The Research Partnership selects charity to support this Christmas

Monday 15th December 2008

This Christmas, employees at The Research Partnership have been busy collecting items for a hamper to send to Forever Angels, a charity in Tanzania whose objectives are to promote and raise awareness of abandoned or orphaned babies and support initiatives to alleviate these problems. The Research Partnership has chosen Forever Angels as its official charity in 2008 and going forward. Employees have been helping to collect essential items needed for the charity’s baby home, such as nappies, milk formula, bed sheets and antibacterial hand gel.

Forever Angels was set up in 2007 by Amy and Ben Hathaway, a British couple with extensive experience of volunteering for orphanages. They are responsible for the day-to-day running of the baby home and are supported by a board of trustees, which includes two Tanzanian business people.

The first successful project they undertook was to open the baby home in Mwanza on the shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania. This baby home provides stable, loving shelter for up to 40 orphaned and abandoned babies and infants who are severely disadvantaged. It is staffed by trained and dedicated Tanzanian carers and trainees and provides nutrition, love, health care, physical and emotional support until a child is either fostered, adopted or reunited with their family. They continue to work on other projects to help support local families to care for their children.

The Research Partnership has made a considerable financial donation to the charity on behalf of its clients and the panels of doctors who participate in their Therapy KnowlEdge syndicated studies. The company has also made a commitment to make further contributions via its customer satisfaction surveys and from other initiatives in 2009.

Mark Jeffery and Mary Assimakopoulos are joint partners of The Research Partnership. Mark explained, “Mary and I wanted to be able to support a small charity in a way that would make a big difference. As Forever Angels is seeking to improve the health of babies in Africa, it’s aims fit well with The Research Partnership, which supplies global market research to major pharmaceutical companies in order to help improve world health. We look forward to learning more about the charity and supporting its initiatives as we continue to grow our business. We both really admire what Amy and Ben have managed to achieve in such a short space of time and hope that the donation allows them help even more children in the future.” 

For more information about the charity and its aims, visit www.foreverangels.org.

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