Help children and families in need - on Butterfly Day

Barnardos is looking for volunteers to organise fundraising events for Butterfly Day on Thursday 3 March. The leading children's charity hopes groups of people - friends, work colleagues, club members, college mates and others - will hang the Barnardos 'banner' over fund-raising activities and events to help Kiwi families and children in need. The appeal is supported by a hard-hitting television commercial (sponsored by Shell) themed with positive intervention for those children most at risk.

Those able to help can contact: David McCullough, Barnardos Appeal Coordinator Telephone: 0800 00 49 50, or email: appeals.coordinator@barnardos.org.nz.

Those wishing to contribute to Barnardos can:

• log on to http://www.barnardos.org.nz/ and donate online

• call into any branch of The National Bank, at any Barnardos office

• mail donations to Freepost Authority 176, Barnardos National Office,

• P O Box 6434, Wellington

• telephone 0900 4 0900 for a $20 pledge

For more details about Barnardos and Appeal Week contact: Penny Gaylor, Barnardos Communications Manager Email: penny.gaylor@barnardos.org.nz http://www.barnardos.org.nz/