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HanDs aRoUnD tHe WoRLD seeks to help vulnerable children around the world, encouraging enthusiastic and well-prepared volunteers to offer practical help, skill-sharing, support and friendship.

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NEWSLETTER 50 FEBRUARY 2010

‘G iv ing a hand, not a handout’

“It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness”

ZAMBIA MONZE & CHISAMBA

i have just returned from another visit to Zambia. on meeting people back home in the UK, many ask me whether my visit was successful and some are interested in how i spent my time. this year i am pleased to say that i feel i achieved a lot. not that i have wasted my time in previous years, but it has sometimes been harder to identify where the progress has been.

one common feature of my visits is that i am always fully occupied. my days usually start soon after 6 am and rarely finish much before midnight! so, what occupied my time this year?

i am the world’s worst bird spotter – i have binoculars because otherwise i would see nothing! this year i came across a couple of extra bird books in the

Something different

Maluba School

house where i stayed in monze. i have been searching for a good book on birds of Zambia for years without success. What i found was a bird book produced by the Zambian ornithological society that identified all the birds that had been spotted in the country. so, after 7 years, i was able to identify a number of the beautiful birds that are seen around monze and when i visited Chisamba at the end of my stay, i discovered that moses, who is on the project management committee, is very active in the ornithological society.

one weekend, i was aware of great excitement in the town. it was the monze Rally. 15 sports cars – some that had travelled from Zimbabwe - roared around the town, entertaining the crowds. i was able to join the local people and enjoy the atmosphere – and get covered in dust!

not surprisingly, after 7 visits and more than a year and a half spent in Zambia, i feel quite comfortable in the country. i sometimes forget that i look different to most people around me! so it can be a surprise to me when i am identified as a visitor. this happens regularly when i attend a church service. it is only on reflection

The Monze Rally

ZAMBIA MONZE & CHISAMBA

that i realise that i am the only ‘white’ person in the congregation. i am now used to jumping on local buses where i rarely see another ‘white’ face. However, going into a small bar – like the one at the Chisamba Guest House - was a little daunting, as it would be in a similar intimate bar in england. Having plucked up the courage, i soon became a ‘regular’ though, and sondash would introduce me along with the other ‘regulars’ to the visitors.

in the past, i have managed to go three months or more without watching any television. this year i happened to be at my ‘local’ in Chisamba to watch Ghana win the under 20s World Cup and nigeria win the under 17s semi-final. along with everyone else in the place, i was supporting africa. since my son Paul spent a few months in Ghana and my son-in-law comes from nigeria, i had additional reasons to give my support.

i have always recognised that my work in Zambia is to be with people and to try to get to know them. enjoying a football match, a motor rally, joining people in prayer or spending a couple of hours pressed tightly against their bodies in a minibus is all part of building that relationship. it all helps me to recognise real people who in most ways are no different from me, but due to circumstances sometimes find themselves facing difficulties that i never have to experience.

this year i have come to understand a bit more about the issues and difficulties being faced by my friends in Zambia and my relationships have developed. i suspect that my ability to support

local projects increases in proportion to how much i learn during my visits. i have learnt a lot this year and i believe that this is reflected in the progress i have made. i am particularly pleased to see people finding other sources of support and the value of their projects being recognised locally.

Real success will be when i am no longer needed to provide support, but continue to be welcomed as a good friend – it is particularly pleasing that my Zambian friends tell me the same thing.

VIM Vocational Training Centre

The Latest from Monzethough i have now been home for a little over 2 months, i keep in regular contact with friends in monze. it is now the rainy season, though in monze itself the rains have been patchy with a break of a couple of weeks when temperatures soared to 36 or 37 C. However, it seems that the crops are still likely to be good. the new school year has started and maluba/PiZZ has an additional class of students. the school's football and netball pitches are in use and plans are going ahead to purchase additional land for possible further development. During my last visit it was also good to see the Vim project running well. though mainly concentrating on the academic side, a carpenter is now employed to provide extra training. a number of children who wouldn't usually be able to go to secondary school are being educated at Vim to at least grade 11 (this will probably be extended to grade 12 – the final year of secondary school).

