Tanzania

Many families are still struggling following the lockdown and with the economic crisis there has been a huge increase in poverty and unemployment.

With families unable to feed their children and previous education funding from charities drying up, children are being forced to give up their education and undertake back breaking work in quarries for an absolute pittance. 

Just £3 a week keeps a child out of the quarries and in education, with nutritional support.

The Philippines

Girls Development Centre -  Working with the partner charity Indigo - we intend to partially fund the building of a much needed new centre to support young girls escaping from abuse and trafficking.

The centre will be focused on counselling, rehabilitation and vocational training. Many of these young girls have been through unimaginable horrors at the hands of sex-traffickers, kidnappers and domestic abusers.  

The centre will provide much-needed space for 52 young women our partner charity is already working with. The facilities will also be accessible for up to a further 750 children from the community slum areas. The centre is expected to complete in 2021.

Uganda

Food insecurity is a major issue in Uganda. Access to food is affected by poverty, price instabilities, poor infrastructure and lack of market. Consequently 22% of the households in Uganda consume only one meal per day.  This situation worsened with the lockdown when only a few farmers were able to plant as expected which resulted in low production and limited food supply to markets and thus food insecurity. 

Restrictions on the movement of people caused by the ban on transport in the wake of the pandemic constrained the procurement of farm inputs, seeds and other services. With limited access to inputs this affected a number of farmers around the country causing a food shortage and a spike in food prices. There was also panic buying which left many families with no food.

Food insecurity has a particularly devastating effect on young, growing children. We aim to support families to regain food security.

£83 buys a seed pack & provides food sustainability.

Danushadam, Nepal

As is the case globally, the education of the local children in Danushadam has suffered due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We will be continuing our work with grassroots charity on the ground Chora Chori and in particular supporting local education projects to cover the provision of teachers.  

Just £44 a week pays a teacher to enable a brighter future for the children.

As this global pandemic continues, clean water is even more important than ever - to stop the spread of the coronavirus as well as water borne diseases. Yet sadly, we live in a world where 785 million people do not have access to clean water nearby and a staggering 2 billion don’t have access to proper sanitation.

Some of the funds raised in the Xmas Appeal will be used in our well building programme. Through this we have already built 68 wells in parts of India and Africa, giving 46,000 people daily access to clean fresh water.

This benefits the whole community but especially the young girls of school age who are traditionally the water collectors in the family. Instead of spending hours a day finding water, children can receive an education, the value of which is priceless

Just £15 will provide a family with clean, safe water for the next ten years.