FROM THE FIELD
On Friday 2 October, Sara Sullivan, a solicitor from
Chandlers Ford in Eastleigh, will become one of the 2,400 people from around the UK to participate in Anthony Gormley’s One and Other project. The project, which began on 6 July
2009, involves members of the public spending an hour each alone on the empty fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. Sara, 39, applied in July but never expected to be chosen. During
her hour, she will be knitting a ‘plinth scarf’ to raise money for ActionAid, a charity her family have supported for many years. Sara said: “As a family, we have supported
ActionAid since my sister went to visit a project in Kenya in the 1980s and following this, my parents decided to sponsor a child. After my Dad died in 2000, my husband and I decided to begin
sponsoring a child in India and a few years later, another in Malawi. “As a mother of two, I am very conscious of how lucky my children are that they do not have to go bed hungry
or suffer from a lack of medical care or education and I wanted to use my time on the plinth to help those less fortunate.”The scarf Sara will knit whilst she is on the plinth will
consist of sixty rows of seventeen stitches, representing the seventeen children that will die of poverty every minute of the sixty minutes she is up there.Sara said: “Knitting has
always been an obsession of mine- I find it very relaxing, although I’m not sure how relaxing it will be eight meters up in full public view. “Each of the 1,041 stitches I
knit will represent one child who will die from poverty during the hour I am up there. “I am being sponsored by family, friends and colleagues for every stitch and hope to raise
almost £500- enough to sponsor a child with ActionAid for two years. The more people sponsor me, the faster I will knit.”Sponsor Sara now! [ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]
[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]
