UK Charity Commission Registration Number 1120536
 

Supporting the Trust

There are at lest ten ways in which you can support our work. Donations are always needed to boost the Trust’s funds and help us to fund our clinic and hadana, supply food parcels, and to complete our projects. Please see our Donations Page for ways that you can donate funds to Little Stars.

Fund Raising

1. Do you have any Egyptian currency left over from a holiday that is just gathering dust somewhere? No matter how small the notes we can put them to good use on your behalf. Just pop them in an envelope and send them to our registered office. We will send you a receipt if you require one.

2. Are you thinking of completing a sponsored event? You can make your own sponsorship page on Just Giving and keep people informed of your progress while collecting funds to help Little Stars.

3. Little Stars is also registered with Mission Fish which is the charity arm of Ebay. If you are an Ebay seller, it is possible to donate a percentage of the proceeds of a sale directly to Little Stars. A lot of Egyptian goods are offered for sale through this Internet auction site and if only a small proportion of it came to Little Stars it would make a real difference to the lives of many.

4. Another simple way to support us is through your Internet Shopping. You can support Little Stars for free when shopping online with over 600 popular retailers, including Argos, Tesco, NEXT, M&S, John Lewis, Debenhams, HMV, Vodafone, DELL, The Body Shop©, PLAY.com, Interflora, Comet and many more. Little Stars has joined the Easy Fund Raising Organisation which has been set up to help charities raise funds.
http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk

5. You can also raise funds for Little Stars when you search the Web with Easysearch - the best results from Yahoo!, Windows MSN Live Search and Ask.com in one simple search.
http://littlestars.easysearch.org.uk

6. When you visit Luxor, you could leave behind the things that you no longer need or which are not really worth taking home when your bags are full of all the souvenirs that you bought. Excess baggage is expensive so dump your unwanted items with us. Any toiletries, spare clothing, shoes, or books that you can leave with us will all be distributed and used. If you contact us we will collect them from your hotel or they can be left at our Distribution Centre on the East Bank or the new Clinic on the west bank.

7. Another way to help kids in Egypt would be to collect children’s clothes or any of the items on our wish list in your home country and bring them out to Luxor when you visit. If you are coming from the UK we might (this is only a might) be able to help with an extra baggage allowance as some airlines will increase the allowance of passengers bringing charity items to Luxor. Contact us with a list of what you intend to bring, your date of travelling and the name of the airline that you are travelling with and we will do our best to get the extra allowance for you. However, it is almost impossible to get extra baggage allowances for flights that have been booked at short notice or if you delay in asking us to request one on your behalf. If you cannot take goods to Luxor then post them to us at the registered office and we will take them out on your behalf. NB: All we can do is write to the airlines and ask for an allowance we can never guarantee that they will give us one as it depends entirely upon how full the aircraft is and how many other charities have asked for allowances too. Please do not be disappointed if we cannot get a baggage allowance for you. We will have done our best and will be as disappointed as you are.

8. Alternatively you could become a regular donor of £10.00 and 'adopt' an Egyptian family. Your donation will provide food parcels, pay school fees and buy school uniforms for the children in your family and you will receive regular updates of their progress.

9. If you are making a Will then please think of the children in Luxor who might be able to benefit from a legacy however small it might be. Several people have asked us for the charity's details so that this can be done. Little Stars is easily identifiable through its unique Charity Commission number of 1120536 and all other details are on this site.

10. We are also getting requests from student nurses (and hopefully doctors) who need overseas experience. If you are in this situation and need work practice in Africa then please contact us.

If you have any questions or need further information then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Contact@LittleStars-Luxor.org

Your donations go a very long way

£1 - will buy a child a pair of sandals, or sweets for 20 children, or 2 kgs of flour, or 9 kgs of dates.

£5 - will buy clothes and shoes for a child, or a warm blanket to protect a family against the cold winter night, or buy medicine for a sick child or pay the charge schools make for the use of books.

£10 - will mend a straw roof, or replace a broken roof beam, or re-wire a one-room home to make it safe, or buy a cotton mattress for a bench bed, or buy fruit juice for all the children at the clinic for a week or buy dried milk for a hungry baby for one month.

£15 - will buy a ceiling fan to cool sleeping children in the heat of the summer, or buy a small sink and tiles to keep mud walls dry, or buy 15 coats from UK charity shops to be taken to Egypt.

£20 - will buy a locally made single bed with a cotton mattress to get small children off the floor and away from vermin, or pay school fees and buy a school uniform for a child. Will buy a nourishing meal for every child in the nursery school for one day or will pay for a second hand cooker so that families are not cooking on the floor on open fires.

£30 - will buy a sturdy desk and chair for the nursery school, or buy a double bed with cotton mattress where several children can sleep, or will pay for the installation of a water meter in a home where water is possible or will buy a standing frame for the clinic.

£50 - will rewire a small home to make it safe, or will buy equipment for the new dental surgery or the new Training Workshops or will buy a new wheelchair or will pay the wages of a teacher for a month.

£75 - will pay for the installation of a basic toilet in a home without sanitation, or put a complete new roof on a mud brick home or buy an ultrasound massager for the clinic or home use.

£100 - will pay for a physiotherapist or a speech therapist for one month, or buy 40 gelabyyas or 150 pairs of sandals.

£150 - will pay for a Paediatrician or a Dentist for one month.

£200 - will pay the rent on the clinic for one month.

£300 - would pay for a septic tank, ceramics and piping for the installation of a basic 'public' toilet in Haja Marise.

£500 - will pay Little Stars' entire staff wages bill for one month.

£750 - will pay for the alterations needed to install the dental surgery equipment or pay the cost of the food parcels for one month.

£1,000 - will buy 300 blankets to be distributed in the winter months, or will equip one of the Training Workshops, or would sponsor 8 families for a whole year.

£2,500 - will pay the entire running costs of the Distribution Centre for a whole year.

£5,000 - would complete the premises to be used for Training Workshops or allow us to develop a mother and baby clinic.

£10,000 - would pay for one of the transport vehicles that are so desperately needed to get around the villages or would completely equip the nursery school.

£20,000 - would pay for the completion of the proposed East Bank Drop-In Centre or buy the double-cab and mini bus that we need.

Whatever you can give and whatever help you can offer, it will be gratefully received.

We would be very grateful to WebMasters placing a link to our web site and we will reciprocate where possible. Thank you.