Proceeds from ebay sale of brussel sprout go to Christian charity
-08/01/06
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Proceeds from ebay sale of brussel sprout go to Christian charity
-08/01/06
The proceeds from the sale of a brussel sprout, auctioned on Ebay, have gone to a well-known Christian charity.
The unwanted Christmas dinner item fetched a staggering £99.50 by the time bids closed last week.
It has now been formally announced that the seller of this leftover sprout from Christmas is donating the proceeds from his innovative sale to the UK relief and development agency,
Tearfund.
Andrew Henderson (42) from Darlington had the sprout idea over Christmas dinner with the family.
“As a family we support Tearfund and I thought that it would be good to see if a leftover sprout could help Tearfund,” said Andrew.
“They are working in very practical ways to help those who have very little, those who certainly have nothing left over.”
Andrew kept the sprout frozen until the end of the auction and has now sent it in a polystyrene box to the buyer, by registered post.
He says he was unable to arrange refrigerated transport – although that didn’t stop one Ebay response from a driver at a refrigerated delivery company offering assistance!
“We applaud Andrew for his very thoughtful initiative,” said Jonathan Spencer at Tearfund. “There are so many needy people who struggle to get one adequate meal a day. For the many families and communities that Tearfund work with in some of the world’s poorest countries, there’s little hope of anything more. We will make sure the money goes to help people in extreme poverty.”
The sale of the brussel sprout comes after a Christmas which saw many of the big aid agencies such as Christian Aid, Oxfam and World Vision, offer their own unusual gifts such as donkeys, camels, goats and sheep to be sent to the developing world.
You can visit the World Vision alternative gift selection here.
Click here to visit the Oxfam Unwrapped gift collection
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Proceeds from ebay sale of brussel sprout go to Christian charity
-08/01/06
The proceeds from the sale of a brussel sprout, auctioned on Ebay, have gone to a well-known Christian charity.
The unwanted Christmas dinner item fetched a staggering £99.50 by the time bids closed last week.
It has now been formally announced that the seller of this leftover sprout from Christmas is donating the proceeds from his innovative sale to the UK relief and development agency,
Tearfund.
Andrew Henderson (42) from Darlington had the sprout idea over Christmas dinner with the family.
“As a family we support Tearfund and I thought that it would be good to see if a leftover sprout could help Tearfund,” said Andrew.
“They are working in very practical ways to help those who have very little, those who certainly have nothing left over.”
Andrew kept the sprout frozen until the end of the auction and has now sent it in a polystyrene box to the buyer, by registered post.
He says he was unable to arrange refrigerated transport – although that didn’t stop one Ebay response from a driver at a refrigerated delivery company offering assistance!
“We applaud Andrew for his very thoughtful initiative,” said Jonathan Spencer at Tearfund. “There are so many needy people who struggle to get one adequate meal a day. For the many families and communities that Tearfund work with in some of the world’s poorest countries, there’s little hope of anything more. We will make sure the money goes to help people in extreme poverty.”
The sale of the brussel sprout comes after a Christmas which saw many of the big aid agencies such as Christian Aid, Oxfam and World Vision, offer their own unusual gifts such as donkeys, camels, goats and sheep to be sent to the developing world.
You can visit the World Vision alternative gift selection here.
Click here to visit the Oxfam Unwrapped gift collection
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