Chris Barrell

UGANDA GHANA ZAMBIA BENIN KENYA INDIA SWAZILAND BRAZIL UNITEDKINGDOM

SUB-SAHARANAFRICA WORLD

GNI per capita (US$) 340 590 800 570 680 950 2580 5910 42740 1109 8633

life expectancy at birth 51 60 42 55 53 64 40 71 79 50 68

under-5 mortality rate 1990 175 122 163 185 97 117 96 60 9 188 93

under-5 mortality rate 2007 130 115 170 123 121 72 91 22 6 148 68

infant mortality rate (under 1) 1990 106 75 99 111 64 83 70 50 8 109 64

infant mortality rate (under 1) 2007 82 73 103 78 80 54 66 20 5 89 47

primary school enrolment (%) 82 72 57 67 76 83 84 94 98 64 85

adult HIV+ rate[%] 5 2 15 1 7 0.3 26 1 0.2 5 0.8

orphaned children 2.5 million 1.1 million 1.1 million 340,000 2.5 million 25 million 96,000 3.2 million 520,00047.5 million

(12 million from AIDS)

145 million(15 million from

AIDS)

people living with HIV 950,000 275,000 1.3 million 70,000 2 million 3 million 200,000 800,000 150,000 22 million 35 million

total population 31 million 23 million 12 million 9 million 37 million 1170 million 1 million 192 million 61 million 770 million 6655 million

THE TIMES, ARE THEY A CHANGIN’?

Visiting africa recently, at the end of the year in which we have been celebrating 15 years of

HatW, i fell to wondering just how things have changed during those years.

Certainly many people are still poorly nourished, have very inadequate water for the most basic

of everyday needs, survive on less than 2 dollars a day, and send their children at best to schools

where the quality of education is shamefully low.

it is also evident that Land Rovers and Peugeots have completely succumbed to toyota 4x4

dominance in africa; meanwhile potholes are generally much smaller and less common, especially

in the capital cities. mains electricity is becoming much more widespread, if prone to frequent

outages (often planned and every evening), and television sets in most villages and shanty towns

are now common.

some of the most dramatic and perhaps surprising rises have been the widespread fanatical

and knowledgeable support of UK football – with Chelsea, arsenal, Liverpool and man U shirts

everywhere - and the phenomenal uptake of mobile phones (of which all adults seem to have at

least one) and their associated paraphernalia, such as ubiquitous roadside shacks selling sim and

top-up cards and offering solar charging.

UGANDA GHANA ZAMBIA BENIN KENYA INDIA SWAZILAND BRAZIL UNITEDKINGDOM

SUB-SAHARANAFRICA WORLD

GNI per capita (US$) 340 590 800 570 680 950 2580 5910 42740 1109 8633

life expectancy at birth 51 60 42 55 53 64 40 71 79 50 68

under-5 mortality rate 1990 175 122 163 185 97 117 96 60 9 188 93

under-5 mortality rate 2007 130 115 170 123 121 72 91 22 6 148 68

infant mortality rate (under 1) 1990 106 75 99 111 64 83 70 50 8 109 64

infant mortality rate (under 1) 2007 82 73 103 78 80 54 66 20 5 89 47

primary school enrolment (%) 82 72 57 67 76 83 84 94 98 64 85

adult HIV+ rate[%] 5 2 15 1 7 0.3 26 1 0.2 5 0.8

orphaned children 2.5 million 1.1 million 1.1 million 340,000 2.5 million 25 million 96,000 3.2 million 520,00047.5 million

(12 million from AIDS)

145 million(15 million from

AIDS)

people living with HIV 950,000 275,000 1.3 million 70,000 2 million 3 million 200,000 800,000 150,000 22 million 35 million

total population 31 million 23 million 12 million 9 million 37 million 1170 million 1 million 192 million 61 million 770 million 6655 million

Of course in our complex world, it is difficult to assess statistics accurately, but I chose to look at

some UNICEF figures (‘The State of the World’s Children 2009’) in relation to the countries where

we work or have worked.

india and Brazil pose particular interpretation problems due to the wide variations in their split

societies, and very often the poor appear little changed, as the rich have become richer. some

of the more uniform countries in sub-saharan africa perhaps show a clearer picture, although

again there is much variation in the lives of urban and rural people, both mainly still very poor in

comparison with other parts of the world.

