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margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"><b>Mission Appeal <o:p> </o:p> </b></span></p> <p class="MsoHeading8" style="mso-pagination:none;page-break-after:avoid; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"><b>2007/8</b><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoHeading8" style="mso-pagination:none;page-break-after:avoid; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">  <span style="mso-ignore: vglayout; position: absolute; z-index: 1; left: 9; top: 146; width: 469px; height: 278px"><img src="2007-81.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_s1026" width="469" height="278"></span><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoHeading8" style="mso-pagination:none;page-break-after:avoid; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoHeading8" style="mso-pagination:none;page-break-after:avoid; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoHeading8" style="mso-pagination:none;page-break-after:avoid; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoHeading8" style="mso-pagination:none;page-break-after:avoid; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoHeading8" style="mso-pagination:none;page-break-after:avoid; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoHeading8" style="mso-pagination:none;page-break-after:avoid; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoHeading8" style="mso-pagination:none;page-break-after:avoid; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoHeading8" style="mso-pagination:none;page-break-after:avoid; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoHeading8" style="mso-pagination:none;page-break-after:avoid; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> </span><span style="language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"><b>Scholarships for children</b><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;text-align:center;text-align: center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:bold;language: EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">in Salesian Schools in Africa</span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:bold;language:EN;mso-ansi-language: EN"><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:blue;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">Dear Salesian Past Pupils, family and friends,<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:blue;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">Over the past 5 years, thanks to your generosity, we have provided water and electricity to schools, helped children who had lost their parents to HIV/AIDS, and saved 20,000 children from death from malaria, all in Liberia.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:blue;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">For this year's Appeal, we want to give personal scholarships to cover tuition and in some cases also boarding fees to 90 needy children and students in Salesian schools in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:blue;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">Costs per child range from £80 per annum tuition fee in a primary school in Liberia, to £350 per student annual boarding fees in the secondary Technical School in Nigeria. We would receive individual reports on the academic performance of students during their scholarship.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:blue;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">Any donation would be welcome. But could you, or your family and friends donate the annual fee for one of these young people to receive a year's education? Our target is to raise the £13,500 needed for scholarships by March 2008.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:blue;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">Please give your donation to Past Pupil Associations in Battersea, Blaisdon, Cowley, Farnborough or Shrigley, or make out cheques to "Salesians of Don Bosco UK" and send to </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:bold;language:EN;mso-ansi-language: EN">- </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes; font-size: 14.0pt; color: blue; font-weight: bold; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes; font-size: 14.0pt; color: blue; font-weight: bold; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:bold;language:EN;mso-ansi-language: EN"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:bold;language:EN;mso-ansi-language: EN">'Scholarships 2007/8'</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue; language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; color: blue; language: EN; mso-ansi-language: EN"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue; language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">c/o National Treasurer<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:blue;language:EN-GB;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">Forest Rose Gardens<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:blue;language:EN-GB;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">Oakley Green Road, Oakley Green,<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:blue;language:EN-GB;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">Windsor, SL4 4PZ <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-weight:bold; language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">Yours in Don Bosco, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:bold;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> <o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:bold;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">Patrick</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> </span><span style="font-weight:bold;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN">Morrissey,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-weight:bold;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"> National President.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;text-decoration:underline;text-underline: single;language:EN;mso-ansi-language:EN"><b>Reg. 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