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Event details:
Date- 6th February 2019
Time- 10.30am- 3.00pm
Venue- Farmeco Community Care Farm, Screveton.
NG13 8JL
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There is a free bus that will pick attendees from the Forest
Park and Ride at 10.am and return at 3pm from the farm.
FREE HOT FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED!
Cantact Julia Paul at Mojatu Foundation to book a place
on the bus and for catering purposes. He details are
[email protected] or ring the office on 01158457009.
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Goals, which the elimination of FGM is a key target
under Goal 5. The observance of FGM continues
to be practiced every year on February 6th and
will be greatly pursued by the UN and other social
activism parties in efforts to eliminate FGM by the
year 2030. Awareness has been rising for FGM with
constant pursuit of activism. We at Mojatu Foundation
are therefore proud to be part of this movement
with the aim to eradicate FGM in our generation!
Join us in this important work! OUR GIRLS, WOMEN
AND ENVIRONMENT MATTER! All proceeds go
to supporting survivors and our FGM project.
Remember to book your place as they are limited!
This day is a part of a global combined effort by the
UN to meet one of its “Sustainable Development
2018 Game of Rememberance,100 Years! - By Penny Cooper
Football, so many of us love the
sport, and fans from all over the
world put themselves out to
attend the games of their favourite
clubs. Yelling and cheering on the
players and patiently (sometimes
impatiently) looking on and
hoping for a goal.
The excitement generated by the
crowd watching passes from person
to person, and everyone has eyes only
for the match and the moving ball. Is it
any wonder then, that it was football
which formed the basis of a truce at
Christmas in 1914, the Western Front
in WW1. French, German and British
soldiers came out of their trenches
and passed seasonal greetings to
each other. The truce led to prisoners
being released by both forces, but
it was the football games together,
which stood out in the memories of
those fighting, a temporary ceasefire,
which unfortunately never resolved
the conflict, and it wasn’t until 1918,
when on the 11 th month, of which the
11 th day and the 11 th hour, 11-11-11,
officially became the end of WW1.
Thursday 8 November 2018 and
we are to attend the men’s football
game, English soldiers verses German
soldiers, kick off at 7 pm. We were
welcomed into the grounds of
Nottingham Forest Football Club
and entered the executive section
as guests of Sir John Peace, Lord
Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire.
This match is a tribute to the many
men and women who gave their
lives in WW1, and to whom we owe
an enormous thank you. I feel the
pride well up in me when I think
about our armed forces serving their
country and equally a great sense of
achievement at the war’s end and
the enormous debt we owe to the
millions who lost their lives,. This
match was a celebration of those
lives, a remembrance lasting 100
years to date.
The two sides playing were made up
of men from the army, British playing
in red and white and Germany
playing in White and Black. The first
half went very well for the Germans,
they scored 3 goals to our 1. The
second half saw no more goals, but
I think was a better example of play,
maybe the nerves had settled. We
sat amongst our German comrades,
who generated excitement at their
winning total naturally, and we all
managed not to end up fighting. LOL,
they were good sports and so were
we, being on the losing side.
We give thanks to Nottingham Forest
FC, Notts County FC, Nottinghamshire
County Council, Woodland Trust,
Never Such Innocence, The Royal
British Legion and the National
Football Museum for making this
football event possible, along
with local businesses and private
persons. It brought together many
organisations in celebration of
armistice and we can be proud of the
young men and women who still go
off to war and protect the borders of
this great nation. We have peace in
Europe and we have allies not just in
Europe but throughout the world. Let
us give thanks and look upon WW1 as
a distant memory of what we don’t
want to happen again.