Welcome to our new newsletter_jan! I hope this makes reading our updates a little easy and you can click on the links you are most interested in! We have had an exciting start to the year and look forward to your continued support and involvement.
Best wishes,
The Magic Bus Team
January to April 2005
Events - Run
for the bus…! Mumbai Marathon January 16th This year's marathon was a huge success for Magic Bus in terms
of our supporters who ran with us, from all over the world and
in terms of funds raised. Ha Chan from Bloomberg flew in from
Hong Kong for the race and was the highest pledge raiser in
the marathon and generously chose Magic Bus to support! Magic Bus won best costume …
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Programme - A New Partnership with Sports Authority of India On 15th January, Matthew Spacie met with Shri
Sunil Dutt, Minister, Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of
India. In addition to supporting Magic Bus's endeavors, he congratulated us on our admirable service to deprived children in our society. We will always remain grateful to Shri Dutt Sa'ab for his support and are deeply saddened by his sudden and untimely demise. We grieve his loss...
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Research - UNICEF
Global Sport for Development Committee Matthew flew to New York in January for an
exciting meeting with academics and people from around the world
working in the field of sport development. Magic Bus was able
to put across our experiences of working with at-risk children
in a challenging urban environment...
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Sports - Interzonal
Football Tournament: 30 April The Challenger Community Programme has been going from strength to strength and the football programme reached new levels of excitement as the zonal and interzonal tournaments took place in February and April. Over 400 children from Dharavi, Cuffe Parade and Reay Road competed in the tournament ...
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UK UK lends its support with volunteers and fund raising initiatives and the sale of a painting at Sotheby's New York...
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