Hello All, I have been very lucky to meet some amazing women since getting involved with Cuidiu the Irish Childbirth Trust. Kym is one of them, who last week e-mailed me with some brilliant photo’s from her trip to India. Kym has been doing some excellent work to raise money to help Sightsavers New Delhi.
I thought that I would share this with you and if you can I encourage you to support Kym’s fundraising efforts over at www.mycharity.ie. Kym recently travelled to India at her own expense to learn more about how blindness effects people’s lives there and I have posted a few photos from her trip too. To see all of Kym’s photos on flickr click here.
From Kym….
Nameste! (That's Hindi for 'hello')
India is an incredible country of contrasts. Delhi is a very run down crumbling city surrounded by shanty towns and people living in tents made from plastic bags. Almost every pavement or kerb has someone living beside it, many children were shoeless, dirty, some half naked. Whilst there were many other ordinary families on the metro too. The caste system seems to perpetuate the acceptance of poverty in so many. It makes it very hard to better oneself and the dowry system makes it very hard too, that's only my opinion from the people I met there. We travelled to Agra to the Taj Mahal and if anything the poverty, filth and chaos was worse.
As you know I have been doing some fund-raising for the clinic we visited. I am so amazed and thrilled at everyone's generosity. Blindness is a devastating and debilitating disability to suffer in this unequal society and the work at this clinic goes some way to preventing this misery.
If you would like to donate and haven't had an opportunity yet my appeal is still 'live' and if you're not in a position to help, do please keep Sightsavers in mind for some other time. I have created a fundraising page on www.mycharity.ie. On it you can read a few words about the project.
As you know I have been doing some fund-raising for the clinic we visited. I am so amazed and thrilled at everyone's generosity. Blindness is a devastating and debilitating disability to suffer in this unequal society and the work at this clinic goes some way to preventing this misery.
If you would like to donate and haven't had an opportunity yet my appeal is still 'live' and if you're not in a position to help, do please keep Sightsavers in mind for some other time. I have created a fundraising page on www.mycharity.ie. On it you can read a few words about the project.
Click on the link and it should bring you to the page or Paste this URL into your browsers or search under my name on the website. You can sponsor the project via credit or debit card. Even €5 goes a long way.
Sincere thanks to all that supported this Fundraising.
Children on the street outside the Hope Foundation
Patients in the Womens Ward
Patients in the MalesWard
Congratulations Kym on all the hard work,
love the Yummy Mummies and Jetsetting Babies xxx
