Chester school girl cooks up fundraising success

08 November 2013

A young girl from the Queen’s Lower School in Chester has been busy cooking up fundraising success with a charity cake sale at her school on 5 November. She raised a respectable £47 for the UK charity Farm Africa which is working to beat hunger across eastern Africa.

10-year-old Madeline decided to roll out this baking challenge after being inspired by her father, Commercial Director at Anglo Beef Production (ABP) Andrew Cracknell, who has also gone above and beyond to raise money for Farm Africa.

In 2012 Andrew climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and this year he also completed a gruelling 145km trek across the Tanzania Highlands along with 12 other senior executives from the UK food industry, contributing to the staggering sum of £463,000 raised for Farm Africa’s ‘Food for Good’ initiative. Last year, four of Andrew Cracknell’s colleagues at ABP also climbed Mount Toubkal in Morocco to raise money for Farm Africa.

But this time is was Madeline’s chance to demonstrate her commitment to tackling the global issue of hunger. Roping in the help of her mother, she spent hours in the kitchen baking and decorating ahead of the main event.

Asked why it was important for her to do this cake sale, Madeline said:

“I did a cake sale because my mummy is always telling me that it’s bad to waste food when some people don’t have any. So I decided to sell cakes to help Farm Africa raise money and to give farmers the chance to make their own food. I enjoyed decorating the cakes and licking the bowl. But it was a good feeling when I collected all the money in the box and felt how heavy it was.”

The support from Madeline will go towards important funds that Farm Africa will use to train farmers in how to grow and produce more food and increase their harvest yields.

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Images are available on request.

Farm Africa press office:

Laura Oakley, 020 7067 1252 / laurao@farmafrica.org  

Notes to Editor:

About Farm Africa

Farm Africa supports farmers living at subsistence level, constantly at risk of crop failure, to build food and income security so that they can grow a better and reliable future for their families.

By focusing on ‘climate smart’ agricultural and forestry techniques, building market links and adding value to production, Farm Africa unleashes the entrepreneurial abilities of the farmers and rural communities they work with.

This is the time to turn challenge into opportunity for African farmers. Farm Africa believes passionately that smallholders can and will play a key role in achieving rural prosperity in Africa.

To help more farmers beat hunger for good please visit www.farmafrica.org

About Food for Good

Food for Good is a Farm Africa initiative that is bringing together the food and hospitality industry to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: hunger. You can find out more about Food for Good here: www.farmafrica.org/foodforgood