Please take a little time not just to read the table below, but to think through the implications of

the facts as you digest them…

note for instance that the under-5 mortality rate in Kenya has worsened; that almost 10% of the

populations of Zambia and swaziland are orphaned children; that more than half the people living

with HiV in the world and 80% of the world’s 15 million aiDs orphans are in africa. and that the

average income per person in sub-saharan africa today is Us $1100 a year (or $3 a day), compared

to $43000 ($118 a day) in the UK and $8600 ($23 a day) in the world as a whole. Whatever happened

to making poverty history? David Steiner

PLEASE JOIN HANDS WITH US! WANT TO GIVE A HAND? GIVE A HAND WEEK – JUNE 12th - 19th

it would be nice to think that the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children around the world were now all being met, but the sad reality is that there is still a lot of work for HanDs aRoUnD tHe WoRLD volunteers and staff to do. it would also be nice if it didn’t cost money to help these children, but it does. some of the costs are obvious - if there is a classroom to be built then someone must pay for the materials required. there are also some less obvious, but necessary costs involved in keeping an organisation like HanDs aRoUnD tHe WoRLD functioning. We need to meet our statutory obligations with regard to insurance and record keeping, we need phones and computers, paper and stamps. in addition, there are things we want to do as a responsible organisation to ensure that we are doing the best we can with the money you give to help the children. We want to follow up and evaluate the benefits of projects, and we aim to orientate and support our volunteers to make sure that they have the beneficially life-changing experience that we hope for.

some might say fundraising can be a daunting and arduous task, but we believe it should be fun! if you agree, then we would like your help with Give a Hand Week 2009.

We are looking for 10 enthusiastic and motivated co-ordinators to commit to raising £1000 each towards our core costs. Could you, with the help of others, organise themed events in your area during that week? We want the events to be fun for all concerned, and to have a ‘hands’ theme. We have growing lists of event ideas and area co-ordinators. if you think that you too could help, then please contact Joanna, who will be delighted to send you an information pack and will pass your name on to me. i will then endeavour to give you the support you need to succeed in the task and enjoy doing it.

maybe you want to help, but don’t want that level of commitment – talk to us - perhaps you would like to be part of a fundraising team, or would be happier with the idea of raising £500. there are lots of possibilities. We are waiting to hear from YoU! We really do need your help.

thank you.

Lynda Steiner, Give a Hand Week Co-ordinator

BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR CHILDREN

We are currently looking for volunteers to join projects in october 2010 and early 2011: JeRseY to mUKo, RWanDaHelping to build classrooms for Junior secondary pupils at muko school in october 2010. this will be our first group project to Rwanda, working with an organisation called RsVP, set up by a Rwandan couple to support education in the south of the country. BRistoL to ZUmBo, UGanDaHelping to build classrooms at Zumbo Primary school in January 2011. this school is near to ogenda High school for Girls, which two HatW teams will visit in 2010. the Catholic Clifton Diocese in Bristol has a long-standing link with nebbi District, where Zumbo school is located. CaRDiFF to atHi, KenYaa follow-on project to the one that will go to athi school in July of this year and the third HatW project at the school, where disabled children are integrated into a mainstream primary school and board during the week. the team will help complete a dining facility. To receive information and an application form for any of these projects, please contact Joanna.

Hand in Hand Child Sponsorship Scheme

as i write this, i am about to return to sarberia, West Bengal. When i was there in november 2008 there were children working in the fields next to the school, instead of benefiting from an education. so it is with a happy heart that i return with sponsors for two children; two who will now be given a life ticket, an entry into a better future, an escape from the drudgery of the fields.

