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Bapuji Youth Association bicycles and broomsticks

Bicycles and broomsticks were the happy outcome of an ERSF grant to the Bapuji Youth Association. The £7,380 was used to buy 100 bikes to help deprived school children get to their schools plus machine-made moulds to help five groups of women start a broomstick making unit.

Hope and Homes for Children

ERSF gave a £10,000 grant to Hope and Homes for Children to help them move babies from the Maygoma Baby Orphanage in Khartoum, Sudan into local foster homes – contributing to the closure of this infamous institution and the reform of Sudan’s childcare system. In the last six months of 2008, HHC moved 120 babies […]

K R Cama Oriental Institute

An ERSF grant has been used to help with the preservation and conservation of manuscripts and old and rare books and portraits in the K R Cama Oriental Institute library. The £20,732 also helped pay towards urgent building repairs. Some 67 manuscripts and rare books comprising 14,781 folios have been restored and conserved in their […]

CHYP training for young people

Training for young people is how a £15,000 ERSF grant has been spent by CHYP. It paid for Job Club, cooking sessions, arts and crafts, ASDAN awards, sport and leisure. “The grant has proved to be invaluable in improving the employability, living skills and social skills of our residents,” said a CHYP spokesman. “These young […]

St Giles Trust training for women prisoners

Training women prisoners in HMP Holloway to increase their chances of getting paid employment on release and reduce the chances of their re-offending is something that ERSF has supported to the tune of £20,000. The grant made to St Giles Trust has enabled a Motivational Worker to run four courses in the prison for 27 […]