WORLD AID FOUNDATION
PO BOX 786
ROTHERHAM
SOUTH YORKSHIRE
S60 4WU
Telephone: 01709 544445
Email: enquiries@worldaid.org.uk
Charity Registration No: 1103337

 

LATEST NEWS

Fast Opening Charity Evening with Lord Nazir Ahmed

Lord Nazir Ahmed invites you to attend an Fast / Iftari charity dinner evening in aid of the East Africa Famine Appeal :  

SUNDAY 12th AUGUST 2012, at 7.30pm 

ORIENT EXPRESS RESTAURANT, ROTHERHAM

Tickets are available from :

Bab-E-Islam  Attercliffe Sheffield

Humza Jewellers Wellgate, Rotherham

Cost £10 each

So come along and Open your fast with Lord Nazir Ahmed. There will be a auction at this event too.
So if you want to grab a superb bargain and make a difference then please come along!
Please circulate the details of the programme to all colleagues, friends and families.
We look forward to seeing you on the day.

 

EAST AFRICA FAMINE CRISIS 2012

EMERGENCY APPEAL

In the Horn of Africa frequent drought episodes occur, we are now facing one of the worst to date.  It is a vicious circle of hunger, ill-health and poverty. Lack of water and population displacements, which result in precarious sanitation, further increase the risk of communicable diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, diarrhoea, acute respiratory infections and measles. Outbreaks of acute watery diarrhoea and measles have already been reported in Djibouti and Ethiopia. The effects of the drought are also aggravated by weak health care systems, with limited human resources and medical supplies and low immunization coverage. In Somalia, child health is among the worst in the world. In the first half of 2011, at least three Somali children died of malnutrition every day. In the current 2012 crisis, the main objective is to avoid excess death from malnutrition and infectious diseases among the most severely affected communities in these countries affected by the drought. has been described as the worst drought in over half a century. Around 4 million children in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance as well as the adult population. In Somalia, where the drought is compounded by the escalating conflict, thousands of people have fled to the neighbouring countries of Ethiopia and Kenya, where many of them are living in overcrowded camps without adequate health care, clean water or proper sanitation. Malnutrition rates are soaring, and the low vaccination coverage of children is leading to concerns over possible communicable disease outbreaks.
WorldAid’s relief mission to Ethiopia will concentrate on a working at grassroots level  directly at camps with the effected children. We will be setting-up a temporary camp carrying out health assessments,  vaccinating, which will cover polio and measles and include vitamin A supplements and deworming tablets and furthermore trying to accommodate the need of each camp area, that consisting of providing basics such as food and clean drinking water.We will as always, provide you with a fully comprehensive day to day report on our return from Ethiopia, detailing the mission.

So PLEASE donate what ever you can afford to help us with our appeal.

Thank You for your support !!!

Total raised so far for the East Africa Famine Appeal:

£30,105.23p

Please do contact us, if you have any fund raising ideas to help us with the East Africa appeal.

 

 

If you wish to donate funds for the most recent floods once again that have damaged Pakistan during november 2011, to help the victims please contact us on 01709 544445. Funds raised for these will floods will be utilised in the Sind province during our follow-up mission to the original floods of last year, as we are awaiting project completion that we commenced in 2010. If you have a particular request of providing to the victims contact us and we will try an assist if we are able to and if it is viable.

New Homes Construction project for the Pakistan flood victims now completed : Thank you to your heartfelt donations. We have now completed 36 x new houses in the village of Gais Balla district Riakot near Gilgit. Thank you for your patience.

 

Update on Construction project in village Tatu near Gilgit : This is currently being delayed due to continuous landslide on-route to the village Tatu, as this is the only route from the outside world to the village via the narrow mountainous single road, so there is no other way of getting the building materials to this village. The small bridge which you can view below has just been being built to resolve this issue and was opened for use on the 27th July 2011. So we can now commence our construction project in village Tatu.

Commencement of New Tatu School, current phase 1 of building, foundations completed, please stay posted for updates. Thank you for your patience.

Update on Construction projects in Neelum Valley commencement of girls primary school, phase 1 foundations.

Neelam Valley Womens & childrens community centre commencement phase 1 foundations completed. Building phase 2 now also completed. Thank you for your patience, stay posted for updates.

Project Completion Flood Mission Pakistan ... WorldAid are planning a follow-up mission ASAP, on completion of the construction projects that were commenced after our research/survey and emergency food-drop, during "Mission Pakistan 2010". This mission has been re-scheduled due to the construction projects being incomplete due to the severe weather conditions in these regions that have delayed work and also due to infastructure problems such as the Tatu bridge being constructed. We look forward to supplying you with a follow-up comprehensive report of our mission on our return...... please stay posted for more details …..

Total raised so for the Pakistan Flood Appeal with

donations still trickling in :

£86,183.34p

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT HAS SUPPORTED THIS APPEAL, OUR MISSIONS WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT YOUR CONTINUING SUPPORT !!!

 

More Updates & News :

Ultimate Fitness Challenge with Athlete Ray Matthews December 2011

Thursday 15 December prompt start at 11.30am, Energie Gym, Parkgate, Rotherham.
Take part in a 15 round Boxing work out, and survive the ultimate challenge with Ray Matthews. The program will start with a short description of the challenge, and technique instructions, followed by a warm up, and then the first 7 rounds of 3 min per round. The interval will consist of a metabolic work out, working from a 2min up to 5min intensity with a one min rest between. The challenge will finish off with a further 7 rounds of 3 min per round, a warm down. Everyone welcome all abilities and fitness levels. Take part and Amaze yourselves. All funds raised will be for the East Africa Appeal. For details contact 01709 719900. Thank you for your support.

 

WorldAid Storage :

A Big THANK YOU to the StoreRoom

We finally have a storage unit, THANKS to the STORE ROOM on fitzwilliam rd eastwood rotherham S65 1JU. The Store Room have been kind enough to let us utilise a unit within there large facility, where we can store our charity items. So PLEASE now feel free to drop of donations directly here. Donate anything that you think we can sell on & raise funds for our charity appeals. People in the past have eg donated unwanted gifts/ toys/dvds/electricals/ clothes/ handbags/jewellery/shoes/ household stuff.....if you are uncertain about donating something please do not hesitate to contact us..........THANK YOU........

 

 

...THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT...