Written by Sue Mumford, Chair of Hospice Ethiopia UK and Jamie Mumford (Trustee)
Once again, we have rounded up our fundraising year with a very successful Big Give Christmas Challenge. As a result, palliative care in Ethiopia will be over £9,000 better off, which means that more patients like Subira (not her real name) can be cared for by medics trained in palliative care. Subira suffered from severe pain secondary to a carcinoma affecting her eye until it was controlled by medicines and advice provided by expert nurses from Hospice Ethiopia.
So, who are we? We’re a small UK registered charity called Hospice Ethiopia UK. We don’t employ anyone, but with our volunteers we raise funds to promote and support palliative care in Ethiopia. The Big Give Christmas Challenge is an annual fundraising event established by the Reed Foundation which is open to UK registered charities. The event occurs in the first week of December each year. The attraction to donors is that each donatio