Impact of the £36,100 donation:

1. Expanding their Street Outreach programme into the suburbs of Jinja city to reach children that are not currently being helped – £10,000

This donation was made in 2023 and we will get the report on the impact made in 2024

2. Business training, start-up and follow-up costs for 27 families of street- connected girls – £9,283

3. Sponsoring school for 30 girls – £6,300

4. Contribution towards a bigger Girls’ Drop-In Centre – £3,637

5. Sponsoring 7 students in vocational training – £3,000

6. Supporting 2 months of feeding at their two rescue centres, drug rehabilitation centre and two half-way homes – £2,100

7. Resettle 7 rescued street-children home, including at least 3 follow-up visits for further counselling – £1,000

8. Business peer training for 150 families to prevent girls from coming to the streets – £780

Impact of the £23,000 donation:

1. Community Health Centre (CHC) Hospital – £16,000

The CHC provides vital access to healthcare for 120,000 people in 75 rural and poor villages in the surrounding area, saving people from travelling far to access important health services.

The funds paid for:

– 2,485 laboratory tests

– 2,285 outpatient visits

– 328 inpatient stays

– 21 baby deliveries

– 4 Caeserian Sections

2. Differently-abled children – £4,400

This helped educate, rehabilitate and empower 18 differently-abled children at the Ashirvad Trust for the Disabled in Sayla, Gujarat.

3. Tertiary education for young ladies – £2,400

This was used to support the education of 40 young women at the Ladakchand Manekchand Vora College of Arts and Commerce in Sayla.

It is difficult for girls to access education in rural India. It is very likely that these young women would not have been able to study this far without the provision of this facility in a small town like Sayla.

How We Helped

1. Kenya – £26,000

1) £16,000 donated for 550 46kg food parcels distributed to Kaani and Katwanya villages, Machakos, in June 2021. This is a very dry and poor region in Kenya where relief is not commonly given out, and where Covid had exacerbated an already tough situation due to lack of rain. Lions sourced and distributed the parcels and we are very grateful to them for their brilliant logistics and organisation, led by Dr Manoj Shah and Dr Manilal Dodhia.

Each parcel again had 46kg of food and hygiene items comprising 1 bale (24kgs) unga (maize) flour, 10kgs rice, 5kg red beans, 2kg green grams, 1 litre oil, 1kg sugar, 1kg salt, 1.6kg soap, 200g tea-leaves, 8 masks, 0.5 litres hand sanitizer and I packet of sanitary pads. Each parcel was designed to support a family of four for at least 1 month.

Here is a video showing the food being gathered and packed in a warehouse prior to the distributions: https://fb.watch/g-dDlMYIHN/.

2) £2,000 donated towards 67 similar parcels to families in Kangemi and Mathare slums, Nairobi in May and June 2021.

3) Almost £8,000 towards food distributions to 350+ organisations supporting street children, vulnerable families, orphanages, disabled people, slum areas via Visa Oshwal Community, Nairobi and TeamPankaj in 2020.

How We Helped

2. India – £7,500

1) £5,500 donated to provide Covid food relief to migrant labourers and vulnerable families in Pune and Ahmedabad

2) £2,000 towards purchase of 6 oxygen concentrators via MZ KZ Foundation (Hope4Smile) for use in India and Kenya

3. Nepal – £2,500

We donated towards an oxygen plant built at the Chhatrapati Free Clinic (Hospital) inNepal, that provides free services to the poor.

4. Syria, Yemen and South Sudan – £2,500

Refugees and vulnerable families via donations to the International Rescue Committee