Scouts raise £600!

As you know from earlier posts, I have been involved with a charity called the Nepal Schools Trust after going on a holiday to Nepal at Easter 2012 to see the work they had done. We also visited a partly built medical centre, in the community of Daldale, needing only a roof to complete its structure. I was ill in the mountains and was treated by a nurse who was from the area and hoping to go home and work in this medical centre once it had got a roof. This is vital as there is no available healthcare for this region of Nepal. Me and my family decided to raise the £300 we were told was needed to put the roof on. We decided to get my Scout Group (West Gosforth Scout Group in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK) involved by doing a sponsored event all the Scouts could be involved in. Me and my sister decided one Saturday we could do the 5km park run http://www.parkrun.org.uk/newcastle/home as a sponsored Scout fun run, as I explained in an earlier post.The people involved in raising this amount were: me raising £325 (with help from the Newcastle Justice and Peace Group and my family), Jacob Williams (a Scout and friend) raised £100 and a Scout barbecue was also held in our Scouts Centre raising another £175. I am thoroughly grateful to all those who raised this money or contributed in some way.
Our main target was exceeded! A whopping £600 was raised, doubling the target for the roof on the medical centre! The extra money is going to pay for: plastering the interior of the medical centre; waiting room chairs; a patient couch and a lockable medicine cabinet. There will also be money left over to support the Nepal Schools Trust in their latest education programme which will teach the whole community about hygiene and basic healthcare. Chris Dickinson and the great people at Nepal Schools Trust http://www.nepalschoolstrust.org.uk/ are going to make sure the money is spent properly and will check on progress and let us know.

As this event has turned out to be a great success I am thinking about organising more to contribute to the Nepal Schools Trust and improving health in Daldale. It has been a great pleasure to organise and take part in.