We now have 8 sponsors for children in africa and india, but as you can imagine there are many, many more who would benefit from YoUR sponsorship.

our host in india is mr naskar, who was sponsored fifty years ago and now has made it his mission in life to educate a whole village. Wouldn’t you like to make a similar impact on a child’s life?

For information on sponsoring a child, please email me (i’m back from india on 1st march) – tessmolloy@hotmail.com

Tess Molloy, Hand in Hand Co-ordinator

UGANDA SIRIBA

viable in the future we needed to start the process of sustainability and self-funding. Luckily, both the Bishop of masindi and the local district councillor are interested in supporting it.

Food was more than adequate. Vegetables came from the fields or market, meat, mainly chicken, was frequent; noisy cockerels beware!!

the area where we were staying is not on the tourist map, so we were a fascination to all around us. Virtually everyone would say hello and shake your hand; parents would introduce their children, many of whom would hide or cry as this white-skinned stranger approached. social greeting is very important; we realised that even on the roads when the vans and lorries madly flashed lights at each other it was not out of anger, as is so often the case here, but by way of greeting! People smiled; no long faces walking around permanently plugged into i-pods! that is not to say that they don’t have access to technology. the mobile phone is everywhere and reception is good across most of

A Month in Uganda and a Pinhole Camera

the object of our trip was to finish building the Vocational training Centre that had been started in 2008 in the grounds of a school at siriba in the masindi District. the idea of the Vocational training Centre is to offer training in carpentry and tailoring to older disadvantaged children who have either fallen out of the primary education system or are unable to go on to secondary education, which currently has to be paid for. a lack of running water and electricity is normal life here. these children have bigger problems, having lost parents either to the internal fighting that had been raging to the north or to aiDs.

We travelled north from entebbe airport via the capital, Kampala, and it was obvious from the first village that we drove through that we were in a very inquisitive and friendly country. everyone would turn and wave. When we stopped, people would come up and shake hands and speak with us. on our arrival at siriba there was a welcoming committee waiting for us in the shade of a mango tree that doubles up as the staff Room. songs were sung and handshakes all round; but this was only the short version of the 5 hour welcoming ‘event’ that would take place the next day!

We worked for 6 days of the week and had many invites to go to church on sundays. there was the physical work of mixing cement and fetching water from ½ a mile away, but we realised that for this project to remain

Will we go back? Probably, with the aim of doing something to help with local sustainability.

and the pinhole camera? our mud hut had a door and a very small window. First thing in the morning we noticed that as someone walked past our hut, their up-side-down image was displayed on the side of the mosquito net over our bed. the small window was the pinhole and we were in the camera!

Neil Marsh & Shane Lethem

Water, water!

moses is a popular name in Uganda, where church and the bible are so central to many people’s lives – so we added prefixes to help us differentiate! there was “shirt moses”, one of the school deputies whose wife makes wonderfully colourful shirts; “environment moses”, who teaches science and supervises

africa, and satellite tV means that everyone knows how the top UK soccer clubs are doing! everybody wanted to have their photo taken too!

so, what did we achieve? the structure is finished and the last windows were due to be put in the day after we left, so the building is secure and can be used, and sustainability is on the local agenda. We made a lot of friends and made a difference for many of them.

Was it worth it? Yes. You can’t help everyone, but you can try to make a difference for some.

the children to take care of the school grounds (including planting trees as part of a national climate change initiative). and then there’s “Water moses” (pictured), one of the local volunteers who worked with us on the vocational training centre. Water moses is typical of many youngsters – committed to supporting his family while also wanting to keep up with his studies. to do so, he makes money by fetching water from local boreholes and delivering to people in the community for just a few pence per jerrycan – so the more cans the better! moses routinely put at least 4 – sometimes 8 - cans on his bike (which clearly had stronger tyres than mine!), while we struggled to carry just one or use a wheelbarrow to transport 3. But as the borehole on the school playground had dried up, one of our main duties was indeed to provide a constant supply of water for mixing cement. Good exercise in the heat, and rather dispiriting when you’ve nearly made it up the hill – 2 of us pushing and pulling the wheel barrow – and moses flies past on his bike loaded with full cans!

