# Guardian Christmas Appeal again focuses on Katine village

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/11/28/guardian-christmas-appeal-again-focuses-katine-village/
- Published: 2008-11-28T11:27:14+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Tomorrow The Guardian and Observer newspapers will launch their annual Christmas
appeal to readers. This year, for the second year running, the appeal will benefit
[Katine](http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine), the African village which The Guardian
is tracking a three-year development project with Amref and Farm-Africa, in partnership
with Barclays.

The appeal gets underway with the first of two online auctions. Items on offer via
eBay include dinner for eight with Sir Bob Geldof at Cecconi’s restaurant, a signed,
limited edition photograph taken in Ethiopia in 1985 by Bono, and a signed Lewis
Hamilton Formula 1 replica crash helmet.

Launched just over a year ago, the Katine project had raised £615,649 by 31 October.

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