CRY Jersey auction a great success
Isle News, 30 September 2009 – CRY Jersey’s well attended annual charity auction was held on Friday, 18th September at St Helier this year at St Helier Town Hall, led by auctioneer, Tommy A’Court, raising over £4,100. This year funds will support the ‘Home of Hope’ children’s home and day centre in Albania. Many of the children supported were living on the streets, or in shanty type housing. CRY are providing a loving home and educational and medical facilities for these children – mostly Roma gipsy children, who as a minority group are excluded in many ways and live in extreme poverty. Thanks to the Town Hall, our photographer, Jane Allchin’s organizing team, the generous donors and bidders for the Lots and the sponsors, including, Carey Olsen, Bag It, Zand Benevolent and image.
Lots included stunning artwork by Zoe Allchin, Le Quennevais School Student and Tiffany Khajeh-Noori (21 Months); a tour of Ron Hickman’s house; and a ride in the V16 Cadillac built for Maharajah of Tikari.
CRY – Care & Relief for the Young – are a local Christian charity that aims to “rescue and restore young lives broken by poverty, oppression and abuse”.
CRY currently support 29 projects in 15 different countries globally. These include day centres, night shelters and children’s homes in Eastern Europe, medical clinics in India, maternity clinics in Cambodia, HIV/Aids education in South Africa, farming projects in Armenia and Zimbabwe, as well as education and children’s homes in Brazil and the Philippines.
For more information please contact Michael Khajeh-Noori on 07700 723853 or Jane Allchin, CRY Jersey’s Administrator and head of the auction organizing committee on T. 747367 or ring the Cry shop on T. 618497.
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