We left siriba hoping that repair of the borehole remains a priority for Bishop stanley of masindi who visited siriba twice while we were there to show his support for the project. and that Water moses and other youngsters like him will benefit from the HatW sponsorship scheme. Certainly i am reminded of the challenge of water in daily life in Uganda when i turn the

tap on (and then quickly off!) to clean my teeth every evening.

Jenny Wiles (Team Leader)

Little Learners

Classrooms built for 40-50 children routinely accommodate 150 or more in schools in Uganda, so paintwork soon gets dirty, and plaster and floors damaged. While waiting for the local electricity supply to be restored, so that doors and windows for the new vocational building could be made and installed, we looked around for other ways to help out at the school. We asked the Headteacher and his management Committee if we could clean up the existing classrooms – not surprisingly, they said yes! the favourite Ugandan washing powder (nomi – related to omo?!) proved invaluable for scrubbing off the layers of grime, and the local trading centre had plentiful supplies of white and grey paint. But best of all, we had an army of helpers – pupils, teachers and members of the school Pta – who scrubbed, painted, swept or just watched as the classrooms were transformed. Here are 2 of the army of helpers – i hope they and their teachers are enjoying their revitalised learning environment as much as we enjoyed their company!

Jenny Wiles (Team Leader)

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tailoring training programme. althurs obolgiwu, the Head, is very happy; the Bishop is keen to help. ‘tools for self Reliance’ has provided some tools for us to send. there is much to do to ensure that this project delivers consistently and that the young people truly benefit. Let’s stick with it, we’re in this together!

With albert aure’s help, i visited ogenda High school for Girls, where our next group is helping to build classrooms overlooking the nile, and

owilo school where a classroom project in 2005 had to be undertaken just by the local team at the last minute because of the worsening security situation in the area at the time. now things are much more settled and owilo is agitating for a ‘proper project with a team of visitors’. Bishop alphonse

met us in Goli with a broad encouraging smile, to talk about these and Zumbo school, one for the future. albert, at his aluka secondary school,

An Enjoyable Trip

as Francis our driver dodged the potholes, his mobile rang and soon he was animatedly discussing the Liverpool game last night. “What about torres’ injury? and Gerrard’s goal!”

Welcome to Africa 2009!

“We have no cement because of all the stadiums they are building in south africa, but hey, Ghana will win this time. or maybe Cote d’ivoire. You like Drogba?” mtn (mobile phone) hoardings everywhere advertise their sponsorship of the 2010 World Cup.

maybe the euphoria surrounding Barack obama’s win has subsided a little, but there certainly is a feeling that “this is now our time, our chance”.

i greatly enjoyed my 3 week trip to Uganda, Rwanda and Zambia in october. is ‘enjoyed’ the right word? i was challenged, inspired, encouraged, upset, frustrated – all of these at times, but left with a warm feeling of hope and optimism.

it was lovely to meet old friends and hear how much they appreciate the way that HatW works – the personal touch, the family feel, the ongoing links, the new visitors spending time with them. they look forward to visits and are proud to show what they have been able to achieve with a bit of support and encouragement. they ask about team members by name, clearly and fondly remembering each:

“he was always joking”, “the children really loved her”, “we were amazed how he could work hard” - ‘Giving a hand, not a handout’…

Heading for the north-west corner of Uganda, siriba school was the first stop. the vocational training centre looks just about finished, but for a coat of paint, and there’s a buzz in the air – the community is enthusiastically working to develop the carpentry and

UGANDA, RWANDA, ZAMBIA

Aluka HostelChair made by Siriba students

showed me the girls’ hostel which two HatW teams helped build in 2003 and 2005. it is well used, and the girls were keen to tell me how much they appreciate the facility – not just those who board, but others seeking a quiet place to work. encouraging girls to stay on at school is such a vital task.

and suddenly it was time to move on, back by intercity coach to Kampala and entebbe (watching endless nigerian soap fables on tV! – very dramatic stories reminiscent of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’). Plane to Kigali and a different world.

