The SUZY FUND

The Suzy Fund began in 1975.

The girl in this photograph died on a rubbish dump in Ethiopia, minutes after it was taken. Parishioners in a West Yorkshire parish saw this image in a national newspaper. They named the girl Suzy, and started the SUZY FUND.

The fund is run entirely by volunteers and overheads are kept to an absolute minimum. To date, the fund has raised and distributed more than £600,000 to help children like Suzy. As little as 10p can give a child a hot meal.

You can get further details at www.suzyfund.org

In 2000, the Healys Folk Band, led by Erne Parkin, decided to give all proceeds from their concerts and sales of their CDs to the fund. In addition, proceeds from The Place for Music Folk club run by Erne in Milngavie, were also donated to Suzy. This has resulted in donations of more than £30,000 over the last 10 years. The money donated to The Suzy Fund at Erne’s funeral was sufficient to fund ‘Ernefest’ which supplied food for 1000 children each week for 12 months, a fitting legacy.

Concerts and events organised under the banner of Parkin's Place for Music, will continue to support the SUZY FUND and Healy's CDs will be on sale at these events.

**** You may be interested to know that Brian Hazell, who founded the Suzy Fund in 1975, has just been honoured with an MBE in this New Year's Honours List. The charity has raised more than £630,000 to fund a string of third world projects.

•10p provides a life changing vaccine against measles.

These diseases kill 30,000 children every day.

• 10p provides a hot meal for a child in Addis Ababa. Without our help, these children will only eat two or three times each week.

• We are part of the affluent world who consume 80%of the world’s resources.