Q: What’s the link between a new tree in Market Street, Stourbridge and Mango trees in Senegal?

A: Stourbridge MP Linda Waltho plants a tree helped by the Brownies at our ceremony at the end of April.

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Please join Stourbridge Christian Aid supporters on Saturday April 28th from 10 am – 12 noon in St Thomas’s garden opposite Waitrose in Market Street. Our MP, Linda Waltho, will plant a tree to remind us of the stories of women like Mairam Djiby Diallo from Senegal. You will also be celebrating a birthday, enjoying a coffee morning, hearing Charlotte Marshall from Christian Aid talking about its work and also…. possibly experiencing a “musical interlude”! Do join the celebration!

Mairam Djiby Diallo lives in northern Senegal an area which is becoming desert due to climate change. But Christian Aids’ partner USE runs tree planting seminars there and Mairam has learnt how to grow mango saplings which will give her a better diet and also fruit to sell. In addition the trees will help regenerate the area. For Mairam the mango saplings mean a whole new life.

The annual Christian Aid Street Collection is 50 years old this year. Please support the tree planting on April 28th which is in part a celebration of those 50 years and an inspiration for us to go on collecting!

Christian Aid Week runs from May 13th – 19th in 2007 and the key message is “Growing a Future”. On average each Christian Aid collector raises £33.50--- enough money to plant more than 50 mango saplings in northern Senegal!

Could you also help with the street collection from your church this year? Please contact your church “organiser” for Christian Aid Week.