Rwanda still lives very much in the shadow of the 1994 genocide, and the gruesome memorial museum was on the itinerary of the small group from scotland i was accompanying. the carefully-planned nature of the ethnic cleansing was particularly hard to stomach, as were the thousands of cracked-open skulls. Were the Belgian colonisers and their divide-and-rule policy responsible for creating the atmosphere which led ultimately to the holocaust? or should we blame the

hands that held the machetes? Where does the buck stop??

this country is trying hard to rise from the tragedy of its past and is keen to show the world a new face. it has just become anglophone and joined the Commonwealth. We achieved two punctures and an unscheduled overnight guesthouse stop whilst travelling along very pot-holed roads to the stunningly beautiful Lake Kivu, near which i hope we

will be able to send a team to help the development of muko school in Bugarama in 2010. it’s a large primary school now adding a middle school of more than a thousand pupils. naturally, they need many more classrooms to help the much increased number of children now able to access schooling for the first time. the journey back to Kigali was on a midi-bus, which seemed much better able to soak up the bumps

Pupils at Owilo School

Classroom at Ogenda School

Muko School, Rwanda

and holes in the road through the chimpanzee forest; and then my antisocially-timed 3am flight took me on to nairobi and then Lusaka.

Zambia in october is very hot and humid, but the people are very friendly and welcoming. none more so than Father timothy Lubunda (previously working with us at Kaliyangile in Chisamba) and Chris Barrell (our man in monze, who has now also taken an interest in Kaliyangile). Father tim showed me the new training project where he is working in Lusaka, possibly a co-operative venture for us in the future. Kevin Leech is a good friend and a keen supporter of the work of HatW in Zambia and he joined us from London the following morning, going on to visit the training centre at Kaliyangile. His enthusiasm for man United always brings a smile to our discussions! it was good to meet Godfrey Chungu and his team again, though sadly they told us much about the difficulties they have faced since the untimely death of Joshua the manager. a new manager has now just been appointed, and the future is

looking much brighter. i am so grateful to those supporters who have stuck with us, and are willing to help us make a difference in the lives of the children coming for training.

and so on to monze, almost four hours south. sadly the Golden Pillow Lodge (with its back-up generator) was full - so we arrived at our guest house in the early evening, a power cut having been specially arranged to coincide with sundown! Kevin got locked in his bedroom, but that’s another story…

mrs sianga was very pleased to see us, and we delighted to see her, after what has been a

particularly difficult year. she is still looking after the welfare of huge numbers of children, as well as administering a supplementary-feeding programme and coping with the two small maluba schools. the kids put on a song and dance show for us; we met orphaned brothers samson and alick again, and marvelled at their happy smiling faces and how they have developed over the last 4 years since they were bereaved by aiDs… there is a lot of good work going on with the children there! We then visited Vim, started with the help of one of our teams in 2005, and now a self-sustaining small upper school and vocational training centre. mrs Chiiya and her team have really brought it all together, a delight to see - with 30 of the 120 children enrolled being from particularly disadvantaged backgrounds, and supported by the fees from the others. Hopefully our new child sponsorship scheme will enable more young people completing maluba to move on to training at Vim.

my trip was coming to an end, and after returning to Lusaka, i was able to go with austin Daka to visit some of the community projects which he is supporting in eastern Province, beyond Chipata. He hopes we will send volunteers there before long – and so do i! on the way, we called in to st Francis Hospital at Katete where in many senses, for me, it all began when I worked there for a time in 1992-3. HatW has sent many there over the years – midwives, doctors, sonographer, engineer and pharmacist - and we are now involved with a major engineering project adding an ecologically-sound bio-digester system to solve the hospital’s sewage problems, thereby hopefully helping the hospital to continue its wonderful work.

Kevin and Samson

St Francis Hospital

A prayer from Africa Creator God,Give us a heart for simple things:love and laughterbread and winetales and dreams.Fill our liveswith green and growing hope:make us a people of justicewhose song is alleluiaand whose name breathes love.

