Making it Tangible
I just had a meeting with Paul, a good friend who works for Global Care in Coventry. I went to Bangladesh with Paul last year and we were talking about the ongoing work there and how the orphanage and preschool are doing since the founder, John Bose, was killed with his wife in a road accident earlier this year.
It was great to hear how the team there, led by John’s brother, have pulled together. Projects such as the water harvesting system have gone ahead and the kids look great.
We got on to talking about Paul’s latest trip to Ethiopia and the needs they have there. Ethiopia is a poor country, as we’ve seen in the news so often, it’s prone to drought and famine. In the rural communities they can get on with life but when a famine hits they have no resilience. The greatest need is to equip and educate the people there and enable them to look after themselves when the inevitable hard times hit.
When I went to Bangladesh it was easy for me to raise money and awareness for the school and orphanage there. They needed a fish farm. We bought one. It’s tangible. Ethiopia is going to be much harder.
There is no ‘one big thing’. It’s small projects like self help and micro finance groups. Smaller resources such as motorbikes to get about on between the isolated villages.
So this is the plan. In the next few weeks we’ll be setting up a fund for Global Care’s work in Ethiopia. Over the next 12 months we want to raise £3000 for that fund and we really need your support.
You were fantastic when we started with Bangladesh in 2008 and together we’ve made a huge difference to the lives of over one hundred children and their families. We can do that again. Well add more to this site over the coming weeks.
Thanks so much
rob
