The community web site for
Glossop
in the High Peak
| glossop.com |
The community web site for
Glossop
in the High Peak
|
|
|
|
|
|
bookmark virtual glossop | email virtual glossop | search virtual glossop |
|
|
Chernobyl Children's Project (UK) The Chernobyl Children's Project, launched in 1995, is an international charity based in Glossop. The charity now includes around 30 groups in England, Scotland and Wales. Each summer it provides recuperative holidays in the UK for about 400 children from Belarus. The project also organises holidays in clean parts of Belarus for children who cannot come to the UK and delivers medical supplies and other humanitarian aid to Belarus. It supports a children's hospice, trains orphanage staff to prepare children for fostering, and works with partners in Belarus to establish better care for children and young people with disabilities. http://www.chernobyl-children.org.uk/ |
|
 EETEP EETEP (English Effort to End Poverty) is an aid organisation founded by Phill Booth from Chapel Street in 2005. Its main aim is to give assistance to people living in poverty. EETEP works in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia and has recently begun supporting an orphanage in Chennai in India. http://www.eetep.org.uk/ |
 |
 Kisep Kibera Barbara Hastings-Asatourian from Victoria Street is supporting Kisep Kibera after a visit to Kenya in the summer of 2007. Kibera Slum Education Programme is a coalition of four community-based organisations which began in 2001 after Oxfam GB found 75% of school age children in East Africa's biggest slum were out of school. See Nathan Collett's video below for an account of life in Kibera; click on the image above right for Barbara's Kenya album on Facebook. http://www.kisepkibera.org/ |
 |
 The Mamelodi Trust Gill Taylor from Pyevgrove started The Mamelodi Trust after working as a volunteer at the Meetse A Bophelo primary school in Mamelodi, a township on the outskirts of Pretoria, South Africa. The school has 2,500 pupils and only 300 books. The Mamelodi Trust has built a new library and now needs continuing support to stock it with books. You can join their 100 club here. http://www.mameloditrust.org.uk/ |
 |
 The Winnie Mabaso Foundation Lisa Ashton, a BBC journalist based in Glossop, started The Winnie Mabaso Foundation in 2004 after visiting the Zenzele Day Care Centre and Orphanage in Finetown, near Johannesburg, South Africa. Its founder, Winnie Mabaso, died in 2007 but the foundation continues to support 60 AIDS orphans. |
 |
| |
A
service provided by Sites
for sore eyes Phone & fax: 01457 856492 | Email: mail@glossop.com Site hosted by Vision Internet Services |
|