The money you raise for Sport Relief is spent by Comic Relief to help people living unimaginably tough lives, both here in the UK and across the world's poorest countries.
For Sport Relief 2010, we want to highlight three of the many issues your cash will help to tackle.
These are Street and Working Children, Malaria and Local Projects in the UK.
There are over 100 million children struggling to survive on city streets world-wide. They live in grinding poverty with no-one to care for them and are at constant risk of abuse.
Your cash can provide a safe place for these children to sleep, to get nutritious meals and to receive the support they need to cope with what they’ve experienced on the streets.
There are also 218 million children in the world who are forced to work to scrape a living, often in extremely dangerous conditions. That’s around one child in every seven. Your cash can help them to work more safely and give them back their childhood.
Vitally, for both street and working children, your money can provide them with the education they desperately need to escape the poverty they face.
These children live dangerous and very tough lives - but thanks to Sport Relief cash, they can have a real chance of a much brighter future.
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Street and Working Children
One in five people in the UK live in poverty. Many more face disadvantage and discrimination.
That’s why half the money raised through Sport Relief supports vulnerable people right here at home.
Whether it’s children with learning disabilities who feel excluded from local activities, families living in areas with very few opportunities to escape the poverty they face, or isolated older people living incredibly lonely lives – Sport Relief cash can help them all to overcome the major problems they face.
With unemployment levels on the rise and some families finding it tougher than ever to make ends meet, the cash you raise will be hard at work in communities right across the UK.
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Local UK Projects
Around 40% of the population of the world are at risk from malaria.
Malaria causes up to 3 million deaths every year, the majority of them in children under 5.
A child in Africa dies from malaria every 30 seconds. That's over 1 million lives lost a year - even though it is both preventable and treatable.
Sport Relief cash will help make that statistic a thing of the past by providing simple but crucial ways to fight the disease; like malaria nets and information on how best to use them, and also rapid testing kits so those who do become infected can get the help they need quickly.
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Malaria
Neil "rowed" to the challenge!
Neil Walbran, 42, from Manchester raised an amazing £55 when he rowed 10k for Sport Relief. We "Neil" before him for his fantastic efforts! That cash could pay for a bicycle ambulance to transport pregnant women to hospital in Tanzania, giving mother and baby a better chance of surviving.
£50
Helen's "high-rise" to the challenge!
Don't try this at home! Helen decided to rise really high for her challenge - she abseiled 130 feet down a building for Sport Relief, raising over £180! That money could pay to run a helpline for six hours which supports women living with domestic violence, so they have somewhere to turn for help.
£100
The Spencers "roamed" to the challenge!
The Spencer family hit the road together and walked 6 miles in the Forest of Dean for Sport Relief. They forgot their sore feet when they raised a fantastic £253! That money could pay for five sewing machines for women living in poverty in Uganda, so they can earn an income and feed their families.
£250
