Fund Raising

Click here for a report on completion of Solar Lighting Project at Berega Hospital, Tanzania

RECENT FUND RAISING AND PROJECTS SUPPORTED

We would very much like to thank all those who helped us to make 2009/10 a fantastic year: the Friends and Supporters of TWOAT, the local Churches, the Walton May Fayre committee, TAC and other voluntary and commercial organisations.  In particular we would like to mention Roger and Anna-Stina Ponsford who helped raise funds for us by a Spit Roast Event hosted in their garden.

Unfortunately Sing Carols normally organised at Christchurch for us by Ray Brotherwood and Dennis Lanaway had to be cancelled as Ray fell and injured his knees, we wish him a speedy recovery.

In a new activity for us, using the forecourt of Nethercott Opticians, Sally’s son Andrew and 3 other volunteers from DFID raised £78 in donations whilst giving away mince pies and TWOAT leaflets.

We are supporting a new project this year called Papua Partners.  The daughter of a Surrey resident and her partner are working in a deprived part of Indonesia to improve the lives of Papuans.  We will pay the annual wage costs of one of their Papuan health workers for the next three years.

We were very sorry to hear recently of the death of Brian Attwell who, with his wife Betty, ran the orphanage at Chosica.  This project is the one which TWOAT has supported for the longest time.  Our thoughts and prayers are with Betty for her loss and the challenge of maintaining the orphanage.

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 Mike Fox or our Treasurer, John Tedder - go to Contact Us.

The following support was given to projects during 2009:

• Child sponsorship, Zambia £250
• Hellwel Trust - childhood development KwaZulu £800
• RUSH, housing and training project £500
• Support for Trade School in Mtandika, Tanzania £520
• Chosica orphanage for mentally handicapped, Peru £2250
• COMUS, farmer training, El Salvador £1420
• Lake Malawi Project, agricultural training £800
• Ludhiana Hospital, nurse training, India £300
• Sangam School, teacher salary, India £550
• SAFAD, water supply, Guatemala £500
• St John Opthalmic Hospital, equipment, Jerusalem £500
• St Johns School for the Deaf, The Gambia (solar power) £1082
• Heart valves for surgeon volunteer in Uganda £700
• The Funding Network Projects (various donations) £1000
• Fertilizer and training for Katete Project, Malawi £600
• Maternity waiting area in Berega Hospital £500
• Pre-school support Uganda £360
• Disabled women's self help group in Malawi £320
• VSO Uganda, AIDS awareness £1500
• Motivation - tools & workshop equipment for the disabled in Sri Lanka £1363
• Motivation - support for disabled children in Tanzania £600
• Support for children's home in Georgia £500
• Sponsoring a child to attend a summer camp in Albania £50
• Pumps for Nepal £500

The following were projects supported in 2010