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"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the rights of all those who have nothing. Speak up and judge fairly, and defend the rights of the poor and needy."
Proverbs 31: 8 & 9
All proceeds from the McIntyre Poetry Awards will be going to The NI Children's Hospice and NIICCA - The NI International Children's Charity Appeal
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THE NI CHILDREN'S HOSPICE
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How does the Children's Hospice help? |
The children's hospice provides a respite service, support service and end of life care for special children both in the children's hospice at Horizon House and at home. Life-limited conditions include progressive illnesses such as muscular dystrophy and/or rare genetic disorders or life-threatening conditions such as cancer and heart disease. Such conditions require substantial, complex and in many cases full-time care. Many of the life-limited children will die before reaching adulthood. By providing this special care, we give the family and the full-time carer a well deserved break. Children from birth to 18 years of age are eligible for care, and like all hospice services, there is no charge for families.
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NIICCA – Light of CrimeaSupporting Mission through Humanitarian MeansWELCOME to The Northern Ireland International Children’s Charity Appeal (NIICCA), supporting mission through humanitarian initiatives and child-care programmes in Crimea, Ukraine. We work in partnership with Crimea Republic Charity Foundation “Light of Crimea”, based in Simferopol, Crimea’s capital city and made up of a team local and international believers.Crimea is as far south as you can go in Ukraine. It is one hour’s flight from Kiev, Ukraine’s capital and seat of government, twenty one hours train journey but decades away from the attention and effects of government aid and assistance. Meanwhile the people could perish but for the intervention of NGO’s. Our work began with the find of 30 abandoned babies in a run-down hospital in Crimea’s capital city, Simferopol late 2000. The babies were then all under 1 year and being fed up to 7 times daily on diluted baby formula by an skeleton staff of unpaid nurses. Our response was to assess the immediate need, then to raise whatever funds we could and send support by way humanitarian aid shipments. With wheels set in motion to continue to provide a level of care for these and future abandoned infants, several trips to the area soon revealed the greater human need and trauma of thousands of children caught in the old soviet institutional system with little or no hope of any quality of life or employment once/if they reached adult years.In 2001, NIICCA was accepted as a charity by the Inland Revenue. From the outset we have worked in conjunction with a registered charity foundation in Crimea, Light of Crimea, that receives and distributes the aid we send. With your help we can continue to be a primary sponsor in numerous one-off as well as long-term care initiatives. 224D Shore Road, Carrickfergus, Co.Antrim, BT38 8TX
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