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Soon we will be trading arts & crafts with the Uganda local people.  For that reason we will launch a market research, in order to calculate how much people in the UK would be willing to pay for each item. If you want to give us a hand with the research, let us know and we will e-mail you the item’s pictures and description. Cheers!

Our new Indian volunteers are getting ready to go out to work in our partner project with the WCDT. We’ve also got a new programme running in our MYWA, jungle partnership, which looks to set up a brand new trade link with tribal women in our beneficiary community. We’ll keep you posted!

After six weeks of training, our ten NEETS (Not in Employment, Education or Training) are ready to begin their mission in Waterloo (near Freetown). Their goal is to work with the local children in different topics related to: HIV/AIDS education, life skills, nutrition education, football skills and other stuff. This project is conducted by the SAFE in partnership with Cardiff East Communities First and supported by Forging Links and The Craig Bellamy Foundation. We’re so excited!

We’ve started trading with a group of Gypsy Dalit women in Mugaiyur, Tamil Nadu, India! Based on ethical and traditional principles, we will be trading fashion items, especially beadwork. SAFE will make no profit from the scheme & all profits will be returned to our beneficiairies. We’ll keep you posted on the new arrivals!!

SAFE have a number of volunteering opportunities left in two of our projects in Ghana and India.

Both projects require an extra manpower boost to help us and our partners achieve our goals in really disadvantaged communities, so if you’ve always wanted to volunteer abroad, and if you’re up for some meaningful and important work – get in touch!!

Project fees cover food, accommodation, internal travel, tools, orientation and a significant contribution to the community in which you’ll work and start from as little as £150 a week. Everything’s direct – SAFE don’t earn a penny on your project and you’ll have an experience you won’t forget!

There are only four more places left and trips take place on the following dates:

Tamil Nadu, India – February 6th – 20th 2012

Kumasi, Ghana – March 5th – 19th 2012

For more info, please contact info@thesafefoundation.co.uk

Whoop!

The SAFE Foundation, in conjuction with Communities First East Cardiff, Forging Links, The Craig Bellamy Foundation and just about every other charity in the whole world, are starting a new project! Its flippin’ amazing, too!

We’re taking 10 young people who are not in employment, education or training to Sierra Leone in December so that they can train a whole lotta Sierra Leone kids in life skills, HIV/AIDS education, football skills and nutrition.

Young people will come from East Cardiff and be trained for six weeks prior to leaving, and while they are there, they will be able to gain plenty of skills themselves, as well as earn themselves a FAW (Football Association of Wales) certificate to help them get motivated, and help them get jobs or onto training courses.

There are still some places left to go, so if you’re between 16 and 24, in East Cardiff and think you want an adventure, get in touch! info@thesafefoundation.co.uk

If you want to help by donating to this project, which will help us buy resources we need to get the job done, you can by clicking here!

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.

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!

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!