Raising funds for
deserving causes!
www.meetingneeds.org.uk
WHAT DO WE DO?
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Raise funds for worthy causes
Relieve poverty, hardship & distress
UK and Overseas
Project led
Direct benefit to those in need
Favour smaller charities without Government funding
The villagers in Bandolfi,
Zimbabwe, no longer have
to carry their water for 8
kilometres in containers
after the installation of
this pump and the drilling
of the bore-hole
Before and after the operation: this is one of 11 children for
whom MIMN funded operations to correct facial disfigurements
at a mission set up by Project Harar Ethiopia. Total cost to
change the lives of these 11 children was just £3000.
MIMN funded the installation of a kitchen so that 100
children at Masekheni Fox Educare (Gloria’s creche) at
Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town, can receive hot food
during winter while their parents work.
Meeting Needs has supported Simanjiro Rural Health Centre and Huruma
Hospital with two consignments of medicine each in 2011, including three
parcels of medicines, a clinical box with dressings, small surgical
equipment and a children’s clothes box.
InterCare’s General Manager, Diane Hardy says: “We are very grateful that
the trustees of Meeting Needs have been able to support our work since
2006 in sending medical aid to sub-Saharan Africa."
The Institute of Travel & Meetings raised more than £9,000 for Meetings Industry
Meeting Needs (MIMN) and the cash changed the lives of 300 disabled children.
Revolutionary new software called StarGaze enables children who can’t use a
mouse or a keyboard to play computer games using their eye movements alone
to control the games. The software was installed on a new computer and
positioned in Helen and Douglas House’s Hospice. They can also use the special
software to write emails and communicate in a way previously impossible.
Working through the Pall Unnayan Seva Samiti voluntary
organisation, which has been helping take children out of
prostitution for the past 20 years, MIMN funded the building of a
dormitory to provide accommodation, food, clothing and schooling
for another 20 children on two-tier bunks. Pall Unnayan Seva Samiti
School now takes care of 400 abandoned and destitute youngsters.
This little lad is Owen Kew who has
cerebral palsy. Meeting Needs
funded 100 hours of physiotherapy
for Owen and other children with
The Footsteps Foundation where
revolutionary mobility aids and
treatment are working wonders.
Footsteps’ Emma Kentish said: “We
have also seen an improvement
in Owen’s concentration levels
and his teachers and NHS
physiotherapists have all
noticed a difference. The
treatment Owen has received
has had a big effect on the
family as Owen is now able to
interact more with his brothers,
his mum says; ‘the only
downside is that he can now
fight back with them!’
During the construction of Fiwila school and the boys
dormitory in Zambia, hand-operated micro-cement roof
tile machinery was funded by MIMN and used for
production of the roof tiles. This resulted in buildings
being much cooler than they would have been had the
traditional imported corrugated metal sheeting been used.
Six schools and 12 classroom units were built using
this machinery in Zambia by charity BuildIt
International, using locally trained local people
Meetings Industry Meeting Needs funded the shipping of a container of aid to
Kenya. Working with Konnect9 Worldwide, a charity that specialises in
providing aid to those in poverty, Meeting Needs provided a grant of £2500 to
pay for the shipping costs of a container of medical goods, refurbished
computers, text books, paper, recycled bicycles and sewing machines with a
total value of £80,000-plus to the Little Sisters of Nairobi who have
established 14 schools, clinics and refugees centres in East Africa.
Not all our funding goes to exotic places – installing
this wheelchair hoist for her car gave Marilyn the
freedom she needed to visit friends and do the things
the able-bodied take for granted
IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS WE HAVE FUNDED:
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£1400 to British Wireless for the Blind Fund to provide 10 radio and audio
sets to partially-sighted/blind people in UK
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£2500 to Project Harar Ethiopia for a surgical mission for operations on
another 10 children born with facial disfigurements
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15 portable entertainment devices for terminally ill patients at St Raphael’s
Hospice in Surrey and purchased 10 special sensory toy packs for babies
suffering with spinal muscular atrophy.
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£1500 to Aldis Trust to organise a training event for disabled people
demonstrating how computers can be made accessible
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£5000 for days out for children that have profound and multiple disabilities,
life-limiting conditions or have been abused
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
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