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One of the most important points with our fundraising is to ensure that recipients of the charitable assistance don’t just receive money, but instead get the help required to help themselves.
Please give if you can.
Anyone wishing to make a donation to the school or if you have an idea for us, you can contact us direct at: donations@globalhandscharity.com This email address allows you to contact us with ideas as well as registering your interest or donating money, which can be transferred by telegraphic transfer and any bank can organise this. The photo here shows the newest member of the community, born just prior to my departure...and obviously a future student of the school.
SMALL AMOUNTS - BIG RESULTS
Figures quoted are Australian dollars
What can a $20 or $50 donation achieve? Well for a start, an eye check-up in the countries where Global Hands operates can cost as little as $5 per child. A dental check-up is about the same.
In Nepal $20 can buy 30 chickens and $50 can buy an adult goat with enough left over to purchase containers to store milk in.
In West Africa $20 can buy 2 mosquito nets to prevent the spread of malaria and $50 can buy a cow. That might not seem very important, but a cow not only provides milk (if it’s the dairy variety), but it also raises the status of the family who own it, enabling them to trade any possible excess milk for eggs or some other important item.
$100 can buy multiple quantities of the above…or pay a teacher for around three months. The dollar a day figure continually comes to mind in the third world. Those lucky enough to have a job get the magic buck-a-day.
So it starts to make sense what $500 or $1000 could achieve. $500 could purchase all the stationery needed for a hundred students for a whole year. Or it could provide a well for clean water for the students. For $1000 you could build a new basic classroom. Whatever you the reader are tempted to donate, you can be sure that it’ll make a world of difference. If you want to share an idea or give your time, it could mean even more. AND BIGGER AMOUNTS COULD CHANGE THE LIVES OF COUNTLESS PEOPLE! $6000 would be sufficient for a block of town land in the Gambia to build a school on. $10,000 could build the school, and that’s the buildings, desks, stationery, blackboards, medical kits and even the wages for the teachers for a year…all for $10,000. $10,000 could also provide the first scholarship for a teacher to come to Australia and learn more about child care, teaching and perhaps even first aid. This amount of money could pay for the necessary air tickets, visas, tuition and accommodation. UPDATE JUNE 2009 A little effort can sometimes reap great rewards. We’ve seen this in The Gambia and Nepal through the efforts of those listed below and many others who have worked tirelessly to achieve the changes. For the future, on a larger scale, all countries have to deal with many perplexing problems – wars, famine, deforestation, global warming, the unfair distribution of wealth across the globe and so very much more. My dream, as you will have read on previous pages, is to establish a rehabilitation centre for child soldiers in Africa. So many thousands of children need assistance to put down arms and regain their childhood. I’d like to be able to encourage the farming of the oceans…to establish kelp farms on the continental shelf, to properly use human waste as fertiliser on the land…and as the great Wangari Maathi suggests, continual planting of trees to clean up and sustain our world for the future. Let us all work together to achieve a peaceful world, a world where children are no longer taken from their families and forced to fight in wars, a world where people no longer die unnecessarily from preventable diseases, a world where there is food for all, and a world where there are exciting opportunities for all those who want to strive for a better life. UPDATE JAN 2010... Brikama Nursery School is the next project requiring assistance...please help if you can by contacting us with educational books, stationery and funds.
SPONSORSHIP Sponsorship comes in many forms, not just cold hard cash. A sponsor can share unique ideas, man an information desk, answer the phone, pass on a message and sometimes, quite importantly, give encouragement. Some of these people and organisations are listed here. Some of them will never fully appreciate how important their involvement has been. A little goes a long way…and in the third world we are forever reminded of this. To all those sponsors, past, present and future, our sincere thanks! Swiftpages ... www.swiftpages.com Trekking for Kids – a US based trekking company www.trekkingforkids.org Corporate Heart International Pty Ltd - Sydney Australia www.corporate-heart.com Makasutu Eco-Lodge in The Gambia www.makasutu.com The Staff of Lend Lease ICT - Sydney Australia The team at The Gambia Experience www.gambia.co.uk World Nomads Insurance & Footprints www.worldnomads.com.au Sister Emilian Gerethy – a former teacher in The Gambia Rodney Black & Michelle Preston of Creations Jewellers - Canberra Australia www.creationsjewellers.com.au Dr & Mrs D Gerke – Adelaide Australia www.success-all.com/gerke Mr & Mrs Steve Chambers - Mosman Australia www.chamberscellars.com.au Cathay Pacific www.cathaypacific.com Wolf Studio – Perugia Italy www.polysun.it & www.wolfworldwi.de
Thomas van der Sluijs - Cadiz Spain
The Professionals Real Estate - Avalon Australia www.avalonre.com.au
Chris Dowsett of Social Chit Chat - UK www.socialchitchat.org
Dr Shane Oliver & family (Dinusha, Kaitlyn, Bodhi) – Sydney Australia
Allan Baillie – Sydney Australia www.allanbaillie.com.au
Barbara Allgaier – Merimbula Australia
Susan Rose - Church Point Australia
The Dober Family – Sydney Australia
The ladies at Mosman/Lane Cove Legacy - Sydney Australia
The de Klerk Family - Newport Australia
Cathy & Liz Paul – Sydney Australia
The Dunkin Family – Merimbula Australia
Christian Thierry – The Hague Netherlands
Bob Martell – Sydney Australia
Phil & Kerry McCouatt - Mosman Australia
The Smythe Family – Clareville Australia
Verena Grad - Oberdünzing Germany Daniela Rieß - Westerland Germany Thomas Dollinger - Münchsmünster Germany Roland Nerb - München Germany Kate Hughes – Melbourne Australia
Simon & Val Hollis – Corryong Australia
The Guenther Family – Breitbrunn Germany
The Baillie Family – Clareville Australia
Dr and Mrs R Kammermeier - Herrsching Germany
Tom & Anna Bishop – Sydney Australia
Dudley Holley – United Kingdom
Volker Jeisel – Geretsried Germany
The Dufty Family – Clareville Australia
Sister Vi Keeley – Newport Australia
Port Vincent Primary School – Port Vincent Australia
Paul Rubie - Umina Australia
Dr Michael Forfa – Sydney Australia
Dr Anthony Hooper – Newport Australia
John & Noelene Stone – Avalon Australia
John Hadfield - Hamilton New Zealand
Joan Sampson - Sydney Australia
Sharyn McKay - Sydney Australia
Surya Timilsina & family - Pokhara Nepal
Judy & Barry at Merimbula Rainforest Nursery - Merimbula Australia
Sports Power - Bega Australia www.sportspower.com.au
Kelly Stewart of Dee Why Day & Night Pharmacy - Dee Why Australia
Laurel Wood - Avalon Australia
Bernadette Watson - Fairlight Australia
Collette Searl & friends - Avalon Australia
Pat Hall & friends - Bundanoon and Nowra Australia
Bryce (Rob) Henderson - Avalon Australia
Kent James & Family - Tasmania Australia
The Davidson Family - Hope Island Australia
PRESS WE'VE RECEIVED
Pittwater Life - 2006
Bega News - February 2007
ABC Regional Radio - February 2007
Northern Beaches Radio - March 2007
The Manly Daily - April 2007
Vacations & Travel - April 2007
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