A DOOR-to-door appeal in Teesside is under way to raise money for charities in the developing world.

The collections have been organised by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (Adra-UK). Last year, volunteers from the Middlesbrough Seventh-Day Adventist Church collected almost £1,400 for a variety of charities. These included a child survival project in Haiti, a soup kitchen in Armenia, secondary school buildings in Sudan and two refugee projects in Azerbaijan.

This year, the scheme hopes to maintain existing projects and fund at least eight new projects, including a mother-and-child health centre in the Ivory Coast, an orphanage in India, a special needs camp in North Wales, and a community development in Madagascar