from Britain, began the Animals donations and sponsors to help
Asia Foundation in 1998 after a them in their fight to free bears
heartbreaking trip to a Chinese from torture. Donations can be
bear farm. She has dedicated her made at: www.justgiving.com/
life to freeing the bears of this tor- sarahanddavechilvers
ment and has opened sanctuaries www.animalsasia.org

Justice and Peace unite refugees
Torrential rain didn’t dampen the atmosphere at a get together in July
for the town’s refugees despite a last minute change of venue.
The planned barbeque at Lydiard Park for over 100 refugees was
hastily switched to a meal at St Luke’s church hall. Volunteers from the
Catholic group, Justice and Peace, and the Harbour Centre for Refugees
and Asylum Seekers taxied the families to the venue, where they
enjoyed a sociable afternoon and a Halal meal.
The town hosts refugees from at least 50 countries. The Harbour
Project, based at St Luke’s hall, provides a friendly meeting place where
people can ask for advice, use the internet or drop in for coffee and
biscuits. www.harbourproject.org.uk

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