There are over 200 million children destitute on the streets of The Third World. Every three minutes a child under the age of 5 dies of malnutrition. Incredibly, the world stands by and little is being done. The Sharpe’s Children Foundation believes
that education is the strongest world currency and the only lasting and durable weapon against child poverty and deprivation.
By establishing Sharpe’s Shelters early education centres - the first will be in Rajasthan, India - the actors of Sharpe feel they have found a unique way to make a real difference to the lives of destitute and forgotten street children. The Sharpe's Children Foundation are showing the world what can be done with very little. It begins with us, change can only begin in the moment we begin to see and feel and understand.
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To Donate £3 to The Sharpe's Children Foundation please text SHARPE or sharpe to 70303 - ( UK Only)
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Richard Sharpe and two hundred and fourteen other wonderful characters have soldiered across television screens in eighty four countries since 1992. 16 films comprise the Sharpe series, a series which Broadcast Magazine
calls “one of the Top Ten UK TV television series ever made".
While filming the Sharpe series over a seventeen year timespan at various locations in Portugal, Ukraine, Crimea,Turkey and India the actors of Sharpe witnessed many atrocities against children. While filming Sharpe’s Challenge and Sharpe’s Peril in India, actors witnessed little children living in the gutters of Jaipur and Jodpur in Rajasthan and on the streets of Kahjurho in the state of Madhya Pradesh,living in the most horrific circumstances.
Many of these children were orphaned, many abandoned but all were and remain destitute. Though they seem to smile their days away, the reality is that these children live their lives unwanted and totally without hope.
The impact of the human devastation the actors witnessed resulted in the establishment of The Sharpe’s Children Foundation. The driving force behind The Sharpe’s Children Foundation initiative is Daragh O’Malley who played Sergeant Harper in the television series and Daragh has been joined by many of the 214 actors who appeared in the series down through the years.
Just as Bernard Cornwell's creation, Richard Sharpe, rose from the gutters to realise his dream and gain high rank in the British Army, it is The Sharpe's Children Foundation's intention to give children of perhaps a lesser god the same opportunity.
To Donate £3 to The Sharpe's Children Foundation Text Sharpeto 70303 - thank you so much !
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