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The money that you donate will be split equally between these four fantastic charities in order that they can continue the amazing work that they do. |
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One fifth of the world’s children live in India. With the help of our supporters, UNICEF UK funds programmes to ensure that these children have the best possible start in life.
The year 2008 sees the beginning of a new five-year country programme for India. This will continue the essential work that UNICEF has conducted in the past: its commitment to eradicating polio; addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic; ending child hunger and much more.
UNICEF is also supporting disaster preparedness projects, as well as responding to emergencies such as the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and, more recently, the flooding in the two north Indian states - Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in the summer of 2007.
UNICEF India will be using UK funding to support projects concentrating on HIV/AIDS and child protection. Forty per cent of commercial sex workers in India are under 18. UNICEF is planning to introduce ‘child friendly cities’ to address these problems and ensure that children have a safe environment to grow up in, without being forced into such professions. There are also national advocacy campaigns underway dealing with issues such as corporal punishment in schools, child rights and social exclusion. |
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As you can see, there is a vast amount of work to be done for the children of India. You can help UNICEF support those children who are in vital need of assistance.
For more information about the campaign please contact:
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“When I broke down, the Macmillan nurse told me about Rainbow Trust.
I contacted them immediately and felt I’d been given a lifeline” Lisa, mother of Mia
Every year 10,000 families in the UK have a child diagnosed with a terminal or life threatening illness. No one expects to out-live their children. The news that your child may die shatters families.
Of all the tragedies one is faced with in life, the death of a young child is the most difficult to deal with and as such is an area where society is least equipped to manage. The pressures on a family with a terminally ill child are extreme. Siblings often feel left out as the attention of their parents, family and friends focuses on their sick brother or sister. They often believe they have done something bad to cause this imbalance and feel frightened about what is happening around them and of what the future holds. They can become angry, withdrawn and resentful and schoolwork can be severely disrupted. |
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While their children are suffering, many parents struggle to keep their marriages together. They often forget their own health and emotional needs and the importance of spending time with each other and their healthy children. They sometimes lose their jobs as they’ve been away from the office for so many days while their sick child is in the hospital, or so they can spend what little time they have left with their sick child. Parents often carry guilt after bereavement, regardless of whether they could have done any more to comfort or help their child.
Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity exists to provide a unique and special service to these families. Set up in 1986, we recognise that the parents, brothers and sisters of a dying child are often forgotten. They shouldn’t be. By offering non-medical, practical and emotional help, we aim to maintain a sense of normality, and keep families together.
We can be contacted for support at any stage of illness, from diagnosis, during treatment and throughout bereavement. Very importantly, there is no time limit to the care we provide. We will stay with a family until they feel they can cope without our support, sometimes for several years after a child dies. Care is provided to families, irrespective of circumstance, ethnicity, social background, nationality or religion. Those who need us most are often socially disadvantaged and many are single parent families with little or no extended family support network.
No other charity or body provides the extent of professional care and consistency of contact as Rainbow Trust. Our work is a vital emotional and practical lifeline to those who turn to us. Many of the families we work with tell us we give them the strength to carry on.
Family Support
Caring for a very sick child can be extremely traumatic, demanding and isolating for both the parents and the healthy siblings. EnduroIndia funds a post for a Family Support Worker in Rainbow Trust’s Swindon Team who provides hands on, practical and emotional support for families with a terminally ill child. Performing a role most of us couldn’t contemplate, they keep the households of the families they support running, by helping with hospital trips, performing household duties, taking the siblings to school, and looking after them when parents remain in hospital with their sick child. In many cases they provide care during the final stages of a child’s life. The Swindon Team has been running since July 2002 and during that time has steadily grown the services it offers throughout Swindon and Wiltshire. Over the last year Rainbow has given assistance to over 40 families of which five are bereaved. Thirty-five families are currently having support; of these generally fifteen to twenty families are receiving regular visits.
One of the families that the Swindon Team helped last year had a son who was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The child was desperately ill in hospital, having has failed brain surgery. The referral was made to Rainbow at 3pm, by 5:30pm the family were assessed and introduced to one of the Rainbow Family Support Workers who immediately began to take care of the family’s two other children, one of whom has a physical disability. The Swindon Team intensively supported this family over the initial 24 hour period, during which time an emergency call came from the family at 4am, as the child’s condition had suddenly worsened and he had to be rushed into hospital. Our Swindon Workers responded to this call and immediately went to look after the siblings so mum and dad could go to hospital with the very sick child.
Respite Care
Our Family Support Workers recognised the need for high quality respite care for families dealing with the prospect of losing their child. In 1992 we opened our first respite house, and now have two, Rainbow House in Surrey, and Rainbow Fernstone near Newcastle, where families from across the UK can take a short break away from the pressures of home and hospital. Both houses can accommodate up to three families, and families can escape the daily grind of medical care, in a carefully designed relaxed and supportive environment, for a sometimes short, but essential break.
Fritha Vincent, Community Fundraiser
Click on Rainbow's logo to find out in more detail how Rainbow helps families who need us. |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) was founded over a century ago as the New York Zoological Society. It is dedicated to preserving the earth's wildlife and ecosystems. Unique among conservation organizations, the society combines scientifically based conservation efforts in the field with the captive propagation of endangered species, wildlife management and health services, and environmental education for local, national and international audiences.
