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Charities We Support
Vision Aid Overseas is a UK charity dedicated to helping people in the developing world whose lives are blighted by poor eye sight, particularly in those cases where spectacles can help.
I have been to both Uganda and Zambia with Vision Aid Overseas. The projects with which I have been involved so far are direct services projects where we take lots of spectacles out, examine eyes of the local people as required and supply them with suitable spectacles. They are immensly rewarding as often we can make a real difference. In some parts of Africa VAO runs teaching projects so that nurses can learn basic refraction and workshops are established. This is the most satisfactory method as it leads to self-sufficiency.
At the practice we collect good quality used spectacles and in particular money for Vision Aid Overseas. For further information please see www.vao.org.uk
Tadworth & Walton Oversaes Aid Trust TWOAT is my favourite charity as the relatively small amount of money we raise transforms the lives of a lot of very needy people. We choose projects with which one of the committee members has some connection or direct knowledge and keep in close contact with the project both so we can address quickly any sudden requirement for aid and to check that money donated is being used effectively. Every penny donated goes straight to a project and all expenses are covered by committee members. We support about 20 projects at the moment, including the sponsorship of a little boy, Andrew Gumbo who goes to school in the Rainbow Africa Centre in Livingstone, Zambia where I have been based on our 2 Vision Aid Overseas projects. To find out more about TWOAT see their website: www.twoat.org
The Childrens Trust, Tadworth Rachel Turner, who has been with me since I started the Practice in 1985, organisises the volunteers at the Childrens Trust. It is a very popular local charity which helps children with multiple disabilities. www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk
