CHILDREN from North Yorkshire went without some of their favourite things yesterday - and all in the name of charity.
An Oxfam representative visited Richmond School recently to outline the plight of street children in Tanzania.
And the talk inspired more than 30 pupils to join the Give It Up project, run across the region over 24 hours.
Some chose to forego sweets - others declared a day-long fast. Some chose to stop talking and, for them, school became complicated as they could only communicate in note form.
Catherine Wann decided to give up an hour of her free time to do homework, while friends Claire McBride, Lucy Ward, Rachel Crabbe and Alexandra Tait planned a night drinking Coke and watching scary films to help them complete 24 hours without sleep
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