Annie Lennox Brings New Supporters To Children’s Charity
by The Daily Eye Team June 23 2014, 8:07 am Estimated Reading Time: 1 min, 7 secsWorld renowned singer songwriter Annie Lennox OBE has pledged her support for Coram, the UK’s first children’s charity, resulting in almost 600 new supporters signing the pledge wall. Annie, who is known for supporting humanitarian causes, has highlighted the importance of Coram’s work with vulnerable children in her pledge: “It’s harrowing to think that many children are born into the unimaginably difficult circumstances of poverty, abuse or abandonment in the UK, where there is an urgent and desperate need for intervention and support. “Whether it be through developing skills and emotional health, finding adoptive parents or upholding children’s rights, Coram reaches the lives of over a million children and young people every year by ‘creating a change that lasts a lifetime.’
“Bravo Coram..!!!” Read Annie’s full pledge, and the pledges of over 1000 supporters who have signed their names in support of Coram on their 275th anniversary wall. Coram is calling on all supporters to add their name and help them reach vulnerable children who feel invisible. Coram children’s charity was founded in 1739 by a man called Thomas Coram, who returned to London from abroad to be appalled by the sight of babies being left to die on the city’s streets.