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WELCOME TO THIS MONTH’S
ISSUE
Hi there!
Welcome to the second issue
of My Community. We
wanted to help you make the
most of your summer in this
issue so have told you about
the latest events, given you
some tips on relaxing and if
your kids are on their
holidays, we’ve shown you
how to make the most of your
time with them. Hope you
enjoy your summer!
E-mail:
your.community@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 01354 669 958
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How You Can Help
• Renovate the one run-down
clinic of Kroo Bay (this work
has already started) You can be a part of this
exciting new project and
• Provide the clinic with medi-
THIS ISSUE: cines which will be free to you can see exactly how
the public your help can improve Kroo
Things To Do This • Provide the clinic with Bay.
August - 3 equipment such as beds for
ladies to comfortably give Save the Children has an
How To Have Fun With birth interactive website where
Your Kids - For Free! - 4 • Train health care workers you can donate online and
for the clinic watch how your donation is
Green Living - 5 • Train Blue Flag volunteers being spent.
to recognise and treat ill-
You - How To Relax- 6 nesses associated with the Write to the children, their
floods and poor living condi- families and the nurses
Your Health - tions from the clinic and they will
Miracle Foods - 8 • Talk to parents about the write back!
importance of mosquito
Kiddies’ Corner - 10 nets, vaccinations and rehy- Log onto
www.savethechildren.org.uk
dration salts
EDM 569 - 12 /kroobay to find out more or
• Educate the public about
to become a part of the
their rights to a good health
Readers’ Tips - 14 project!
service
• Help the people of Kroo Bay
Charity of the Month - 16
to build strong river banks to
keep out the floods (this
work has already started)
• Work with the people of
Kroo Bay to persuade the
government to
• prevent people dumping
their rubbish into the river
• Support the government to
abolish health care fees
• Work with the government
so they can carry on the Photographs taken by Anna
work when STC have left Kari

Charity of the Month:
Save The Children: The Kroo Bay
Project
The Kroo Bay project is one
of the largest projects Save
the Children is currently
working on. ‘This is Kroo bay!’
is an online interactive
website into a slum in Sierra
Leone. The project was
launched in February as part
of their biggest ever
campaign to save children’s
lives.
Kroo Bay slum is based on
the outskirts of the capital
city, Freetown, in Sierra
Leone on the banks of the
Crocodile River. It is the
toughest place in the world to
be a child with only one in
every four children making it
to see their fifth birthday.
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Up the hills of the bank of
Crocodile River, families living
in downtown of Freetown
regularly dump their rubbish
into the river. This then
washes down into Kroo Bay
and, during the 6 months of
rain every year, floods into
the houses in the slum
spreading disease and
claiming children’s lives. With
little else they can use, the
people of Kroo Bay will often
use this rubbish; such as
cars, cans and bottles to
make their houses. Due to
the poverty of Kroo Bay, there
is no electricity, no running
water and only two toilets to
be shared between 6,000
people.
The people of Kroo Bay want
their lives to improve and for
their children to stop dying so
they came to Save the
Children with a plan. With the
help of public donations,
Save The Children is planning
to help the people of Kroo
Bay in the following ways:
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FOR THE KIDS… FOR EVERYONE…
‘Little Monsters’ - Littleport Country Show
Peterborough Museum and This takes place at the end of
Art Gallery August at Littleport, near Ely.
With the theme of monsters, Stalls, crafts, ferret racing and
your little ones can partake in classic cars and motorbikes
arts and crafts, follow trails will be on display.
and see costumed characters
at this lively event. This takes
Guided Walks With
places every weekday Peterborough Museum and
between 27th July—28th Art Gallery
August from 10.30am - A number of walks with a
12.30pm. costumed guide are taking
place at Peterborough
Ely Cathedral Events For Museum. Tickets are sold at
Kids £5 for adults and £3 for
This free event takes place concessions. Walks include;
between 10am - 12pm on the Historic Walk - 1st, 8th, 15th,
following days. Activities 22nd, 29th August
include brass rubbing, story Tudor and Stuart Walk - 2nd
telling, arts and crafts and a August
trail for £1. Takes place in Ghost Walk - 4th, 11th, 18th,
August on the 3rd, 6th, 10th, 25th August
13th, 17th, 20th, 24th and Inns and Taverns - 6th
27th. August
Medieval - 9th August
If you would like an event
you have organised to be
mentioned on this page,
please contact us at
your.community@yahoo.co.uk
or call us on 01354 669 958
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How To..
Have fun with your kids for free!
We want our kids to have a
great spring break but don’t
want to shell out a fortune
during the credit crunch -
well, never fear, it’s easier
than you think! Here’s some
ideas to get you started!
Go to the park (not original
but they do love it!)
