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News
A new Trustee,
strawberries and cream
Brighter Future is holding its AGM in Ashford on 25 June
and I am looking forward to welcoming Mr Charles Pickford
as a new trustee. Charles is the son of David Pickford,
the very generous supporter of BFIT, whom Danny had known
for 20 years, and who died last year.
Saturday 26 June is the occasion of a
fete at which BFIT has taken a couple of stalls, one for
jumble and the other for selling strawberries and cream.
There will also be a bran tub with prizes donated by Coty
Cosmetics. Do come along if you live near Ashford!
The
Big Day is 11 July
…….for Danny and the seventeen intrepid volunteers
who have elected to run the London 10K.
Anjali, Kara and Steve
will be running for a second time and no doubt hoping to
improve their times this year. Danny and
the others are first timers. Kara has persuaded two friends,
Chris and Vicky, to join
her. We are very pleased to welcome our 2010 India Volunteer
, Lucy, and her sister Emma.
Rachel, our 2009 India volunteer, is running with a friend.
Helen and husband Don
are sponsors of Satyavarthi. Danny’s brothe-in-law
Graham is joining the other first timers,
Natalie, Faye, Fani,
David and Jack. Altogether
18 runners for Brighter Future International Trust will
be starting from Hyde Park Corner with thousands of others
on 11 July at 9.30am
If you would like to support them it can be done through
www.justgiving.com/bfit/donate
or use the internet, or send a cheque, made payable to Brighter
Future International Trust, to LloydsTSB plc, ac no 03085385
sort code 30-90-28
Thank you,
Sonia and Richard
Sonia and Richard are loyal supporters
of Brighter Future. For the last three years they have organised
a garden party for BFIT and the various charities they support.
This year we were privileged to be linked with the Alzheimer’s
Society and both charities received £208
The New Building
for HIV infected Orphans in Vizianagaram
The new home for HIV infected orphans is
nearing completion as the internal and external ‘plastering’
with cement has been done and now the internal cement floors
are to be laid, doors fitted and the electrical and plumbing
work done.
The £600 raised by the Bury St Edmunds
supporters of Brighter Future is already in India to pay
for the wood needed to build the 22 window frames and windows
and for the glass to go in the newly built Home for HIV-infected
orphans. This home is a self contained unit build next to,
and on top of, the main house of the Rainbow Boys’
home.
We still need doors - seven or eight of
them and their frames..
The £1250 that Anna raised will
go towards paying for the walls to be rendered with cement
inside and out – this is the Indian equivalent of
plastering. It adds strength to the steel-reinforced walls,
floors and ceilings.
Any excess will go towards running
the electricity wires through the piping inside the walls,
for fans and lights.
Anna has
already passed her target to raise £1000 for Brighter
Future
Anna’s employers sent BFIT a cheque for £250
in support of Anna’s sky diving exploit, and she has
raised £1005 on her Justgiving site from friends and
well wishers. Anna is paying all her own costs for this
jump. Visit Anna’s Justgiving page and see the lovely
photos she has put on it.
www.justgiving.com/nanabellaskydive
We will be thinking of you on 30
July, Anna!
Ashford Fundraising
Serena, Jodhi, Viv, James, Danny and I manned the Brighter
Future stall at the Kennington Summer Fayre. We had a hot,
sunny day and we were kept on our toes manning a lucky dip,
a tombola, strawberries and cream and children’s books,
clothes and toys. We raised nearly £300 after expenses.
Danny and Serena are doing another stall
at the local hospital on 5 July.
Searching
for malnourished and starving HIV+ people
Doing village surveys around the 250 villages Narasannapeta
mandal is a very slow process and in the two years we have
surveyed only 93 villages and identified 127 HIV+ patients.
Not all identified patients can afford the bus fares, or
are strong enough, to travel to our centre to collect free
food and medicines, and see a doctor.
In May we started a new system under which our vehicle goes
about 20 km from our Narasannapeta centre and collects the
(mainly) women who have been able to come to the pre-arranged
pick up points. In this way anonymity is preserved. In two
days we found 17 new patients.
We are confident that we will be able to reach more malnourished
HIV+ patients and their children. (We will still continue
our surveys of villages nearer to Narasannapeta).
Last month we gave our food and medicine parcels to 72 people.
We need funds to feed the newcomers who are often the most
malnourished.
A little boy died in our hospice last year because he was
so weak from starvation and HIV that we could not save him.
His grandfather died too.
It costs just £6 a month to give
food and anti-bacterial medicine to one person - we badly
need regular donations of £6 a month to save these
lives.
If you can feed someone for one month
that will be a great help too!
Thank
you, Isobel!
Isobel is one of our newer sponsors. She
has very kindly set up a Facebook
page for Brighter Future International
Trust. Isobel is a friend of Kathryn and when Kathryn has
finished her globe-trotting, and paid a quick revisit to
the Rainbow Children and Prem Nivas, she will join Isobel
as an Administrator of the Facebook pages. I love the "adopt
a grandparent" idea Isobel!
Isobel wonders if those of you who
use Facebook would pass the Brighter Future page on to your
friends and colleagues. Lots and lots of pictures on it
too!.
Read
previous newsletters
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How
did we do in
June 2010?
Children sponsored 0
Donations and events
Sarah’s marmalade
and Caroline’s mice £30
Chantry Sale - another £70
Sonia's garden party £208
DP £500
Kennington Fayre £286
Birthdays
August
& September birthdays
Prem
Nivas
Krishnaveni
8 August
Bhavani 10 August
Jyothi 31 August
Swathi 9 September,
Rainbow
homes
Sujatha
4 August
Ramesh N 15 August
Siluva Raju
19 August
Mounika G
22 August,
D Kumari 30 August,
Ramu 1 September
Laxman 1 September
Manohar J 7 September
Samson 17 September
Jerena 19
September
Elisha V 28 September
Cards take about ten days
to reach India.
Please send birthday cards
and presents to
Brighter Future
Development Trust
PO Box 18
Plot 705 Vuda Layout Vizianagaram
Andhra Pradesh
India 535003
Donations
may be made to Brighter Future via internet, cheque or bank!
Brighter Future International
Trust
Sort code 30-90-28
Ac no. 3085385
or by Paypal and CAF on
our web site
www.brighterfuturetrust.com
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