2006/2007

Where Your Money Has Gone

           

During 2007 the charity paid out the sum of £196,130 in grants.

This year our receipts from Gift Aid was £9,515.81 for the year 2005. A further figure of approximately £15,000.00 for the following 12-month period to December 2006 is estimated as being able to be reclaimed for this current year.

           

Asia

 

India & Pakistan

We made further grants of £6,000.00 and £8,500.00 to Bishop Coutts in Faisalabad in Pakistan to support the people made homeless by the severe flooding in that area. 

We also made an additional grant of £8500.00 to Bishop Celestine of Jammu Diocese in India to help with the re-housing project after localised flooding.

           

Soroti

 

Emergency Grant for Flood Relief  

Following news of flooding in Soroti Diocese, we launched an appeal to help the people who were affected by the disaster in Soroti District, Eastern Uganda. We raised £60,000.00 which was passed to them to assist those in need.

           

Africa

  Boreholes

We started a major project to provide 30 new deep Bore Holes in the district of Karamoja, Eastern Uganda. The first stage of this project is nearing completion at a cost of £50,000.00 and we hope to complete the next stage this current year.

           

East Africa

 

Following requests by Fr Bernard Phelan, we have also made several smaller grants, equally important in development terms to the following:

         
    Soroti Diocese Urgent Medical Supplies   £98.00
    Sponsored Children’s Education   £2,500.00
    Bukedea Catechists' Bicycles   £9,796.00
    Sr Cresentia Study Books   £73.73
    Kidetok Uganda (Rose)   £150.00
    Sindh Diocese Fr J Mc Auley Homeless Rebuilding   £4,641.00
    Kidetok Parish Catechist Bikes   £3,940.00
    St Theresa Sec School Bukedea, Uganda. Rebuild Kitchen   £2,000.00
    Outstation forty year  Anniversary project Kotido Church   £12,000.00
    Sr.Proscovia to Refurbish Kidetok Health Centre   £3,000.00
    Village Midwives training in Karamoja Dr.Sally Graham   £2,000.00
    St Theresa Sec School Computer Equipment   £920.00
    Odwe Oduk Peoples Tech Bukedea   £920.00
    Motor Cycles for Priests in Kotido Diocese Uganda   £10,000.00
    Parish of Payanga Solar Pump and Panels for Borehole   £4,500.00
    Malindi Diocese Brendan Carden Bore   £3,500.00
    Bicycles Formation Centre Kidetok   £1,150.00
         

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Date of Last Update

   

28/08/2008