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Update on Andrew
Sorry for not updating you on Andrew - it was a function of using Facebook for daily updates and forgetting other communications media!

For those not in the know, Andrew became ill at the end of the May but, like many in his family, would not stop work. Eventually we insisted he visit a doctor we know and she immediately hospitalised him and started treating him for malaria. When his fever didn't subside and other symptoms were observed, a hemorrhagic virus was suspected and an emergency evacuation was requested. An air ambulance was ordered but when Lassa Fever was mentioned, emergency bells rang all over UK and Africa with the consequence that the request for evacuation took nearly a week! When Andrew was finally brought home, he was actually clear of any infection but subsequent tests confirmed that he had indeed been suffering from Lassa Fever. He had lost 23k in weight and had little memory of the 'early days' of his admittance.

Andrew now appears to have made a full recovery and is working hard to recapture the 23k he lost! He will now carry Lassa Fever antibodies so he will not catch it again - but it is very doubtful if he will ever put himself in a position to do so!

We are grateful to God for the way in which the medical team at Evangel Hospital were able to, quite literally, save Andrew's life.

What's going on here?

And we don't mean the lady in the background having a cuppa!

Once you think you know, use the link to find out ...

2010 Fun Runs ... 27 March in Sheffield, 10 April in Wrexham, 26 June in Reeth
How did these three events go? More here

Online back-up offer for our friends

TASTE has started using an amazing online back-up service to keep all our data safe. It cost us £24.95, which works out at less than 7p per day! We were so impressed that we've 'done a deal' so that you can use the product as well ... and we get a little commission. We both win! Have a look at TASTE online back-up.

Use this link to get our CEO's tweets.

Have you seen the TASTE cookbook?

One of our enthusiastic supporters gathered her friends together to come up with this cookbook. Costing just £5, it makes a great little gift for Christmas or to thank a friend for a favour.

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Helping rural pastors ...
When we work in rural communities, we usually partner with the WASCOM (Water & Sanitation Committee). That's where we meet local leaders and pastors. There can often be 5 or 6 churches in a rural community and many of the pastors have not enjoyed the privilege of bible college training. To help them, one of our Trustees, Adamu Maga, has offered to run workshops on biblical exegesis (critical analysis). This will teach them how to analyse scripture so that they can understand it and teach it more effectively. We'll let you know how it goes........

We are planning to help a community in Langtang ...
TASTE is seeking to help a community in Langtang LGA, who are in a desperate condition. In the rainy season, water is stored in mini-dams, which is shared with domestic and farm animals. In the dry season, women and children walk up to 7k per day to fetch water. 99% of the homes have no toilets ...... to find out how we are helping this community, look at our Langtang case study.

We have a long term project to purchase land build an office complex ...
We will keep you up-to-date with developments on our new office page.

Join thousands of people who've discovered how Cleversquirrel can get you money back on your pensions, investments, life insurance and healthcare policies, for free. Then do something clever and give some or all of it back to TASTE! Find out how it works at www.cleversquirrel.com/moneyback but remember who told you!

The Recycle Challenge - have you got the bottle?

Many of us are so fed-up with 1p & 5p coins that we leave them out of our purses or pockets and they end up all over the house. Some people even throw them away! Now you can keep all your 'shrapnel' in one place - in the TASTE water bottle, ideally suited to hold hundreds of unwanted small coins. Once full, you can either bank the money and send us a cheque or you can call us and we'll arrange for one of our supporters to come round and collect the coins so that we can bank them.

You can take part in the coin Recycling Challenge by downloading a label that will fit an Oasis bottle

or, if you are a Danish supporter, you can download a Danish label.

Do you see our newsletters?

TASTE tries to keep its supporters up to date with regular newsletters.

Meanwhile, you can browse some of the back-numbers here. They are in pdf format so to be able to make sense of them, you'll need a pdf reader like Adobe Acrobat. You can download the reader free by clicking on this link - download Acrobat

We've stripped out any pictures from the earlier versions to make them quicker to load for those readers still using dial-up.

As you can see, we've been remiss at keeping this up-to-date, but we'll be doing our best from now on!

To read our back-numbers, just click the one that interests you:

August 2009

March 2010

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