The Revd Dr Jos Strengholt discusses life in Egypt today and the work of Nijl Vallei (Nile Valley) the Dutch charity he founded to support the poor in Egypt.
For more information on how you can support Nile Valley email kantoor@nijlvallei.nl or visit their website https://www.nijlvallei.nl
Tools for Self Reliance are a UK based charity working to help relieve poverty in Africa. They work with local organisations to bring about effective and sustainable change.
If you live in the Southampton/New Forest area and would like more information on volunteering, please get in touch.
Tools for Self Reliance was started in 1979 by a handful of dedicated volunteers. Disillusioned by their experiences of development projects in Africa and the failure of overseas development assistance at that time to trickle down to the grassroots, our founders took it upon themselves to work with small-scale community based groups and at the same time lobby major institutional donors and governments to adopt a more people-centered approach to development assistance.
Find out more about how you can support Tools for Self Reliance
This week I made another delivery of Christian books collected from in and around Southampton to the Book Aid depot in Southsea. Many of these will be going on a container to churches and bookshops in Ghana next week. This was the 12th delivery of books from Southampton to Southsea made in the last year. Given that during much of the last year we were under covid travel restrictions, deliveries have averaged two or three a month since the lockdown eased.
Book Aid supports Christian bookshops, mainly in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Smaller shipments of more scholarly books are occasionally made to equip Bible College libraries where they are used to train a new generation of ministers. Find out more about how you can support Book Aid Charitable Trust
Graham Burrough provides an update on the monthly charity book sale held at the United Church of Egham. Support our local charities and buy online via our eBay sites: myloveleybooks or ucefundraise.
For more information about future dates or volunteering visit the bookstall website
Canon John Salter is a founding trustee and the chair of Peacemaker Trust. He explains why he is involved with the charity and how you can too.
Delighted to meet up with Joyce at Jubilee Church in Southsea and Joseph from Book Aid Charitable Trust today. Joseph drove down from the Book Aid base in London to collect donated Christian books which, after sorting, will be delivered to other parts of the world to help resources churches.
Continue readingAs a trustee of SWVG, I am delighted to share this short video about our work. It provides an introduction to the work of Southampton and Winchester Visitors Group. We are volunteers who befriend and support asylum seekers and refugees in the Southampton area.
For more information visit our website
Despite the lockdown, it is encouraging that so many people are keen to donate books for Book Aid Charitable Trust. we have continued to receive large quantities of theological books from church leaders in Hampshire and needed to make several deliveries a month to the local Book Aid depot in Southsea. Joyce has supported the Christian charity, Book Aid, for over 50 years and stores books in her church.
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After six months of lockdown, the United Church of Egham monthly charity book sale took place on Friday 25 September. The customers behaved impeccably, the volunteers were awesome and despite a gusty wind, a creditable £1,350 was raised for local charities in one day. £500 will be going to the Runnymede Dementia Carers Support. The next book sale will be on Friday 23 October 10:00-18:00.
Continue readingGraham Burrough explains how you can get involved in the United Church of Egham Monthly Charity Book Sale in 50 seconds.
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