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Community Action Nepal – Baharbise School

The Baharbise School for the deaf in Nepal received a £12,000 boost from ERSF to help fund the building of a dormitory/accommodation block. The project, undertaken by Community Action Nepal, enabled the children who board at the deaf school to move out of the classroom they’d been using as makeshift acommodation, and into the proper […]

Halcrow and EACH

A £6,500 grant to the Halcrow Foundation from ERSF has helped towards the structural costs of the new Resource Room at East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices. Children, families and members of the care team will benefit in future years from the wonderful new facilities being created at the charity’s Quidenham/Norfolk hospice.

WZO help to earthquake victims

Young children who have lost limbs in the 2005 earthquake hit regions of Pakistan have been helped with a grant from ERSF. The £10,000 has been used by the World Zoroastrian Organisation to supply prosthetics to seven girls and two boys. They will continue to be assisted to the age of 16 by Pakistan Institute […]

The Passage

Half the salary of a project worker with the ‘hospitality team’ at The Passage was funded thanks to a £15,000 grant from ERSF. During 2009, more than 4,131 different individuals used the day centre making 35,279 weekday visits and 12,594 weekend visits. Most of these visits would have involved at least some contact with a […]

WZO rural housing

A £31,785 ERSF grant to WZO has gone towards rural housing and farmers’ rehabilitation. The money has been used to pay for five replacement cottages and rehabilitation for five farmers.