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Hey everyone, we’re raising some funds for much needed school equipment in the SAFE project in Nepal! Help us reach our target by donating on our brand new chip in below! Every penny helps the kids have a better learning experience so empty your pockets if you can!

You Safers are all stars!

Lush news from our Masinagudi, India project about the progress of our current project out there – it’s all going great!

We were able to facilitate the building of a new computer room for a tribal school who want a better standard of education so that children can integrate with their wider society and enjoy better job prospects in the future. The building is now complete and is being used every day, where the children are learning literacy skills, writing, drawing,  and other basic IT skills.

We were also able to provide safe drinking water for everybody in the tribal schools that we work in, which exceed our expectations at the start of the partnership with MYWA. Initially we were going to install water purification tanks, but after some consideration it was decided to build new pipe systems from a larger source so that it would be more reliable and be able to affect more people positively. Our partners told us that the problems with safe water for so bad before, so having guaranteed water for all the children and staff at the schools is amazing.

Among other things, SAFE have also been able to employ new teachers at tribal schools, buy new shoes and uniforms for all pupils in the schools with which they partner with and provide other vital resources.

Thanks to all of you who have supported The SAFE Foundation this year, children in areas that are severely disadvantaged and out of the reach of mainstream charities have been able to improve their lives and standard of education this year. Give yourselves a MASSIVE pat on the back!

I am officially the bearer of good news! YEAH!

Last time when I asked you all who wanted to go to Ghana to help our Ghanaian partners and volunteers build a school one million trillion of you replied. The problem was we only had 6 places to fill, so we had to say sozra to a lorra peeps.

BUT, we’re asking the same question again so another 6 or 7 of you can have a crack at helping out and get all constructiony on us.

We want to send another group out on the 1st November for 2 weeks to help out on this fab project. It costs £150 a week to go and that fee will get you fed, watered, accommodated, kitted up with tools and pay for your internal to’ing and fro’ing.

The other best news in the world is that our Cambodia volunteering programme is OFFICIALLY OPEN and sorted and recruiting volunteers to go and get some Asia vibes.

SAFE are recruiting teaching assistants to help our Khmer teachers boost the learning outcomes of some disadvantaged children in Siem Reap province. This project costs £160 a week, is a three week placement (but you can stay longer if you want to do more), and gets you fed, accommodated and kitted for the job.

These are NON PROFIT programmes, as are all our volunteering opportunities. This means that ALL proceeds generated by your fees will fund charitable projects for disadvantaged kids in the country of your placement.

If you’re interested get in touch asap as places are already filling up.

lucy@thesafefoundation.co.uk

Blimey, we’ve got flippin’ lots of volunteering opportunities for all you lot these days. Not only abroady things, but some great summer action opportunities in the UK for you to offer your helping hands and get involved.

We are looking for some lovely, SAFE people who would kindly donate their summer love on the following dates;

September 9th – 13th

Get in touch if you have time and energy to spare on these dates, and we’ll give you all the info your beady little brains require!

caz@thesafefoundation.co.uk info@thesafefoundation.co.uk

The first pictures from one of our Ghana projects have come back to us and we’re SO super excited to see our kiddies playing on the equipment we were able to ship out earlier this year. The playground gets rotated around schools with no recreation facilities, (which means all of them in Kumasi!) and the rental monies earned goes towards our bigger project helping children with HIV and AIDS in the slum areas of the city.

BOOM!

Hey Safers!

Ok, I might have to keep this short and sweet (Asia t’internet connection being the reason), but its all good in The S.A.F.E. Foundation Cambodia project, where I am now with SAFE photog extroadinaire – Dan Green.

I have met with the director of our partner charity, the CCAHA and toured the schools that we support with your help. The schools are FAB! The kids are mega attentive and learning well. The teachers that we support are also doing great, teaching with big smiles on their faces and a lot of love in their heart!

There is still much to do here, and the next few days will consist of lots of meetings with Kourosh, our fantastic project manager, to fine tune elements of the project that need improving. The social issues that the CCAHA and SAFE are addressing are important in long term responses to disadvantage and with your help we really can do a lot to improve them.

Cambodia as a whole is unbelievable! The people are friendly, the scenery staggering and the culture historic and interesting.

For now, I’m signing off, I will try to write again and pictures from Dan will follow shortly!

Lucy x

Ok, so according to our usual calendar in this part of the world, its technically the wrong season to talk about chickens and eggs and such. However, ’tis the season to be jolly and give gifts to those we care about, and what better gift to give the families that we work with all over the world than a chicken or two!

Chickens don’t just mean Christmas din dins to people in developing countries, but also a continuous supply of protein (eggs), and a starting point to trade if they want to.

This year we want our supporters to buy a chicken for someone in one of our communities – maybe even two! (Or three! Or four! ). You’ll get a voucher saying that you’ve helped a family with your gift, and of course you’ll get our undying gratitude and love, which is simply invaluable.

If you want to make someone’s Christmas a special one, and make us clucking happy, please see our latest chip in to buy a chicken and add a note on your purchase telling us the best way to send you your voucher.

Love and safety.

Lucy and Caz are home sweet home after completing a field assignment in Ghana, which was fab! Great progress is being made on our projects in Kumasi, which we were lucky enough to see in action while we were there.

The SAFE Foundation donated 6 whiteboards to Asawasi Methodist school to improve both teaching and learning standards, and we helped make them and put them up on our trip. Photos coming soon!

We also completed our final assessments on a construction project we have out there – rebuilding Yasufiya school! Contrary to the previous plan of reworking the roof, the project has expanded to do the whole school because it is in such a poor state. The SAFE Foundation is recruiting a team of volunteers with a bit of construction experience, lots of enthusiasm and who are eager to get stuck in to some good old honest hard work!

If you’re interested in helping, please get in touch with lucy@thesafefoundation.co.uk

After our recent visit to our newest project in Kumasi, Ghana, we decided to help the community by getting a new roof for the school. The school name is Yasifiya School, Kumasi, and we’re trying to raise the £250 that will get them a new roof to stop all those drips getting in from the rain. Wet schoolbooks are not cool!
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