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About Elizabeth’s Legacy of Hope and our work

The Trustees of Elizabeth’s Legacy of Hope have – sadly – decided that it is time for the charity to come to an end; however, our work continues with our partnerships in Africa and India. Please do continue to care for the children if you can, and please do encourage others to do so. The need for the vital care we have provided, with your kindness, for almost twelve years now is greater than ever; we can go on making the difficult lives of many child amputees happier, if we keep giving.
Thank you so very much for your kindness, support, and empathy for child amputees.

Please find attched the article with photographs, which you are welcome to circulate. Finally, to support the children in Africa, please go to: www.stewardship.org.uk/partners/20330999 (please put in the ‘any details or reference box’ that you would like your money to help child amputees in Sierra Leone and / or Liberia. Thank you, and for our Indian children, please pay into HEAL’S UK account: Account name is: ‘Heal’, sort code: 05-06-67, account number: 46295170, putting ‘ELoH’s child amputees’ in the reference. HEAL have also suggested a sponsorship scheme – they ask for a commitment of around £400 per year for each child amputee. We hope that some schools, societies, and companies will choose to join to do this; if you would like more information, please contact uktreasurer@healcharity.co.uk. World Hope International’s website is: worldhope.org.

With love, warmest wishes and very much thanks,
Victoria Bacon, Trustee, Manager and Co-Founder with Sarah Hope, Trustee and Manager of Elizabeth’s Legacy of Hope

Ps. For those of you who do not have one already, and would like to buy our fundraising poetry book Elizabeth’s Poetry of Hope, this is still available on Amazon; the bank account is remaining opening and funds raised will continue to be given, equally, to our two partnerships. Thank you again …

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elizabeths-Poetry-Hope-Bacon/dp/139991068X

There are 32 million amputees worldwide. 95% do not have prosthetics.
Only one in ten will go to schools.

ELoH provides life-changing support for children who have lost their limbs through war, accidents, and lack of access to medical care. Victoria, on the left, was only five when a wall collapsed on her leg in Liberia, forcing it to be amputated and leaving her isolated. Thanks to ELoH’s support, Victoria is now being fitted with a new prosthetic leg, attends school with her friends, and is hopeful about her future. Through the generosity of our supporters in the UK, ELoH provides new limbs, surgery, education, and advocacy for the world’s most vulnerable amputees. We believe all child amputees deserve to live a happy and healthy life. Your help can bring us closer to making this happen.

BUY ‘ELIZABETH’S POETRY OF HOPE’

We are very excited indeed to announce the publication of ‘Elizabeth’s Poetry of Hope’ – an anthology telling the story of Elizabeth’s Legacy of Hope in poetry and prose; the poems have all been especially written by published and unpublished poets – and the children themselves from each of the countries we work in. This was generously printed by Clays Printing in Bungay and special thanks to Patron Ian Whybrow for all he did to help bring this together.

This special book is just £10; available on Amazon. Proceeds to ELoH (of course!). You need never be stuck for a present again!

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Thank you Recycled Weasel!

The Recycled Weasel shop has recently raised over £50, with sales of Christmas baubles and Elizabeth’s Poetry of Hope books. Thank you very much to Michelle and Paul for your wonderful on-going support. The Recycled Weasel sells ethically sourced and recycled gifts, household items and clothes – in Victoria Bacon’s words (ELoH trustee) “It is a lovely, special, unusual, fascinating and glorious emporium, and you will never leave empty handed!

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Thank you Henry

Well done to our wonderful Young Ambassador Henry, who spent his Christmas holidays selling goods to raise vital funds for the charity, collecting £151.

News from Liberia

Please read our recent report by our project worker Jacob, which tells how very important our work is to our amputees; firstly enabling them to walk, but also in lots of other vital ways – which Jacob explains. We are very grateful to him, and to his team, for caring so much – as we are able to enable him to do, because of your generosity. Thank you!

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Ian Whybrow – Poetry with Legs

Please help Ian support the ELOH with his Poetry with Legs Marathon

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Meet Pollyanna Hope, the star of ‘Beautiful Movement’ – Toyota UK Magazine

“We are very proud to share this video with you of Pollyanna Hope, not only one of our four ‘Young Ambassadors’ but also the inspiration, with her grand-mother Elizabeth, of Elizabeth’s Legacy of Hope. Pollyanna is very fortunate to have a special ‘ballet leg’ enabling her to dance which she not only loves, but as you will see, she does beautifully.” To find out more about Pollyanna’s progress, please also read the interview.” > Pollyanna Story

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Congratulations to Joanna Lumley

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WONDERFUL DEVOTED PATRON JOANNA LUMLEY OBE FOR BEING MADE A DAME IN THE QUEEN’S 2021 NEW YEAR’S HONOURS

The Flycatcher – an important story about corruption in Sierra Leone, proceeds to Elizabeth’s Legacy of Hope

The Flycatcher is the fictional story of an African boy, killed at a vast palm oil plantation in Sierra Leone. No-one knows his name, where he has come from, or how he came to work on the estate … as the mystery surrounding these distressing circumstances are investigated, revelations about corruption at the heart of government are revealed. This is Christine Cubitt’s first novel; she is generously donating 50% of the profits from sales to ELoH. Thank you so very much. Christine has a doctorate based on research of the international peacebuilding mission in Sierra Leone; her work has been commissioned by the World Bank – her work on African governance has also taken her to Liberia, Senegal, Rwanda, Tanzania and Mozambique. Her move to fiction is inspired by the lives of the people she has met on her travels.

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THANK YOU to Sapphire Hope and the Ladies of the University of Bristol Ladies Lacrosse 1st Team

THANK YOU to Sapphire Hope and the Ladies of the University of Bristol Ladies Lacrosse 1st Team – who raised over £570 for ELoH at a charity match against Cardiff University, on 30th November. Sapphire, daughter of ELoH co-founder Sarah Hope, said they all had a wonderful time (and Bristol won – just!)

Bungay Christmas Baubles

THANK YOU to the kindness of people in Bungay for buying our special (made in India) Christmas baubles – £220 so far – more to follow!
Image Credit: Harry Read