Projects

HELP volunteer, Liam Campbell from Yukon, Canada, has returned to his school just outside Kalimpong for the second time having raised CAD $20,000 to build new classrooms. The school is overcrowded at present, and different grades have to share the same rooms. HELP has contributed £1000 to Liam’s fund-raising efforts. Here are pictures of Liam and Dinesh Rai, the principal of the school, standing on the land where the rooms will be constructed.…

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We have agreed to help the following projects this year:

• Provide the funds required by the Women’s Empowerment Centre in Damak (Eastern Nepal) to set up a Safe House for women suffering from domestic abuse.

• Part fund the salary of a teacher at the SASA Academy in Uttarakhand (India)

We will be considering other requests as they come in.…

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Dear friends,

This edited report (below) from Himalayan Projects, the Belgian NGO we partner in Western Nepal, provides an update on the Nepal earthquake relief work that your donations are helping to make possible. I am sending it to everyone in our mailing lists, since a good number of you helped us raise the £5593 in response to the disaster. Although the earthquake is no longer in the news, the work of rebuilding homes and schools will continue for years. We have already sent over £2000 to Himalayan Projects.…

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I am pleased to report that we have received £5593 in response to my appeal for donations after the Nepal earthquake. This exceeds the expectations I had, and stands as testimony to your compassion for and generosity towards the many victims who have lost their schools and homes in what was a major disaster. In addition to individual donations, a school in Spain and a church congregation in Scotland held collections and fund-raising events which raised sums of over £1000 respectively.…

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Many villagers have lost their homes in the recent earthquake in Nepal and are living in tents. We can help provide shelter and utensils so that they can stay in their villages and start the re-construction process and re-build their lives.

We need money to do this, so we would welcome donations from anyone reading this. Just go to the donations page of the HELP website if you would like to make a contribution.…

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HELP is donating £2500 to the Women’s Empowerment Centre in Damak, Nepal. The money will be spent on sewing machines and training to enable the women to support themselves by making clothes and toys. 

The underlying objectives of this local NGO  are as follows:

• To provide skills development training to help women live an independent life.
• To provide legal advocacy to under-privileged women to combat social, economic and cultural discrimination.
• To support orphaned, disabled and displaced women and enable them to live a respectable life.

It’s always good to get positive feedback. Here is what the principal of the JN Memorial Public English School says in a recent letter to me about HELP’s assistance over the years (in his own words):

“By getting fund from HELP we could make new school building and the poor village children are getting good education from this school and we do hope that this work goes for ever. Our school gives you vote of thank you to you as well as HELP family for the generous work.

 Cloud bursts during the nights  of  3^rd and 4^th August  brought disaster to the Uttarkashi area of North India. Villages were washed away in the resulting flood waters from tributaries feeding the Ganges. 36 people died, and nearly 1800 people saw their cultivated land washed away and more than 1000 people suffered severe damage to their houses.

In spite of the damage done to  bridges and roads,  our local partner, the Serve and Share Association (SASA)managed to reach the area and  act quickly to set in train the following emergency support:

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