Trustees Visit India, In July two Trustees of New Hope Rural Community Trust visited the New Hope India projects. Eileen Thorpe has been a long time Trustee and make several visits and been keenly interested in the challenged children at Namaste House in Muniguda. Her career experience as a teacher has been a great help to the children. Elizabeth Toon has been several times to our […]
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News Letter Summer 2014, Dear Friends, Welcome to our summer newsletter! Thank you to Julia and the London team for your amazing fundraising! Thanks to all our amazing fund raisers! Looking out onto a warm sunny day in England as I write this, its hard to believe we were deluged by rain during the winter, with flooding that caused loss of life and devastated people’s homes […]
Bike Ride Tours in India; Off the tourist track 15 day tour of India – the charity bike ride of a life time! This unique experience is set to take place between 28.11.14 – 14.12.14. Our package includes: A planned 20/24km route each day. A support bus (option for non-riders to join). Train tickets for connections. Basic accommodation, food and bottled water. Hire of modern Atlas […]
Nails of Cross; The WHO (World Health Organization) keeps promoting the idea that leprosy has ended by saying its eradicated. Eradicated does not mean that those already affected, deformed, crippled and aged have disappeared – or vanished. There are literally thousands of leprosy patients, young people, in need of corrective surgery. Nails of Cross; It’s a fictional work. I believe that it is compatible to […]
Time for Compassion, In medieval times, leprosy was so prevalent across Western Europe that between the 12th- 14th centuries, several hundred leper hospitals or ‘lazard houses’ were built throughout England. Time for Compassion, ittle was understood about Leprosy or how it was spread, but its physical manifestations led to widespread fear and stigma. Time for Compassion: Lepers were rejected by their communities- outcast from their homes and families. […]
As part of Stepacross CIC commitment to helping others we also have developed a relationship with the New Hope Rural leprosy Trust and make donations to fund the essential work of the charity. New Hope was established originally to help those suffering from leprosy but since its work has expanded to include tribal people in general, street children and victims of ‘natural’ disasters. Since its foundation New […]