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UK Charity Commission Registration Number 1120536 |
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Welcome to Little Stars - Luxor Children's Trust Fund
How do Luxor’s orphans and abandoned children get by? How do families survive on what can be as low as £5 or £6 per month when world prices are spiralling upward? How do those children with disabilities manage in a hostile environment that is 95% desert and stricken with poverty when they are outside the school system and there is no treatment available? The answer to all those questions is simple. Without your help they will not manage at all. There is no danger of a child falling through the welfare net, because there is no welfare net to catch any of them. With your support, Little Stars will assist abandoned,
orphaned, disabled and disadvantaged children
in Luxor regardless of their gender or their
religion. A
winged Isis was chosen as the Little Stars mascot
because by legend she is the protector of children.
If asked to protect children she will hold them in
her arms and enfold them in her wings of love and
peace. The aim of Little Stars is to protect all children
in that way.
Have a look through our website and consider making a donation to the fund or to sponsor an Egyptian family. The aims of the Trust are wide and Trust Funds are not bottomless pits. They need constant replenishing if they are to work and really make a difference. They need your support and that makes you important in the lives of children that you have never met but who are dependent on you. Show them that you care and that they are not forgotten by everyone. Between June 2007 and November 2009 you have donated more than £140,000 towards the completion of Little Stars' projects. This is approximately 1,200,000 Egyptian Pounds, which has enabled us to start a new clinic at Qurna on the west bank of River Nile, to carry out an extensive food distribution programme and to operate the sponsorship scheme. Many charities have a high percentage of expenses but Little Stars has a self-imposed ceiling of 15% on expenses and is at present (January 2010) running at less than 10%. This means that more than 90% of your donation is getting exactly where it is needed. There are no high cost European members of staff or expensive offices and apart from vital Egyptian staff, all work is done on a volunteer basis with most volunteers covering their own expenses. As we operate a system of complete discloure, our accounts for the last two years are all on this website with a link on the About Us page. We now need your help more than ever to ensure the future of the clinic and extend its services, to run the new free Hadana (Nursery School) for disadvantaged and disabled children which is opening next to the clinic, to buy the Toyota Double Cab and Mini-bus that we desperately need to get around the villages to deliver food parcels, and to start the Training Workshops in premises above the clinic. Please have a look at our latest newsletter to see photographs of the progress we have made in all fields. It is your help that made all this possible.
Patron:
The Earl of Carnarvon This site was last updated on the 28th January 2010 |
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