By working closely with local communities and our trusted partners overseas, we help finance and run a variety of projects designed to meet our charitable aims: to practically serve people in poverty, to provide opportunities for education for key target groups, to support and encourage local churches & persecuted Christians, and to educate people about Christianity.
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I know that I'm incredibly fortunate and blessed to be in a good, secure job that I love, able to support my family and my community.
This is in no small part because I grew up with access to high quality, state funded education, surrounded by a family and community that valued education and supported me to achieve my potential. After attending state schools, I was offered a place at university, training at medical school, ultimately becoming a consultant anaesthetist in the NHS.
For 25 years I've been partnering with a small charity working with disadvantaged communities in India, founded by a former schoolteacher from South India, who I have the privilege of counting as my best friend. Our organisation is registered as a charity in the UK and India.
We've been moved, disturbed, and challenged seeing some of the great inequalities faced by children and young people in that part of the world. Children that have no hope of fulfilling their enormous potential because they just don't have access to fundamentals such as early childcare or schooling. These are children that are at high risk of exploitation (such as child labour), growing up not knowing their basic rights as citizens, having a high risk of alcoholism and drug use, and not being able to secure good, well paying jobs to help end the cycle of poverty.
The impact goes further – when working parents cannot get childcare for their youngest children, they may be forced to leave them with older siblings, who in turn then cannot attend school.
Its estimated that only 20% of children from tribal communities will end up going to school, however, if they have the opportunity to attend nursery or kindergarten when they are much younger, 80% of them will go on to complete their basic education.
We are desperately seeking to support four village-run Early Child Development Centres in tribal areas of South India. Children aged from 1-5 attend 5 days per week, receiving care, nutritious meals and engaging in educational play supervised by trained teachers.
These vital nursery schools are at risk of closing after their partner organisation could no longer fund them. This means that 80-100 vulnerable children aged 1-5 are at risk of losing their nursery places.
Our charity is seeking to fund these nursery schools for 3 years until the government can take on responsibility. We need to raise £36,000 (£250 per nursery, per month, for 3 years).
We're encouraged by the recent story of Srimathi - a young tribal woman aspiring to be a doctor - the first ever from her community to gain a place at medical school (Source: The Hindu. November 11th 2022).
We want more children and young people from disadvantaged tribal communities to be able to achieve their dreams like Srimathi.
You can help us make it a reality.