Citizenship For my Citizenship coursework I will be raising money for the Asian earthquake appeal by doing a sponsored fast. I aim to raise as much money as possible for the Asian earthquake appeal.

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For my Citizenship coursework I will be raising money for the Asian earthquake appeal by doing a sponsored fast. I aim to raise as much money as possible for the Asian earthquake appeal. I will be working along side a friend of mine; Louis Baxter. By working with Louis I feel the fast will be easier, as I will have someone to share the difficulties of the fast with, and we will be able to help each other through it. I know Louis from my form at school, this makes it easy for us to converse and organise the activity. The only difficulty that working with Louis poses, is that being without food for a day may make us both very stressed, which could lead to us arguing and becoming annoyed with each other.

During the planning stage we discussed various different activities that we could do. One such activity was to put on an after school football training session for primary school children in order to give them an enjoyable after school club as this was something that both me and Louis enjoyed while we were at primary school. We decided against this though, as we felt that we could do something that is focused on helping those that need it most. While we were discussing what activity to do, the Asian earthquake took place. The earthquake measured 7.6 on the Richter scale and decimated parts of northern Pakistan and northern India. The casualty level was astounding with over 86,000 dieing, 100,000 injured and 3.5 million left homeless (My source for this information is the British Red Cross website). We felt that doing something to help some of those people would be a worthwhile activity as the need for emergency aid is huge. By raising the money for such a needy cause this gives the activity a greater sense of purpose because I know it will be helping people who really need it, rather than just for the sake of my Citizenship coursework.

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After establishing a worthy cause for the piece of coursework we set about finding a way to raise money. We discussed many things, including sponsored runs, sponsored silences and a sponsored raffle. All these ideas were feasible but we eventually decided on a sponsored fast. We came to this decision because we felt it was very topical, by fasting we were experiencing what it is like every single day for those who have lost everything due to the earthquake. At the same time it is the Islamic period known as Ramadan where Muslims fast in order to strengthen family ...

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