| | |
Welcome to my website!
A brief note about me
 I live in Hampshire in the UK, have a wonderful
daughter - Melody, an extended, adopted family in far flung places, am a
believer in the brotherhood of man, a member of various organisations
to extend my knowledge & involvement in our world and am a lover of
wilderness, walking, exploration and the myriad wonders of creation at
large - in a nutshell! 
The purpose of my website......
.... is to introduce
projects in which I am involved to anyone who might be interested in
learning and/or and possibly helping them. I have been to all many times
and know them inside out.
These are projects run by local people with
the sole aim of helping themselves rise above the grinding poverty into
which they and their neighbours were born. Some projects are in Uganda
and the other in Sri Lanka.
All the projects take
volunteers to help them develop various aspects of care and education
for children and adults so that they can help themselves and provide
good care for their families in the future. Despite being in countries
far apart they share the same vision and motivation. I have been to and worked at all of them.
Anyone who wishes
to make a donation for any of these causes, especially if it is for the
high protein soya flour for the children in the Madhvani Children's Hospital in
Jinja, where you would see babies and children looking as emaciated as children in famine adverts on TV, may email me via the Contact Page of this website to
discuss it. All donors will get feedback and photos. The fortified soya flour is about £1 a kilogram. It would be purchased and distributed by the Rotary Club of Jinja whose members are both dedicated and reliable. I am currently working with the Jinja Club with a view to starting a medical volunteering project at the hospital. Volunteers will need to provide proff of their medical qualifications.
The Volunteer Uganda Project
is in an area where families live by subsistence farming and there is a
very small supplementary income from selling home produced crafts to
tourists who come to see the falls on the River Nile. This income will
totally disappear soon due to the building of the Bujagali Dam which
will drown the falls. Then, there main reason for tourists to visit
their area will be gone, so this income will be lost.
 
The Sri Lanka Project is in an area that was devastated by the Tsunami and where all
families were affected by losing family members who worked on the coast
as fishermen or in the tourist industry. This caused an emotional and
economic void in many families which will take generations to redress.
This project works with all ages of people from the elderly to pre school children in the fields of care and education. One of its main aims is to build bridges between the various religious sections of Sinhalese society.
Both the Uganda and Sr Lanka projects have their own websites (see side/navigation panel for pages with those details) where you
can learn about the organisers, the children and adults they are
helping and learn what you can do to help. Even telling someone else
about their work may result in another person participating. Their
websites can be accessed via the buttons on the left side panel.
| |