Natalya's Fund
for underprivileged children and young people overseas
Apollo was a street child from Iringa, Tanzania, but now has a certificate to enable him to set up as a taxi driver
Street children in Iringa, Tanzania, are given the opportunity to learn to use these machines with a view to setting up in business.
This severely disabled child can be moved with greater dignity and safety by use of this hoist, provided by Natalya's Fund through the Belarusian Orphanage Project (UK Charity). The hoist is not fixed but is on castors, so can be used in different situations.
Working through Love Russia we gave toothbrushes and toothpaste to children from Ribnoe Orphanage, Russia.
Rescued from streets of St Petersburg, Russia, by the New Life Street Children's Project, with support from Natalya's Fund. New Life was part of the ministry of YWAM (Youth With A Mission).
Music lesson for children displaced from one African country to another; run by a youth worker / musician; music is part of their healing.
These children would otherwise have been amusing themselves on the construction site where their parents were working. Natalya's Fund provided craft materials.
This girl is one of many children who received dental treatment (in most cases for the first time in their lives). The dentist gave up several weeks to travel with the Convoy of Hope across European Russia, using equipment provided by Natalya's Fund, fitted into a camper van.
for underprivileged children and young people overseas
Our Overseas Mission
We are a UK charity with a mission to support underprivileged children and young people overseas, providing tangible items requested by the children's carers.
Our Home Mission
Giving is a joy - letting go of a gift, allowing the blessing to go to others who are less well off. It's an investment in another's life, but also an investment in ourselves. Who knows how far the goodness of that gift spreads? It may go beyond the material world and enter the spiritual.
See more on our mission here.
Current Projects
IRINGA STREET CHILDREN
One hundred and ninety-three street children will now be able to take up their free school places this year, thanks to our supporters' donations added to money already raised by our partner, FISCH.
In Tanzania the school year begins in January, and the government there provides school places for all children, both at primary and at secondary level. However, pupils must supply their own uniform and stationery, and that is beyond the street children.
We have sent FISCH £3,828 to ensure that no child misses out. Whilst in the UK uniform and stationery might not be at the top of a typical child’s Christmas list, in Tanzania it means such a lot! It was a wonderful Christmas present.
Implementing - not currently fundraising
TOOLS FOR SELF-RELIANCE
The shipment left the Tools for Self-Reliance (TSR) warehouse near Southampton on 17 November, and is due to arrive in Mozambique at the end of January; from there it will be transported by land to Blantyre, Malawi. It will provide kits of refurbished carpentry tools to five locations in the country. The kits will be used to give vocational training to young people, and to help them start up in business. Many thanks to the team at TSR for despatching the goods ahead of schedule.
Implementing - not currently fundraising
When you give to a project,
100% of the money you give goes to that project!
Nothing is taken out for our administration, transaction fees, etc.
How to Give
LIFE-SKILLS THROUGH SPORT
Life-skills, through the medium of sport, for the 'fatherless generation' in South Africa - providing prizes, equipment and kit - balls, Bibles, slalom poles, socks and boots - for holiday clubs and weekly coaching.
Emerging from lockdown, sports are resuming, and gift-bags have been distributed to the children.
The fallow time during lockdown was used to develop plans to increase the reach and effectiveness of the work.
Implementing - not currently fundraising
'WHERE NEEDED MOST' Fund
If we have reached our fundraising objectives for all our projects, donations will be held in our 'Where Needed Most' Fund. This money will be used, when needed, to extend current projects, or to maintain them, or to fund a new project.
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