Paige Kimberley, Jordan

FIRST VISIT TO JORDAN

 

 

On my first visit I visited the schools and spoke with the Minister of Education.

 

I wrote an article which was published in a Jordanian magazine which has since taken up the cause of poverty amongst the children targeting schools.

The greatest concern for the schools was the adverse weather conditions in  winter and the lack of heating/ windows/ doors and the poverty of the children meant they were too cold to study.  The Government was undertaking a goal of supplying computers to some schools whilst many were without the basic equipment.

Since that visit the Government, particularly the Department of Education have undertaken a programme to supply coats to the children of the poor schools in Jordan.

 

 

SECOND VISIT TO JORDAN

 

My second visit was two fold.  I wanted to establish representatives who are more able to continue raising awareness within the country, especially with the Government and ensuring the momentum is continued.  I also delivered warm clothing for the children.

I have utilized my links with the British community in Jordan to ensure a path of delivery is in place and managed and that the needs are kept on the agenda and in the public eye.

 

Both visits have been of enormous benefit reaping a response beyond my expectations. I have engaged with key individuals, raised awareness and more critically

brought the issues to the people who can and have made changes.

A significant shift in thinking is taking place and the needs of the children are being addressed.  More importantly a willingness by the Jordanian authorities to address these issues is gradually being displayed.

Paige Kimberley

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Metta Centre, Nepal

Metta Centre, Nepal    

Day trip to a very popular spiritual attraction in the Himalayas

Key Largo US

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St. Vincent and Grenadines

St. Vincent and Grenadines

Hi Don

Sorry for the delay in responding but better late than never.

Can you please contact me direct at this email and let me know

what you require from us in the UK. I will be travelling to the Caribbean

at Easter and will definitely be spending some time in St. Vincent.

There are people and organisations in the UK who have pledged to support the

Sandy Bay initiatives; if the resources you have cannot be delivered by

myself due to bulk or some other reason please let me know so that I can

arrange support from other interested parties/organisations.

Regards

Kenneth John

on behalf of

People Working With People (UK)

From Seguya Pius in Uganda

Ugandan Traditional Wear

From Farhana

From Farhana  

 

Eid-Ul- Adha is the celebration and culmination of the pilgrimage to Mecca.  The pilgrimage or Hajj is a central duty of Islam and forms one of the five 'pillars' or central religious duties.  The Hajj brings together Muslims of all races and speaking lots of different languages.    The meaning of 'Eid-ul-Adha' is the Festival of Sacrifice.  It is a commemoration of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham in the Bible)'s willingness to sacrifice his son for God.  The story is that God replaces the son with an animal and to this day Muslims also sacrifice an animal and many distribute the meat to the poor and needy.

Remember Chernobyl Working Group

Chernobyl, Belarus

 

 

After much hard work by three members of the Working Group we were delighted to see the Remember Chernobyl website go live at the end of last year. I hope you have already visited it at www.rememberchernobyl.org.

 

 

If you have still not sent us information about your charity, your contact details and your web address then please email me this information straightaway.

 

Can I remind all those who are already on the site that in return for including your charity’s details we would like you to hold one event during April under the Remember Chernobyl banner, publicising it with our publicity materials (details below) and raising money for the Belarusian Children’s Hospice. – we have already set up a special account for this money.

 

 

Events to mark the 20th anniversary

On the web site we will be including details of events marking the 20th Anniversary of the disaster taking place in April and throughout 2006.  We want to include events organised by individual charities as well those we organize jointly. Please email me details of your event in good time so we can put them on the site.

 

 

 

Schools’ Writing Competition

We hope to run a writing competition for schools, details of which will appear on the website soon.

 

 

Appeal for Research

We are asking people to sign a petition on the website calling for a fund, administered by the United Nations, to be established urgently and to undertake more research into the health effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster and in particular the damage caused by the long term presence of low-level radiation. The petition would be presented to the Secretary General of the UN in April 2006. You can print copies of the appeal form straight from the web site and we hope that all charities will encourage people in their area to sign it.

 

 

 

Leaflet

We are producing a high quality information leaflet for free distribution by our individual charities. It is intended to give the public and media an overview of the disaster, its effects on children in Belarus, the work of our charities and the “Remember Chernobyl” initiative with details of how people can get involved. There will also be space on the back of the leaflet for your charity’s name and contact details.

 

 

Copies of the leaflet will be available, for the price of the postage and packing, around the end of February 2006.  Please let us know by 19th January, at the latest, how many you would like.

 

 

Remember Chernobyl Merchandise

 

We are producing merchandise to help charities publicise the 20th anniversary. We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to raise awareness by using these very attractive items:  

 

 

Metal lapel badges with the words “Remember Chernobyl” inscribed on it (max. 40p each)

• Envelope labels/stickers bearing the Remember Chernobyl logo (approx 1.5p each)
• Car window stickers with the Remember Chernobyl logo (approx. 28p each)
• Lapel stickers (approx. 1p each) – ideal to give away at fundraising events, collections etc.
• Purple Ribbons (approx. 25p each)
• Wrist Bands (approx. 25p each)

 

 

Pens – we decided that it would be better if individual charities produced their own with the words ‘Remember Chernobyl’ and the website address on them

 

T shirts, sweatshirts, fleeces etc. The artwork for an embroidered logo will be set up by the Remember Chernobyl working Group to enable charities, organisations and individuals to order their own. Details will appear on the website.

 

 

We hope to have the merchandise available from about the end of February or early March. To gauge the quantities we need to produce please email me the number of leaflets, badges, envelope stickers, car stickers and lapel stickers you would like asap, and by January 19th at the very latest.

 

 

As you can see the Working Group has been hard at work on behalf of all UK and Irish charities to help raise awareness that 26th April 2006 is the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl accident and that the effects will be felt for many, many years. Working together we can raise funds to help the Belarusian Children’s Hospice expand its work and, of course, generate new members and new involvement for our individual charities

 

We look forward to hearing from you how much publicity merchandise you require.

 

Best wishes

Claire Chettoe

on behalf of the Remember Chernobyl Working Group