Hi. Tis Graham.

No Christmas cards from me this year. Instead I'm donating to Medical Aid for Palestinians. (MAP)

When I cycled through the West Bank I saw that these beautiful people were badly in need of aid long before the recent troubles. Since then, MAP staff were among the 1700 medical workers killed in Gaza.

I am hoping you will sponsor me when I spend a night sleeping out in a Finland forest on what must be one of the coldest nights of the year just before Christmas. I'm not lookng forward to it but would be cheered by your kind donations to this worthy cause.

MAP is a medical charity registered in UK and is not involved in politics or military issues.