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Our byooooodiful friend Mrs Lotte Lane is arranging an extravaganza of a party in Brizzle on the 5th November with all proceeds going to SAFE for our projects around the world.

Here are the deets!

The burlesque theme promises a lot of giggles and fun and there are a squintazillion acts that will entertain guests throughout the night.

If you’re not from Bristol but you still reeeeeeeeeally want to come, there’s a cheap as chips hotel just down the road, which you can see by clicking right here, right now!

More details about the event can be found here

Title: Nepstock
Location: Gwdihw
Link out: Click here
Description: 6 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff, South Glamorganshire CF10 2HJ
Start Date: 2011-09-25
Start Time: 16:00
End Date: 2011-09-26

Everyone should get down to Gwdihw on the 25th September for Nepstock!!

Our lush friends Any Cuff and Phil Jenkins have organised a fundraiser for the Nepali education project that we have pledged to support, and it promises to be a wicked event.

Click here for details and come party with us for a good cause!

Say hello to Maisie moo!

She’s the new SAFE cow, which was gifted to our partner beneficiaries, the WCDT in Mugaiyur in India.

She’s got a baby on the way, so the communities that we support can make an income from TWO cows in the near future!

Income will come from milk, curd and other dairy goods and will help people achieve a better standard of living.

One cow only costs between £150 and £300, so if any of you little lovelies want to donate to our expanding farm, get in touch!

I’m home!!

Touched down from our mega Indian trip on Wednesday, and have lots to report! I took a group of volunteers out to meet our newest partner charity the WCDT (The Weaker Community Development Trust) and to see the ways in which volunteers could be useful to the project. The WCDT works with gypsy communities in a small village called Mugaiyur in Tamil Nadu and runs several programmes designed to improve the standard of living in the community. We had an amazing time learning about life in the village and we taught some lessons in the village school and we prepared land for planting medicinal trees. We learned so much about how The SAFE Foundation can help support and develop the projects and about how trained volunteers can contribute. Some of our beneficiaries can be seen in the first photo above.

While we were in India, we also visited MYWA our long term partners to see how progress in the schools that we help develop is going – and the verdict is FAB!! Our schools, teachers and children are looking so beautiful and so happy, as you can see in the photos above! Children have access to safe drinking water, they have a new computer room, uniforms, books, new teachers and better buildings. We felt really proud of ourselves and really proud of our partners.

We’ll be making a film about our work in India, which we’ll keep you posted on, but meanwhile if you want more information on volunteering or on the projects general, please feel free to get in touch.

We have a new favourite person, his name is Gareth Davies and we actually love him.

Not only is he a very, very, very, very nice man, but he is a very, very, very, very, very kind man and he decided to donate lots and lots of his hard earned pennies to The SAFE Foundation to support our project in Cambodia.

As a result, we’ve been singing ‘go, go Gareth Davies’ to the tune of the power rangers theme song for the last week and we’re thinking about making a little shrine for him in our office.

Mr Davies, thank you. From the bottom of our SAFE hearts, thank you. We will definately be buying you a beer some time in the near future!

Well, we got to India safely, (after a hectic journey), and we have finally made it to our newest partner project in Sathyakandanoor near Villupuram, Tamil Nadu. It’s boiling!

The project is amazing, a programme of skill training and teaching that benefits local Dalith people who are incredibly disadvantaged and ostracised from mainstream society.

There are a team of six of us working with local people to try and encourage new ideas for small enterprise, income and management skills, and we’ve been very welcomed and treated with amazing kindness.

We’ll keep you posted as time goes on, so stay tuned!

This Tuesday sees little Lucy flying off to India with 5 volunteers as part of our new partnership with our newest partners the WCDT, based in Sathyakandanoor village, Tamil Nadu.

Volunteers will be responsible in a number of roles that are designed to create better livelihood opportunities and standards of living for disadvantaged Dalit people in the area.

Keep posted for news of how the trip is going and what you can do to help!

Well finally, after a lot of planning, our beautiful little office assistant has found her way to Cambodia!

We’ve placed Leah, (our favourite New Zealander in the whole world), in Siem Reap for a whole 6 months to help our lovely partners, the CCAHA with their work.

Good luck, lush one – keep us posted!

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Our beautiful Louise has set off for Uganda today to visit our partners in Tororo.

Lou lou is going to install some solar panels while she’s there for the headquarters buildings in which we’ll eventually be hosting volunteers and visitors to the project.

She’s also gone to visit SAFE beneficiaries and to start implementing our trade projects with our partners, TOCIDA.

Good luck, Lou lou, see you when you get back!