June Newsletter
Over the past year, we have had very positive feedback about our Newsletters and shall continue to produce them on a monthly basis.
The Newsletter for June has been uploaded onto our main site and has photos of our new Distribution Centre. Have a look and find out what we are achieving on your behalf.
After regaining access to our old domains, Little Stars has five ways of bringing information to you through the internet about our work with children in Egypt.
In order to make this work more efficiently, we are moving our accounts into our own hosting space. This might mean that access to the sites is restricted for a short time while the transfer is taking place.
www.Streamline.net has made this possible through their offer of a fifty per cent charity discount. We are very grateful to them for their support in regaining access to our sites and for their help in maintaining them.
Update 23rd June - the work is now complete and all our sites and up and running. Thank you for your patience.
Our completed end of year accounts, which have been submitted for approval, show that cash donations to the charity amounted to £35,306.85 between 1st June 2007 and 31st May 2008. In addition, clothing and footwear items that have been donated with a value of several thousand pounds.
Total expenditure amounted to £17.941 which means we have more than £17,000 left in the bank. £15,000 of which is earmarked for the new West Bank Clinic. Little Stars has done a great deal to relieve poverty through the distribution of food parcels, has paid education fees, has given medical assistance by providing wheelchairs and financing two clinics in Luxor, and has supported other charities and individuals through donations and payment of medical bills. In addition we have opened a Distribution Centre on the East Bank on which the rent has been paid for the coming year. We feel therefore that your donations have been used effectively and wisely. A summary of our accounts will be published here when they have been approved and submitted to the Charity Commission.
Without your donations we could not have achieved anything. We have now moved into another year and have wide ranging plans for the future but without your help they will come to nothing.
New Distribution Centre Luxor Egypt
There has been a flurry of activity in our new East Bank Distribution Centre. It is no longer a dust filled dilapidated dairy, it now has a new coat of paint, clothes racks, storage baskets, palettes, wheelchairs and sufficient food items to make up 250 food parcels for the relief of poverty in those who are in the most need.
There is still more work to be done and volunteers are needed but Little Stars has already been given tremendous support in getting the centre ready and and we wish to thank Mr. Col of Col’s coffee shop for his donation of racking that will make a big difference to the centre’s office.
We are still looking for premises for the new West Bank Clinic and we have high hopes for a new building that is being inspected this week. We are still waiting to hear from the Lottery Commission but are making plans anyway so that things can move forward quickly if the bid is successful.
On the 1st June we entered our second year and would have liked to celebrate it with balloons and a party of our own instead we were invited to a children’s party at Karnak Charity where the East Bank clinic is situated. It was a wonderful afternoon.
Photos of the Distribution Centre and the party will be uploaded in our next newsletter.
