New TrunkAid

TrunkAid aims to help people in south east Asia by finding sponsors to support projects run by people who live in and understand the communities.

You may not have cash to donate but you may have skills to offer. Maybe you are an electrician, plumber, builder, physiotherapist, doctor, nurse, teacher, etc. and can spare a few weeks for a 'holiday'. You could make a huge difference to people's lives.

When you give money to charity do you know what happens to it, what it is used for or who actually benefits from it? At TrunkAid we try to make charitable organisations more accountable for how they spend your money. People running the projects we promote will send reports and photographs to show how your money is being spent. You can contact the organisers directly and you can even visit the projects. This way we believe that more of your money will be spent on what you want it to be spent on rather than disappearing on administrative costs.

 

Although TrunkAid is focusing on SE Asia we still have some projects in Africa which are ongoing....

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Uganda - pigs

Another project where people are aiming to provide their own funding is Literacy Aid Uganda. We are helping to set up a piggery

 

 

     

 

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Kenya - self sufficiency

We are pleased to say that students from Island School in Hong Kong raised the money to help set up a small scale poultry enterprise to provide an income for the Christian Hope orphanage in Eldoret.

     

     

 

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Burma - Thanks

Many thanks to those who contributed to our Burma appeal. The money raised went to a group called IDE (http://www.ideorg.org/). Here's a brief report they sent:

Oh I wish I had the time to write about all that is happening these days in Yangon and the Ayeyarwaddy Delta. We have lots of staff coming back and forth and the stories they tell are just heartbreaking. The conditions are unspeakable… three weeks after the cyclone swept across the delta. We are reaching villages, mostly by small boat, down swollen rivers or across flooded fields. So many people are just hovering in makeshift shelters. We are providing plastic tarps, over 14,000 families at last count (that was last week) and over 1,000 clean water systems. These are two items that everyone is really appreciative of. So many people who get a tarp say they will now be able to get a good nights sleep – protected from the rain.

We are now mobilizing for the immediate need to get rice farming going again. Many (over 150,000 ) farm families not in the absolute direct path of the cyclone, lost their rice seed for the monsoon season that begins 1 June. Without seed, they won’t be able to grow rice… which will mean they won’t have food or income starting in October. So it’s a race against time to help these farmers out. We’ll provide rice seed and some food to over 20,000 families (over 100,000 people).

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Project roundup

See below for brief summaries of some of the projects that need support:

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