CALCUTTA CATHEDRAL RELIEF SERVICE (CRS), INDIA.
TWOAT support to CRS helps the poorest in Calcutta’s slums through education, and weekend schools for children who need to work during the week to support their families. A worthwhile project currently taking place is sewing uniforms for children. Uniforms remove external signs of difference and the women sewing them have been trained in the skill by CRS. A recent women’s empowerment programme enables women who might otherwise be forced to work far from home or turn to prostitution, the skill to earn a respectable living. It will make a profound difference to their lives.
2023
Despite India’s recent successful moon landing there are still millions of their people living in extreme poverty. CRS launched an appeal in their latest newsletter to help fund their annual feeding program supporting some 500 children of impoverished families. We have sent £500 which should supply meals for a year to about 35 of these children.
2022
The project continues to work with the very poorest communities in one of India’s largest cities. The project is developing a film to illustrate their work and we are hoping to show it at an Indian themed evening event early in the New Year.
FRIENDS OF LUDHIANA SCHOOL, INDIA.
F of L provides healthcare to people who are underprivileged and have little access to medicine. TWOAT supports a number of projects through F of L such as a rural health outreach programme which takes doctors to villagers in rural areas, as well as emergency relief in other parts of the Punjab. TWOAT sponsors students who train as nurses, many who return as qualified nurses to work in the hospital in Ludhiana.