Charity Support

1) Brainwave
http://www.brainwave.org.uk/

#Brainwave
Brainwave help my son Bastian on his road to continued strength.  Without Brainwave, we would still be 6 years behind.  We are going from strength to strength.  Brainwave have given Bastian the confidence to embrace his life.

"Brainwave has been the ability to recognise the impact having a child with additional needs has on their family and empowering them to deliver therapy to their child at home. Brainwave assessments equip parents and carers with the necessary skills through the teaching of individually tailored Programmes. Continuous support from the team and regular assessments with skilled therapists’ means that Brainwave is able to adjust the therapy required as the child grows and progresses, meaning that support is available for as long as needed."

2) Drop for Drop
http://drop4drop.org/

#dropfordrop
Drop4drop funds sustainable clean water solutions to countries that need it most. We demand accountable, effective and efficient provision of clean water.

How do we achieve this? We employ local labourers and heavily involve the community in the project creating a sense of ownership and pride. We also provide maintenance training and hygiene education to ensure maximum longevity. Every project we undertake provides clean water to a community of over 1000 people who have never before had this privilege.

#iLoveWater #cleanwaterforall

As a human being, it is my duty to make sure that we all have the right to safe water and sanitation for all, just because I am an Environmental Scientist, doesn't mean I have more power to influence.  What I find difficult to understand is that global governments spend #trillions on interstellar/space research, yet they can't secure the most basic and imperative need for life on our planet first. Water for all.  Water is a basic human right and need. Water is life. #cleanwaterforall

3) Water for Kids
http://waterforkids.org.uk/

#waterforkids #cieh #EHO
Water for Kids was set up as a charity in 1996 after two Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) visited Peru as part of a scheme to help eradicate cholera. They were concerned that people in small and less formal settlements needed environmental health services in general and safe water in particular. They looked for a charity which was addressing these issues, but they could not find one. So they set up Water for Kids as a UK charity, rooted in environmental health.

The name 'Water for Kids' was chosen because it is a good description of what the charity does and if the kids have water, so do all the members of the community. The emphasis on kids also suggests an investment in the future. Water for Kids today is still run mainly by EHOs and public health practitioners. It has developed into a successful charity and the trustees like to think that it does things just that little bit differently.

WfK is a small charity, set up by Environmental Health Officers, which provides safe water, sanitation and health education for children and communities in developing countries. Find out more about how we work and the history of WfK.  We are currently working on water and sanitation projects in Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Sierre Leone and Rwanda. In the past we have also provided clean water in Peru, The Gambia, and India. These projects improve peoples' health and well-being and save lives.

Take a minute to imagine your life without a constant supply of clean water. Imagine spending six hours of your already busy day fetching the water you and your family need for drinking, cooking and washing. Now take a moment to honour the four children whose lives were cut short as this minute passed due to preventable water-related diseases.

The statistics are grim, incomprehensible even, but the reality is that safe and readily available water, a right we so often take for granted, is merely a dream for over 13 per cent of the world’s population.

In fact, 884 million people throughout the world do not have access to safe water and 2.5 billion people have no access to basic sanitation, according to the UK government. Diarrhoeal diseases such as cholera, dysentery and typhoid kill thousands of children every day. (Developments Journal, November 2009).

The charity's mission

Water for Kids aims to preserve and protect the good health of children and communities in the developing world by assisting in the provision of safe drinking water, good sanitation and other public health related measures.

The way we work

Water for Kids aims for a holistic approach to the prevention of waterborne disease and, in terms of its ethos, the charity adopts what we call the 'three legged stool'. The first leg is the provision of safe water, the second is ensuring there is improved sanitation and the third is hygiene education.

Projects in Uganda and Zambia are managed on behalf of Water for Kids by local environmental health professionals. We also fund projects which are managed by other organisations, which we know and trust, they are also encouraged to involve health professionals.

Water for Kids considers sustainability to be the essence of its projects, there is no point in bothering unless it’s going to last. So we aim to involve the local community from the start. Later we discuss how they will maintain the installation in the future and make arrangements for them to take over the new system on completion. We will, wherever we can, use local labour and materials.