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Home / Tips & ideas / Seasonal / Postcard from Tanzania for Sport Relief

Postcard from Tanzania for Sport Relief

March 7, 2014 by Gretta Schifano 4 Comments

Team Honk postcard from Tanzania for Sport Relief

Team Honk postcard from Tanzania for Sport Relief

To celebrate International Women’s Day the fabulous and inspirational Team Honk bloggers Tanya Barrow, Annie Spratt and Penny Alexander are in Tanzania. They’re finding out how donations made to Sport Relief last year have supported female entrepreneurs and helped create lasting change for women, their families and communities and beyond.

Team Honk is about bloggers raising money and awareness for Comic Relief and Sport Relief. Last month I took part in the London section of the Team Honk relay from Land’s End to John o’Groats – as of now we’ve raised £21,903 and the relay hasn’t finished yet. Some of the money raised by Comic Relief and Sport Relief last year has gone to support the Gatsby Trust Tanzania in its work to provide education, support and training to women entrepreneurs. So, why support women and why women in Tanzania, you may ask? Well, Comic Relief says that 70% of the world’s poorest people are women and Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world. So that’s why.

Today Annie sent me this postcard of Lucy to share here. Annie met Lucy in Tanzania. Annie says: ‘Through mentoring and training the Gatsby Trust gave Lucy the confidence to develop her business and to network after moving from the countryside to the city. She is an inspirational creative who brought out so many beautiful, imaginative handcrafted items to show us. More than that she is a teacher and looks forward to expanding her business by training other women who want to start up craft and textile businesses.’

If you’d like to help women like Lucy, here’s what you could do:

TWEET: If you have five minutes you could retweet, share and support any updates you see with the #lastingchange hashtag.

DONATE: You could help create #lastingchange by sponsoring the  #teamhonkrelay for Sport Relief

GET INVOLVED: You could sign up for your local Sport Relief event here.

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Categories: Seasonal
Tags: charity, International Women's Day, Sport Relief, Tanzania, Team Honk

About Gretta Schifano

I'm a freelance journalist and blogger specialising in family travel with teenagers, trips when parents manage to travel without their kids, and 50+ travel. I also write about vegetarian travel, parenting teenagers, adoption, SEN, ADHD and anxiety. My work's been published by the Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, National Geographic Traveller, Lonely Planet and others. I've lived and worked in Italy and Spain and am now based in rural south-east England with my husband, adoptive and birth kids and our dog. I previously worked as a social action radio producer for the BBC.

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  1. Nell@PigeonPairandMe says

    March 10, 2014 at 8:03 am

    It’s great that Team Honk were able to go across and see the real difference donations can make to people’s lives.
    Nell@PigeonPairandMe recently posted…International Women’s Day: #lastingchangeMy Profile

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  2. Mummy Barrow says

    March 8, 2014 at 8:32 am

    Thank you for sharing Lucy’s story. She was just so talented!! It was incredible to see her array of crafts.
    Mummy Barrow recently posted…#IWD2014My Profile

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  3. Mammasaurus says

    March 8, 2014 at 8:07 am

    Thanks Gretta for sharing this. Lucy has been able to take in an orphan from her wider family because of the money she’s been able to earn from her business, proof positive that the money raised really does create lasting change x
    Mammasaurus recently posted…International Women’s Day 2014, Photos of 6 inspiring womenMy Profile

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    • Gretta Schifano says

      March 8, 2014 at 10:33 am

      That’s fantastic to hear!

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