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Duncan Bannatyne's charitable activities support a group of worthy causes whose
excellent work has a positive impact on the lives of people across the world.

Every penny donated is sent to chosen charities to fund their wide and varied
projects.

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OUR STORY

In 1999 Duncan saw for himself the abject poverty of Romanian street children
who have to survive by living on rubbish dumps and in sewers. Duncan was
incredibly moved by extreme conditions they deal with every day, but encouraged
by the efforts being made by UNICEF to change the children's lives. The money he
has helped raise has gone to train care workers who are helping street children
and those living in orphanages and institutions.


SOME OF THE WORTHY CAUSES WE HAVE HELPED

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NEW HOPE

He has also supported Romanian projects run by Scottish International Relief.
Here he witnessed the disgraceful conditions Romanian orphans experience in the
country's hospitals. Scottish International Relief has given these children new
hope with the opening of two hospices, one of which, Casa Bannatyne, he has
helped fund and support. The hospice has given a new home to 10 AIDS and HIV
infected children.


Duncan was there when the children moved in and the genuine joy they showed was
extremely moving. From that moment he committed himself to try and improve their
lives and give them hope of some kind of future. Scottish International Relief
also operates Mary's Meals, which Duncan also supports. Mary's Meals is an
international movement to set up school feeding projects in communities where
poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education.

Through Mary's Meals The Bannatyne Foundation feeds almost 16 thousand children
every day in Malawi.


UK AMBASSADOR FOR UNICEF



The charity is also operating in Haiti feeding children who were affected by the
major earthquake, which hit the island. Duncan was honoured with the Order of
the British Empire for his contribution to charity and he is also a UK
Ambassador for UNICEF, a Trustee of Comic Relief and President of No Smoking
Day.





OPERATION SMILE

On one of Duncan’s first trips to a Romanian orphanage in the 1990s, he met a
lovely little girl who had become deaf/blind because she’d had food trapped in
her cleft palate that had gone unnoticed. The resulting infection had eventually
caused her disability. It was so unnecessary and could have been avoided with a
simple surgery when she was a baby. This was one of the reasons Duncan was so
motivated to travel to Guadalajara, Mexico with the charity Operation Smile.
This medical charity provides free safe surgeries to children with clefts in
over 60 countries.


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