Go to the seaside
Bake cookies or a cake to-
gether
Paint together
Make up a story together
Have a nature scavenger
hunt (have a list of things
they need to find such as
pine cone, dock leaf etc and
the first one to find them all
wins)
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HOW MUCH WOULD YOUR
LIFE IMPROVE WITH MORE
CONFIDENCE?
Set up a treasure hunt with
clues
Good confidence is key to every
Have a picnic! success in life, but many of us don’t
have enough of it.
Go to a museum or gallery
Watch a DVD and make
popcorn for it
Have a water fight in the
garden
Play rounders or cricket are offering a three week
confidence building course for just
Go for a bike ride £30 per person.
Plan and perform a play for
other family members or To take advantage of this offer,
friends contact Marc James at
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 We’ve all heard the theory
that once the bumblebee
Get rid of those brown stains dies, it will take just
from cups and mugs by another four years before
putting toothpaste on them! humans die. And we’re all
aware that the bumblebee is
Use bread to pick up now an endangered species!
fragments of broken glass! So we thought what better
JOAN STEVEN’S time to give them a helping
To get rid of ink stains, spray BOOKS hand, than the summer?
a lot of ultra-hold hairspray on
the stain and wash as normal! Here’s some tips to stop the
humble bumble from taking a
To get rid of ants in the tumble!
summer, use cinnamon!
Sounds crazy, but it does Plant plenty of traditional
work; they can’t stand it! English nectar flowers in your
garden. One cause of the
To get crayon stains off of decline in bee numbers is
your walls, spray WD40 onto loss of wild flowers. Some
the area and then wash with good flowers to choose from
soap and water! are knapweed, lady's
OUT OF PRINT BOOKS bedstraw, meadow buttercup,
LITERATURE, ART, cowslip, oxeye daisy, black
HISTORY AND MORE medic, field scabious,
selfheal, wild parsnip, wild
TEL: 01354 696 874 marjoram, and yarrow.
3 HIGH STREET Alternatively, some good
CHATTERIS herbs to choose from are
PE16 6BE rosemary, thyme, sage, basil,
sweet marjoram, chives,
RING THE SHOP BELL FOR lovage, lemon balm, parsley,
ATTENTION borage and mint.
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Reduce your carbon footprint!
One of the problems for bees
is believed to be climate
change. The internet is full of
ways you can limit your
carbon footprint!
Join Buglife - the only UK
organisation dedicated to
bugs!
Create areas of loose soil
and rough vegetation on
banks for bees to nest in.
Don’t pull out all your weeds!
Many are useful to bees as
well as other insects and
over-tidy countryside is
thought to be another reason
for the decline in bees.
Log onto the Buglife website
to find out how to make your
own bee hotel!
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 You can find out whether your
You: MP has signed the EDM by
logging onto http://
How To Relax edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/
EDMDetails.aspx?
ED-
With children, a job, friends it could be the morning or MID=37603&SESSION=899
and family, we often feel that midday. Do your biggest or If your MP hasn’t signed after
we barely have time to most dreaded tasks at this you’ve written to them, ask
ourselves! However, time out time as you’ll be more likely to them again!
for ourselves is essential if we get them finished.
want to remain effective in all - Reward yourself after big If you want to encourage
other areas of our life. Time jobs you hate doing. This will them even further, let them
management is part of being keep your motivation up and know you will be voting in the
able to relax as an awful lot of at least when you’re doing the next election!
stress is caused by our task you can look forward to
internal ‘to do’ list. Here’s your reward! Animals are still tested on for
some tips to help you manage - Do one thing at a time. It’s cosmetics and cleaning
your time and have more tempting to try to multi task to products when there are 600
relaxation time save time but this will usually ingredients that are known to
get you flustered and means be safe and don’t need to be
- Learn to say ‘no’ and don't nothing will be done that’s of tested. Although testing
always try to people-please good quality. You can’t be cosmetics on animals is now
- Write a ‘To Do’ list everyday expected to do too much; if illegal throughout Europe, for
and list in order of this is the case some of your many companies, it is done
priority. You will feel like you activities will need to be abroad and then the product
are achieving things as you stopped completely. is exported to the UK. Find
tick them off and won’t need - Try to have a daily routine; out about Voice’s campaign
to worry about forgetting this will make things easier to to stop this by logging onto
anything. do and you won’t need to speakfortheanimals.webs.com
- Keep a diary or calendar for keep going back to a list as and searching under
important dates so you won’t you will know what to do ‘projects’.
need to worry about forgetting automatically; it will be much
any and can see at a glance quicker. Similarly do the
whether you are available for same with a weekly routine or
appointments. use a rota.
- Work out the part of your - Don’t let yourself burn
day you feel most motivated; out! Look out for the warning

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Animal testing has been a
controversial issue for years.
Although nobody likes the
idea of it, it has long been
accepted as an effective way
of finding cures for many
illnesses.
