LittleStars-Luxor

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Our latest Newsetter has been uploaded onto our main site.  Please have a look at it to find out what Little Stars has achieved during its first year of operation.

Copies will be sent via e-mail to our regular supporters.

Thank you for your support.

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 Airlines that fly into Luxor

We would like to thank those airlines that fly into Luxor and also help the charities there.  Egypt Air have given us a superb level of help and so have First Choice and Thomson Airlines.  Their help in allowing us extra baggage allowance has meant that much needed items can be brought out from the UK.  We would urge you to support these airlines when booking your visit to Luxor.

Monarch Airlines said that they were unable to increase their baggage allowance and that any extra baggage woould cost us £10 per kilo.

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May is the last month of our accounting year and at the end of the month we will prepare all our accounts for approval and submission to the Charity Commission.

Records for the end of April show that donations have now reached £30,000 sterling.  Only a few short months ago we were hoping that £10,000 would be collected and now, with your generosity, that sum has been tripled.  £10,000 sterling has been moved to the Little Stars deposit account to be held in reserve for the proposed clinic on the West Bank. 

Please, please, continue your support.  Little Stars is already one of Luxor’s biggest children’s charities and we can make a real difference to the lives of those who have little and even less hope. 

During the year we have bought over 1,000 food parcels for desperate families, 150 blankets, 10 wheelchairs and physiotherapy equipment for disabled children.  In addition we have paid the school fees of almost 200 children thereby ensuring their education. 

For the last six months Little Stars has completely supported the old Manacare clinics in Seul on the West Bank of the Nile and Karnak on the East Bank.  Apart from providing much needed support for disabled children the clinics provide employment for thirteen people.  Little Stars also makes a regular substantial contribution towards the running costs of the Good Samaritan Home and also contributes towards their school.

From donated goods, Little Stars has been able to provide much needed warm winter clothing and school items such as pens, pencils and exercise books.    The icing on the cake for Luxor’s youth was the donation of football boot by Suffolk Trading Standards.  The boots have now reached Luxor and will soon be presented to local clubs and charities by the Governor Dr. Samir Farag.  Donated goods can now be stored in Little Stars’ new East Bank Distribution Centre on which the rent has already been paid for the coming year.

Without you we would not have been able to do any of these things.

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East Bank Distribution Centre

From the 1^st May 2008 Little Stars will have a Distribution Centre on the East Bank.  This is an exciting development for Little Stars as it means that we can extend our provision and help many more of Luxor's severely disadvantaged children.

The Centre, which is in Abdul Hamid Ali El Monda Street, close to the International Hospital will initially provide storage for children’s clothes, food parcels, baby milk, wheelchairs and other medical equipment.

A further bonus of the centre is that there is now a central site where visitors can leave donated clothing and school items.  The site of the Centre was originally a dairy and is very large so it has space for all present and future activities.  The rent has initally been paid for one year at the end of which the success of the project will be assessed.

The Centre will be run by Carol Sharples, who has been appointed as Little Stars' official Luxor Administrator.  We are delighted to welcome her to the Little Stars team.  Carol has been working tirelessly for Little Stars on a volunteer basis for the last year and was the ideal choice for the Administrator position.  Carol will have an assistant who will oversee the distribution of food parcels on the East Bank, will maintain the Centre’s records and will ensure the smooth running of the centre.

The centre is purely for administration, storage and distribution of charity items for Luxor's disadvantaged children and is not a trading centre, therefore, it will operate completely within Egyptian law.