July Update
- At June 24, 2012
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June Update
- At June 06, 2012
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Kate (Neil) has just returned from her annual summer visit to our STB Children.
They are enjoying school holiday time now and Kate reports that they are all well and happy!
More news of the new house building project to follow in her report.
May update
- At May 21, 2012
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Greeting from Jenny
- At March 24, 2012
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My dear friends and supporters of Star Action,
I have recently returned from a very rewarding visit to Sri Lanka and India, with my colleague and co-founder of Star Action, Stuart.
We try to visit Sri Lanka twice a year, if possible, but certainly each February, so we can personally check on the progress of all the up and running projects and oversee the initiation of new endeavours. This visit has been very fruitful and I am particularly excited about our new community education project in the remote and formerly war-torn East Coast village of Mankerny, and also our ‘build a toilet’ scheme in a very poor fishing community on the West Coast.
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Sri Lanka: East Coast Community Project
- At March 24, 2012
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COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT
We have often recently heard our politicians projecting the future prospects of the United Kingdom in the term ‘Education, Education, Education’. However, in India and Sri Lanka this has been understood by every family for some time. Those who can go to school are given every assistance to do well by Mum and Dad, and those who cannot, and who have to contribute to the family income, crave an opportunity to attend and learn.
Read More»Fruit Farm Community Project
- At March 24, 2012
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Eastern Sri Lanka was hit hard by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and 30,000 lives were lost, homes and businesses destroyed and agriculture put back several years.
Our East Coast agent, Lal, proposed an experimental farm to grow new crops of fruit and vegetables that could be copied by families on their own small pieces of land. This idea was backed by Star Action last year and Lal has put £150 of his own money into it (probably 25% of his annual income).
Read More»Sri Lanka: West Coast Project
- At March 24, 2012
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BUILD-A-TOILET’ SCHEME
The Toilet challenges of British and European peoples are rarely mentioned in popular history books. 70 to 80 years ago many homes had no bathroom or toilet inside the house and 150 years ago most used a bucket to wash in and somebody else’s garden to complete their ablutions.
The Sri Lankan and Indian people love to be clean and go to great lengths to bath and wash their clothes daily. Imagine how distressing it is to have to live in a home with no bathroom and to have no alternative but to use the roadside or the beach every day as a lavatory.
Read More»Star Action Families
- At March 24, 2012
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In our last Newsletter we wrote about three individual families in our care in Sri Lanka, including our ‘triplets family’ and the family caring for our Little Temple. Although Maria, our ‘Temple guardian’ with her daughter Mabel and granddaughter Wasana) has now lost her elderly husband last September, and then sadly suffered a stroke herself, she is recovering well and has nearly regained the use of her left side, learning to walk again with a stick. All our families are very appreciative of Star Action’s care and support.
The triplet family are now self-supporting and all five children doing well—the two older girls being particularly clever at school.
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Asiakwa Project
- At March 01, 2012
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Latest News March 2012
Fred and Hamida are working for some months now in Kumasi, not far from Asiakwa. After a recent visit Hamida says: ‘We are currently putting the finishing touches to the building.’ She goes on to say that she has begun her teaching work at Kumasi University. We are all hoping that this will help her with the next stage of the project to get government grants and assistance from the Ghanaian Education Authorities in beginning the actual equipping and teaching work in the Centre.
Happy New Year
- At January 09, 2012
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Our dear Supporters of Star Action,
As we begin this New Year season we are writing to thank you for all your wonderful support of Star Action throughout 2011. We are really delighted at the progress which has been made in the completion of our building for the Vocational Training Centre in Asiakwa, Ghana, the subject of our appeal to you at the beginning of the year.
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