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LAST UPDATED: 24th Feb 2008 Click here for
a report on completion of Solar Lighting Project at Berega
Hospital, Tanzania
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Most Recent News We
are very grateful for Christchurch URC for allowing us to hold our Quiz
Evening in their Hall in Walton. The 50 attendees helped raise nearly £400. Our
street collection raised £382 and we subsequently received a further cheque
for £100 from a street donor who read the leaflet describing our activities,
which we were distributing and wanted to help us with extra funds. This was a marvellous gesture and a great
encouragement to us all. Our usual bottle stall at the
Walton May Fayre on May 17 was very successful despite the steady drizzle and
we raised exactly £300. We had one or two bottles left over for future
raffles. Many thanks to all those that
donated bottles or frequented our stall.
In May and June On June 14th
the North Surrey Downsmen (see http://www.downsmen.co.uk/Framebottom.htm
) entertained us with Barbershop singing and the evening raised over
£600. Two more dates for your
diary - we are organising a Spit Roast Lunch in Meadow Walk on Sunday September 14 and we will
having our Annual Social Meeting on Saturday 11th October at
7.30pm in St John’s Church Hall opposite Tadworth Station. We have recently donated
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I am very pleased to tell you that during
2007 we were able to generate over £18,000 for the projects we
supported. A list of those to whom we
sent funds in the year 2006/07 is included below but in addition to these a
further £5,200 was donated to It is notable that nearly half of our
support is now going to projects, like that for The 25th anniversary of the formation of
TWOAT took place on the 19th October 2007. Thanks to the generous help of our
supporters over the last 25 years we also reached the milestone of having
provided more than £200,000 worth of aid to projects in the poorest parts of
the world. To mark the occasion of
our anniversary we committed to pay for the construction of a new classroom
for an orphanage at Chosica in Any funds raised in our annual appeal over
and above those specifically needed for Chosica will go to others of our
projects associated with children. RECENT FUND RAISING AND PROJECTS SUPPORTED We would
very much like to thank all those who have helped us to achieve another
fantastic year, in particular the Friends and Supporters of TWOAT, the local
Churches, the Walton May Fayre committee and other voluntary and commercial
organisations. Most recently the choir of We have
recently sent £500 to the RUSH project to construct a house and to provide
stock to start up a small market stall for a family in We would be interested to hear about any
young people with local connections intending to undertake a Gap Year
assignment who might like to become linked with TWOAT. Finally
could I please remind you all that we are able to increase the money we give
to our projects by over 25% when we can reclaim Gift Aid. If you have not already done so and you are
a UK tax payer, please make sure we have a signed Gift Aid declaration form
from you – these can be obtained from me or our Treasurer, John Tedder (see
contact details on front page or email me at The following support was given to
projects during our last financial year:
Child sponsorship, Chosica orphanage for mentally handicapped
– Chosica - new classroom project £1500 COMUS, farmer training, Computers for Schools, HELWEL Trust, childhood development KwaZulu £800 Lake Malawi Project, agricultural training £770 Pump Aid (via TFN), RUSH, housing & training, SAFAD, water supply, Sight Savers, Technology for Children, The Funding Network Projects (3 small donations) £330 Rehabilitation therapy for disabled, VSO
Uganda, AIDS awareness
£1500 Other There
are a number of other Overseas Aid Trusts in Caterham
Overseas Aid Trust (COAT) http://surreycommunity.info/overseasaid/
Merstham
Aid Project (MAP) http://www.mapweb.org.uk/ Oxted is
covered by One World Group OWG http://www.limpsfield.net/limpsfield/owg/owg.html
Purley
Overseas Support Trust (POST) http://www.purleyinfo.com/company.php?cid=PUR45
Project Reports -
Autumn 2007 SAN ANDRES HOME, CHOSICA,
This
year we are again giving £500 towards designing and building gravity-fed
drinking water distribution systems in the district of Comanche, TOOLS FOR SELF RELIANCE (TFSR) We
have received a record number of old hand tools this year. TFSR have renovated them and sent them on to
poor countries. Just let John
Allinson (01737 213347) know if you have any. We
have given £800 towards a programme which the HELWEL Trust supports in Kwa
Zulu Natal in In this summary of recent important news from TWOAT
projects, we must mention that Doctors Noj and Mary Northway, who many of you
will have met at various TWOAT events, have, after ten years at Berega Hospital
in Tanzania, decided that it is time for them and their two young sons to
move on to other challenges. Noj and
Mary have both accepted appointments at St Andrew’s School in VSO – THE
For the last year we have been supporting a volunteer,
Judith Parsons, working on AIDs awareness in
Our
sponsored child, Andrew Gumbo sent us a Christmas card and is continuing to
progress with his studies. Colin
Ellesmere joined a recent meeting of the TWOAT committee to give us an update
on progress with the vocational training activity we helped to fund last
year. A current priority is the
establishment of vegetable gardens to support communities suffering from the
impact of HIV/AIDS. The committee
agreed to provide a further £770 to assist LMP with their work. This
Indian village school has appointed a qualified headmistress who will
start in July. It will be interesting to see what changes she makes. The
numbers of pupils have increased; some of them are from other villages so the
school bus is much used to bring them to the school as there is no public
transport. Next term we hope to forge a link between the school and a
local school here as Sangam have an opportunity to make use of an email
facility. We
are sponsoring another student nurse this year. THE Ruel
Luarca has completed his formal education so we are no longer supporting him
financially but we have been pleased to hear that he is working for an auto
repair company, not far from his home, and is able to help other members of
his family with monies from his earnings. ELMINA YOUTH TRAINING We
have donated £800 towards the equipment needed for a training project in the
poor fishing THE KAKAMEGA This
project was set up by a St John Eye Hospital ( Our Xmas appeal monies went to fund support (false eyes
etc) for people who have lost their eyes due to accidents, disease or sadly,
and all too commonly in this part of the world, as a result of civil unrest. TFN
IDENTIFIED PROJECTS We have continued our membership of the Network. We have given a total of £520 to two of
their projects so far this year. The
first was for the provision of clean water and the improvement of sanitation
at schools in GAP YEAR PROJECTS Unfortunately the Gap
Year student we had expected to support this year decided that she could not
undertake the trip due to a need to re-sit some of her exams. GAP YEAR - GENERAL You may have seen some adverse
publicity concerning the usefulness of some Gap Year projects in the press
recently. TWOAT takes a view that
there is still plenty of opportunity to build cultural bridges as well as
doing good work during such assignments.
However, we prefer to support individuals who have some particular
connection to this area, as an opportunity for direct contact with the person
undertaking the Gap Year helps us to confirm that the assignment is
worthwhile. Please let us know if you
are aware of any projects that might be appropriate for us. OTHER PROJECTS In addition to the
above we have continued contact with or given financial support to Adopt A
Granny (Ecuador), Motivation (Central America and Africa), Street Child
(India), Disability and Development
Partners (was called Jaipur Limb in Nepal), Imagine (Mozambique), Motivation
(various), Street Child (India), SOS Children’s Villages (Georgia), Pilcomayo
Primary Health Project (Argentina) and Vision Aid Overseas (various). SOS
Children’s Villages (Georgia), Pilcomayo Primary Health Project (
To find out more about TWOAT
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