A special auction
was held in aid of the

DEC Asia Quake Appeal
(Disasters Emergency Committee)
Registered Charity No: 1062638


Click the photograph to view the BBC appeal video

£50 was raised

Bronze Decade Ty Beanie Baby
with CHERISH DEC-AID sweater
designed, knitted and embroidered by Sue Owen
('Boglin's Knitwear')

with additional CHERISH DEC-AID ribbon, ear tag
and neck tag

"As many as 30,000 people are feared dead and at least 42,000 have been injured
when a severe earthquake hit areas of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan early on 8 October.

"The epicentre of the quake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale,
was some 95 kilometres north of Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad.
Several villages are known to have been completely destroyed,
and countless others have been severely damaged."
(British Red Cross website)

"The 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck close to Muzaffarabad
in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Saturday morning
has caused widespread devastation.

"Relief operations are under way
to help tens of thousands of injured survivors
and an estimated two million people left homeless.
Poor weather has caused delays as has the remote mountainous terrain."
(BBC News website)
Picture from the BBC news website

Bronze Decade wears a sweater knitted in black and fluffy gold with sparkly bronze and gold to complement his fur

The front design has 'DEC-AID'. (This is a play on the name DECADE using the initials of the charity DEC with the word AID)

Tiny matching glass beads and sequins are sewn onto the sweater.

On the back the sweater has the word DECADE knitted in gold and bronze.

Decade wears the special CHERISH DEC-AID ear tag showing multi-coloured hands reaching out across a globe. This version of the tag is in sunset colours.

Decade also wears a CHERISH DEC-AID leather ear tag printed in metallic rainbow colours especially for the CHERISH DEC-AID appeal. It was first used for the Tsunami Earthquake Appeal.

A card will be included with Decade stating that he was purchased in aid of the CHERISH DEC-AID Tsunami Appeal

This Beanie is one of a kind as the sweater design will not be repeated
*Please note that this special edition bear is not authorised by Ty Inc and has been produced by CHERISH specifically to raise funds for the DEC Tsunami Appeal

This 'DEC-AID DECADE' Beanie comes with a lovely chair (donated by Beanie Tenjishitu) with a decorative black metal back and legs & a cane seat. An awareness DEC-AID ribbon is attached to the chair.

ALL proceeds from this auction will be donated to the DEC Tsunami Earthquake Appeal

Disasters Emergency Committee includes the following charities as its member agencies:

Tear Fund
Oxfam
British Red Cross
Save the Children
Christian Aid
Help the Aged
Merlin
Concern
Care
Cafod
Action Aid
World Vision

As the Asia Quake Appeal was formally launched on television tonight,
pledges have already hit £5 million, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has announced.

Doantions can also be made via the DEC website

www.dec.org.uk

via the donations phone line – 0870 60 60 900

and by cheques to

PO Box 999
London
EC3A 3AA