WCS currently oversees more than 300 conservation projects in 53 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. WCS field staff, the largest of any international conservation organization in the United States, is helping to save diverse habitats across the globe. By training local wildlife staff and students in research methods, WCS ensures that there is a permanent local capacity for conservation and management. The society also promotes local public awareness of endangered species and habitat loss. |
WCS works in cooperation with local and national governments and conservation organizations by providing information based on its long-term field studies to decision-makers involved in conservation policy and action. As a result of these initiatives, WCS has helped establish more than 100 wildlife parks and reserves across the world.
The history of WCS research in India dates back to the 1960's, with the first-ever scientific study of wild tigers in central India by George Schaller. Thereafter, following a break of two decades, Ullas Karanth initiated the present WCS-India program as a single tiger research project at Nagarahole in 1986. Since then, WCS-India has blossomed into a comprehensive portfolio of activities that encompass the major global conservation strategies of WCS: scientific research, national capacity building, policy interventions, site-based conservation and developing new models of wildlife conservation. Acting synergistically, all these initiatives have contributed significantly to wildlife conservation in India and the rest of the world during the last three decades. WCS-India Program focuses on charismatic endangered mega fauna in protected reserves as the most appropriate social tactic for saving biodiversity.
We are delighted to have the support of Enduro India and look forward to a long partnership to aid us in our work to save the forests and wild places of India.
How Enduro India’s support can help save tigers in India
WCS believes that there are three key elements in successful tiger conservation. The first is having a biological vision of what can be achieved in a particular landscape. The second involves identifying and implementing the actions for achieving the vision. The third element involves going out and actually measuring the numbers of tigers, their prey and condition of habitats, including human impacts on these variables, using the best possible science. Recently WCS tiger scientists and conservation partners enunciated an institutional vision for saving wild tigers. WCS has set a long-term vision of a world harboring 100,000 wild tigers at the end of this century.
WCS promotes tiger conservation in India across its long term sites in India through the following actions:
Implementing a biological strategy centered around saving large clusters of breeding female tigers in selected long-term tiger landscapes and addressing key threats to tiger population viability at these landscapes through on ground action.
Integrating a social strategy of deeply involving nationals of tiger range countries in conservation, building their capacity, and empowering them to act effectively as conservation leaders at these long-term landscapes to save tigers.
Periodically and objectively evaluating the successes (or weaknesses) of our tiger research, training and conservation projects in order to develop and demonstrate increasingly effective models of tiger conservation based on adaptive management principles. To achieve this goal by conducting and promoting a sound research and monitoring program that brings the best available science to the task.
WCS-India program has been engaged in supporting long-term research and monitoring of tiger populations in Western Ghats sites like Nagarahole, Bandipur, Bhadra. The program works through several capable local NGOs: Centre for Wildlife Studies, TREE, Kudremukh Wildlife Foundation, Bhadra Wildlife Trust and SWIFT as well a the proactive advocacy group Wildlife First. Their on ground tiger conservation activities include improving tiger protection through conservation monitoring of key populations by key local conservation leaders, actively promoting voluntary resettlement of people away from critical tiger habitats on their own or in collaboration with the government, conducting local community education and outreach as well as if necessary advocacy and litigation activities that are permitted under Indian laws. Similar conservation models are being developed for a set of key tiger sites in Maharashtra, Central India in association with other partners.
Ms. Andrea Heydlauff WCS |
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The Adventure Ashram project stems from the shared vision of a group of well-respected health and educational professionals in India and the UK based social enterprise Global Enduro. The Adventure part of the project's title comes from the company Global Enduro who run many spectacular adventure fundraising events across the globe. The Ashram part of the name derives from the ancient word for ‘protection’ in Sanskrit – the source of Latin and the oldest language on earth, Sanskrit is still spoken in some parts of India. It also represents what Adventure Ashram set out to create and is an acronym for: Action for Social Health in Rural Areas.
The immediate need is for Adventure Ashram to provide medical and educational care and assistance to the remote village communities in the Palani Hill region that surround the mountain hill station of Kodaikanal in southern India. The need for proper medical facilities in these outlying villages is very strongly felt as some of these villages are 30-40 kilometres by road from the nearest hospital and, in such extreme terrain without any transport, in many cases this is 40 kilometres too far. The majority of these villagers are daily-wage earners or farmers with smallholdings who are often unable to afford medical care in Kodaikanal or in any other cities on the plains. They have, effectively, little or no access to sophisticated medical care because of the costs (in both time and money) of travelling to the nearest hospital. This underlines the need to take healthcare to the people, as many cannot afford to tackle illness until it is too late. |
Kodaikanal is one of the major towns visited on both the annual Enduro India and Karma Enduro events and at the heart of the project is the plan to start an outreach programme and build a 30 bed clinic in or near Kodaikanal as a base for the undertaking. This will provide modern out-patient and in-patient facilities together with addressing the local needs through direct health care and through health education. It is our ultimate aim to have the Adventure Ashram project recognised as a teaching institution but closer in time will be a formal tie up with a 'nearby' major hospital that will send us extra junior doctors on a rotation basis.
We intend to make the base hospital venture as environmentally friendly as possible and to this end there will be rooftop water harvesting with gravity fed sumps and tanks in order to minimize energy usage for pumping. Solar water heating units will be used to pre-heat water fed into electric geyser water heaters and there will be a water filtration unit for 'grey water'.
The land around the hospital buildings will be used as an organic vegetable garden, irrigated by the water from the 'grey water' filtration system and we hope that the vegetables produced will enable us to set up a programme to feed both the in-patients and their visiting relatives. Our thoughts are that this will enable the people to see for themselves how agriculture without pesticides is feasible. This area will later be expanded into a dietary department which will not only provide special food for diabetics etc, but will also enable us to teach patients to produce economical, nutritious food for themselves. | |
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