Adopt an Egyptian Family
Adopt an Egyptian Family
Our new 'adopt an Egyptian family' scheme has only been running for a very short time but has already been successful. People have signed up to give £10 per month to assist their family about whom they will have photos, regular updates and contact should they visit Luxor.
The families within the scheme are those in dire poverty, mainly widows with young children, or those whose father is very ill and cannot support them. Money is not given directly to any family as then we could not guarantee where it would be spent, but it will be used by Little Stars to provide the family with extra food, meat and milk for the children. Little Stars will also ensure that the children have the opportunity to attend school and that they have all the clothing, school items and medicines that they need.
In one family, Little Stars is buying furniture as the children are sleeping on the floor. This would not be so dreadful had it not been on the mud floor which can be damp from rising water due to the constant irrigation of surrounding fields. Having no beds leaves the children vulnerable to attack from vermin, beetles and scorpions. The children are five and four years old and the mother scrapes a meagre living sellilng eggs. Little Stars would like to set the woman up with a stock of food so that she can set up a small shop for her neighbours. In this way she canl restore her pride and with a small but regular income, she will be able to take over more of the responsibility of looking after her children. We estimate that this will cost around £150 for food stock and shelving. It is a large sum in Egypt but it is small when you consider what it could achieve.
If you would like to adopt a family, then please contact us. There are many more families in desperate need than we have sponsors to care for them.
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