We’re excited to be recruiting for a Volunteer Fundraiser to join our visionary, enthusiastic and friendly team! Working flexibly, the successful candidate will be highly involved in our success, as we gear up to build Cambodia’s first sensory room later this year, as well as provide life-changing sensory facilities to a children’s A&E in the …
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Over the last couple of days our founder Andrew and grant recipient Joan have co-delivered first aid training to over 50 social workers, teachers and other non-clinical team members at M’Lop Tapang. This follows the great work started by Andrew and our first grant recipient, Sue Higgins, a year ago. This training has been part-supported …
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During her first four days in Cambodia, Dr Joan Livesley has been developing a new space at M’Lop Tapang for medical and nursing team members at the children’s health centre to learn and develop their skills. Opened today, the new learning resource centre has been made possible by the provision of text books by the …
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After 48 hours travelling, our second grant recipient, Dr Joan Livesley, arrived in Sihanoukville this morning. We believe M’Lop Tapang is among the best health care centres for children and young people in Cambodia. For the last two years we’ve been working closely with them to to support the relief of health issues facing children …
While we’re continuing to seek funding to build our first two sensory rooms, we’ve been busy making exciting plans about how to design these spaces, which will enhance the wellbeing of children and young with developmental delay. Our Director of Nursing, Dianne Cook, has met with Ruth Bell, Learning Disability Specialist Nurse for Pennine Acute …
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This year we aim to build two sensory rooms. One in the children’s A&E at North Manchester General Hospital (which will be one of a shockingly low number of sensory rooms in a UK emergency department), and the first sensory room in Cambodia. We believe sensory equipment is a vital part of enhancing the wellbeing …
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Thanks to support from the British Medical Association Humanitarian fund, a fund designed to support and encourage the development of new initiatives to help teams undertake humanitarian projects in low income countries, we’ve awarded our second outreach grant to Dr Joan Livesley. It means Joan will join our Chairperson, Professor Andrew Rowland, on his outreach …
As part of our medical outreach project, today we’ve been delivering essential Children’s First Aid skills to members of the local community in North Manchester. We believe it’s important that members of local communities have these skills, yet such training workshops often carry a hefty price tag. Working with our friends at UKIM Khizra Mosque, …
In the run up to Christmas 2016 we competed in Global Giving’s Gateway Challenge. Up for grabs: a coveted permanent spot on Global Giving’s world-leading charity crowdfunding site. We just had to get over £2,500 in donations across 50 or more donors in just five weeks – and we nailed it! So why’s this a …