Returning home (by the most economical route which, strangely, turned out to be via Lilongwe in malawi and Johannesburg!) i had the chance to think about how HatW has grown, ponder some of the ways we have been able to give a hand over the years, and reflect on the wonderful people i feel privileged to have met along the way. an enjoyable trip indeed.

David Steiner

A poem about orphansneither father nor mother have i, but i struggle on my own and have food! Food! Food!

neither relatives nor friends have i, but i struggle on my own and have medicine! medicine! medicine!

neither light nor darkness have i, but i struggle on my own and i have shelter! shelter! shelter!

neither brothers nor sisters have i, but i struggle on my own and have clothes! Clothes! Clothes!

i master everything now, for i can make tables, dressers, chairs, cupboards, benches, desksand many others.

may almighty God bless Hands around the World. thank You.

For God and my country.

Written by Moses, Performed by Robert Okello to the group visiting Siriba School

Poem by Ngeirothum Maliki at Owilo Primary School

(performed for David Steiner during his recent visit to the school)

Hands around the World,Hands around the World,How i love you.

Hands around the World,Hands around the World,You have changed me from ugly to beauty.

Hands around the World,Hands around the World,You have made me comfortable in class.

Hands around the World,Hands around the World,now i am safe from intruders.

Hands around the World,Hands around the World,When people pass by, they admire me, because of you.

Hands around the World,Hands around the World,Where are you now?Please! Come, come back again.

Very best wishes for a speedy recovery from all at HATW to Melchizedek Ouma, director of the Meru North Disability Community Centre in Maua, Kenya. Melchizedek recently fell and broke his left leg and has now had successful surgery to put two metal screws in the knee. He tells us that he is making good progress and will soon be back at work.

HATW PROJECTS

GROUP PROJECTS 2010 (Other possible projects remain to be confirmed)

GROUP PROJECTS 2008 cont...

MONMOUTHSHIRE TO OGENDA, UGANDA (Jan/Feb) Build classrooms in girls’ secondary school

UK-WIDE TO SIRIBA, UGANDA (January)Build village vocational training centre

GLOUCESTERSHIRE TO SARBERIA, INDIA(Feb) Help at school / vocational training centre

LANCASHIRE TO NYUMBANI, KENYA (June)Build homes in orphans’ eco-village

MONMOUTHSHIRE TO OGENDA, UGANDA (Jul/aug) Build classrooms in girls’ secondary school

GLOUCESTERSHIRE TO MONZE, ZAMBIA (august) Develop maluba orphans’ school

HEREFORDSHIRE TO KISUMU, KENYA (Jul/aug)Build carpentry workshop for disadvantaged children

KALIYANGILE, CHISAMBA, ZAMBIA (september) Build classroom and workshop, phase 3

CARDIFF TO ATHI, KENYA (Jul/aug) Build wheelchair-friendly boarding school dining facilities

OXFORD AREA TO SARBERIA, INDIA (nov/Dec) Build vocational training centre / classrooms

JERSEY TO MUKO, RWANDA (oct) Build classrooms at a junior secondary school

SKILLED VOLUNTEERS 2009 - 2010 (Other possible volunteers to be confirmed)

GROUP PROJECTS 2009KENYA Ultrasonographer, physiotherapists, bereavement counselling trainer

LANCASHIRE TO DOGBA, BENIN (Feb/march) Rebuild flood-damaged school, phase 2

BENIN engineer and project development worker

BRISTOL TO AKOMADAN, GHANA (march) Build classrooms at orphans’ centre, phase 4

ZAMBIA engineer, administrator, midwife

MONMOUTHSHIRE TO NYUMBANI, KENYA (June/July) Build classrooms in orphans’ eco-village

GHANAteachers

HERTFORDSHIRE TO SIRIBA, UGANDA (august/september) Build at school / vocational training centre, phase 2

SKILLED VOLUNTEERS 2008

GROUP PROJECTS 2008 ZAMBIA engineer, doctors, administrator, agriculture adviser

JERSEY TO MOSSORO, BRAZIL (January)Build classrooms for favela children

SWAZILAND Health educator

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