NOW that increasing numbers of relief flights are getting through in southern Sudan, Save the Children, along with the other 15 members of the Disasters Emergency Committee, are now in a position to work flat-out to bring emergency relief to the 350,000 affected people in the stricken area.

In order to help finance this desperate push to save lies, they have launched an emergency appeal.

The scale of the relief effort is immense. Save the Children is helping families who have already been made homeless by war or the food shortages, and also those who are most at risk of becoming homeless.

Please give whatever you can to help. Most of the big relief charities, including Cafod and Oxfam, are members of the DEC and will gratefully accept your donations for southern Sudan.

If you would like to donate specifically to Save the Children's relief work there, you can forward your cheque made out to Save the Children Fund to me (on the reverse of the cheque please write S Sudan).

BRIAN STOCKDALE (Press Officer, Blackburn branch, Save the Children), 72 Horden View, Blackburn BB2 5DH.

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