Recently, however, an Early
Day Motion has been
proposed that may cause the
Government to take a closer
look into the effectiveness of
animal testing. EDM 569 is
currently being signed by
MPs for The Safety Of
Medicines (Evaluation) Bill
2009. This Bill will call for an
investigation into whether
animal testing of new drugs
can successfully predict
human safety.
This could mean more
effective alternatives to
animal testing and could
create groundbreaking
changes in medical testing as
we know it. There is a lot of
evidence to suggest animal
testing isn’t as effective as we
have always been led to
believe.
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Did you know that;
• More than 1 million Britons
are hospitalised due to ad-
verse drug reactions every
year (this costs the NHS £2
billion)?
• There is not yet an ani-
mal:human ration when it
comes to drugs tested on
animals?
• It has been possible to cure
rats and mice of cancer
since the 1960s but be-
cause their bodies are so
different to ours, it hasn’t
helped us to find a cure for
cancer in people?
• Your taxes pay for animal
testing when there could be
more effective methods
available?
If you want to help this
investigation take place,
please contact your MP and
ask them to sign EDM 569
The Safety Of Medicines
(Evaluation) Bill 2009. Find
out who your MP is by logging
onto www.writetothem.com
signs of stress and aromatherapy candles,
immediately let yourself rest meditate or have a massage.
no matter how much you
have to do. If you reach burn If you need to relax in
out, you have too many stressful situations such as
demands and it’s time to say meetings, interviews or
no and pass on the presentations, aromatherapy
responsibility. Warning signs oils are a good way to do this!
of too much work and stress Oils such as lavender, ylang
are forgetting words for items, ylang, frankincense and
breaking down into tears and Juniperberry are all relaxing
not knowing why, being too essential oils; simply add a
tired or not being able to few drops to a hanky and sniff
sleep, stomach cramps or to calm your nerves. These
being sick. can be bought from health
shops or over the internet.
Don’t let yourself burn
out! Look out for the
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THE FOUR FOOD MUST-HAVES FOR
YOUR HEALTH
Onions—Good For Your
Heart
All members of the onion
family; garlic, shallots, leeks,
spring onions and chives
contain flavanoids and allium
compounds which help to
fight cancer. They also help
to reduce cholestrol and
clotting of the blood which
helps reduce blood
pressure. The risk of heart
disease and strokes can be
reduced by eating
onions. Eat them raw to
really benefit from their good
properties.
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Lemons,
oranges, tangerines,
mandarins etc are all
very high in
antioxidants,
flavanoids and
potassium which helps
to regulate blood
pressure.
Cabbages - Good For Your
Colon
Broccoli, cauliflower and
Brussels sprouts are all types
of cabbage which are high in
insoluble fibre, helping to
reduce the risk of colon
cancer. They also contain
plenty of antioxidants and
isothiocyanates which
counteract cancer causing
properties. Also rich in iron,
vitamin C and beta-carotene,
these are great miracle foods.
Jokes
What kind of hair do oceans
have ?
Wavy !
What did the sea say to the
Little Mermaid?
Nothing, it just waved!
What do you call a fish with
no eyes?
A fsh
What did one ghost say to
another?
Do you believe in people?
"I heard you missed school
yesterday."
"Not a bit."
Q. Where do you find a one
legged dog?
A. Where you left it.
Why did the stoplight turn
red?
Wouldn't you if you had to
change in the middle of the
street??
Interesting facts
DID YOU KNOW?...
A
tortoise can live up to 140
years old.
The average person falls
asleep in seven minutes.
The human brain is 80%
water.
There are no clocks in Las
Vegas casinos
Henry V111 is said to have
been responsible for the
beheadings of 73,000 people
A woodpecker can peck
twenty times a second.
Send us in your poems, jokes,
facts or puzzles and if they’re
really good we’ll publish them
in next month’s magazine!
E-mail your talent to us at
your.community@yahoo.co.uk
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Which is the odd one out and contain plenty of
H O I D A G R H C antioxidants. Cranberries and
why?
I A E A Y F F P R blueberries are known to be
1. mouse, cat, dog, frog good for women; they help to
C E T T S G I U E prevent cystitis, too many
2. tiger, polar bear,
E D S S Y B G P E antelope, sealion proteins in urine and ease
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P F S O A E H P N oranges, tangerines,
4. smell, hear, see, smile
O D U F U N T I R mandarins etc are all very
high in antioxidants,
P E N G H J S E J flavanoids and potassium
S F R I E N D S N which helps to regulate blood
pressure.
FRIENDS
FUN
smile - the rest are senses
HATS
rest are natural resources. 4.
HOLIDAYS
are predators. 3. brick - the
ICE POPS
mals. 2. antelope - the rest
SLUSH PUPPIES
1. frog—the rest are mam-
SUN
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SUNSCREEN
ence between the numbers
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WATER FIGHTS
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