Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity

“When I broke down, the Macmillan nurse told me about Rainbow Trust.
I contacted them immediately and felt I’d been given a lifeline” Lisa, mother of Mia.

Every year 10,000 families in the UK face the unimaginable death of their child. No one expects to out-live their children. The news that your child may die shatters families.

Our mission is to provide family centred care for children with a life threatening or terminal illness and their families, at times of crisis. Practical and emotional support is offered from diagnosis, through treatment and following bereavement within the family home and in the community.

The pressures on a family with a terminally ill child are extreme; siblings often feel left out as the attention of their parents, family and friends focuses on their sick brother or sister; parents struggle to keep their marriages together and the sick child often suppresses their emotions in order not to cause the family any more pain.

Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity was established in 1986 to provide a unique and special service to these families, enabling them to maintain a sense of normality and to be on hand when we are needed most.

We can be contacted for support at any stage of illness and, very importantly, there is no time limit to the care we provide. We will stay with a family until they feel they can cope without our support, sometimes for several years after a child dies. Care is provided to families, irrespective of circumstance, ethnicity, social background, nationality or religion. Those who need us most are often socially disadvantaged and many are single parent families with little or no extended family support network.

No other charity or body provides the extent of professional care and consistency of contact as Rainbow Trust. Our work is a vital emotional and practical lifeline to those who turn to us. Many of the families we work with tell us we give them the strength to carry on.

How Enduro India Supports Rainbow Trust

Rainbow Trust has eight teams of Family Support Workers operating from bases across the country, these offer immediate help to families in need.

Enduro India has supported Rainbow Trust since 2003 and has to date donated more than £270,000 that’s around £40,000 every year. These incredible donations are made possible through the fundraising efforts of you the participants and they fund Bryan, the Manager of our Family Support Team based in Swindon.

Caring for a very sick child can be extremely traumatic, demanding and isolating for both the parents and the healthy siblings, Bryan provides hands on, practical and emotional support for families with a terminally ill child.

Performing a role most of us couldn’t contemplate, Bryan helps to keep the households of the families he supports running, by helping with hospital trips, performing household duties, taking the siblings to school, and looking after them when parents remain in hospital with their sick child.

In many cases Bryan provides care during the final stages of a child’s life.

“It really helped that our Family Support Worker could talk about how other families cope with similar situations, it made me feel less desperate.” Sue, mum to Daniel.

We are incredibly grateful for the ongoing support of Enduro India. If you would like to find out more please visit our website www.rainbowtrust.org.uk or contact me on 01372 220013 or email sarah.tuckwell@rainbowtrust.org.uk we would love to hear from you.

Sarah Tuckwell
Regional and Community Fundraising Manager
Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity

Save the Children

Save the Children work flat out to ensure children get proper healthcare, food, education and protection.

We’re saving lives in emergencies, campaigning for children’s rights and improving their futures through long-term development work. We work with children in the UK and across the world. Our vital work saves and improves children's lives in more than 50 countries. Over the last year we've reached almost 6 million children.

In October 2009 we launched our largest ever campaign EVERY ONE - a global campaign to stop children from dying. We have pledged to save the lives of 500,000 children every year. By the time you finish reading this sentence a child will have died. A child whose life we could have saved. It doesn’t have to be a serious disease; rather they will have died from an illness like pneumonia or diarrhoea, with a simple cure.

This is not because it is expensive; something as simple as a clean razor blade could have prevented death of a baby from the fatal infection of an umbilical cord. In 2008 nearly nine million children did not live to see their fifth birthday. The death rate of a child born in Angola is 27 times higher than that of a child born in England.

Global Enduro is supporting our EVERY ONE project work in India. 20% of the children under-five who die each year are born in India. A cheap and effective method of reducing mortality through applying home-based neonatal care; has shown an astounding 70% reduction in neonatal mortality. We look forward to working together to save and improve the lives of children in India.

For more information contact; Joanna Soanes, Philanthropy and Partnerships – 020 70120 6474

j.soanes@savethe children.org.uk

www.savethechildren.org.uk

Adventure Ashram

"Education should be aimed at learning to live, learning to learn and learning to earn, and in that order" Dr Arun Kolhatkar.

Adventure Ashram exists to help the poorest people on the Global Enduro routes through southern India and the Himalayas to achieve a higher standard of living and to raise their expectations by providing access to better health and education. It aims to take health and social care and educational support to the heart of these communities and into remote rural villages. In some situations, it is possible to move whole communities nearer to the resources they so badly need through voluntary resettlement programmes and this is something that Adventure Ashram is working on.

The inter-related problems as specified by the World Health Organisation are predominant in these areas. For many people, access to proper medical facilities is not an option. Transport is non-existent and as daily wage earners or as subsistence farmers, villagers simply cannot afford to travel to hospitals or pay for medical care. Similarly, education is crucial to the achievement of Adventure Ashram’s objectives. Although it may not yield instant results, it is imperative to changing hearts and minds and aspirations of remote communities and to the achievement of physical, mental and social well-being of rural communities.

At the end of 2009, Adventure Ashram’s trustees sanctioned funding for an exciting new project in southern India with funding allocated to roll out over the next three years which is very much at the heart of Adventure Ashram’s objectives. The project aims to relocate remote settlements which are undergoing severe deprivation to areas where they can access basic healthcare, education, communications and transport. Work on this project will begin in 2010.

For more information about Adventure Ashram please visit www.adventureashram.co.uk

Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS)

Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS), Bengaluru is a non-profitable charitable trust registered in 1984 under the Indian Trusts Act 1952. CWS is recognized as a "Scientific and Industrial Research Organization" (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. CWS is the chief implementation partner for research, conservation and capacity-building projects supported in India by the Wildlife Conservation Society, New York (www.wcs.org).

CWS works on the development of rigorous methods to monitor wildlife populations and also conducts training for field biologists, Forest Department staff and NGO volunteers in monitoring wildlife populations. Over the years, CWS has built a strong cadre of local conservation and research volunteers across the country. It has conducted more than 50 field training workshops in 14 sites across India in which more than 1000 volunteers including forest department staff in all states have participated. CWS training has also attracted and inspired hundreds of amateur naturalists, wildlife enthusiasts, potential wildlife biologists, wildlife activists, teachers, students and people from all walks of life. CWS has established a permanent Field Research Station near Bhadra Tiger Reserve in the Karnataka State of India to impart training in wildlife research and conservation.

The main objectives of the Trust are:

• To promote and carry out activities related to scientific study, appreciation and conservation of natural habitats and wildlife with special emphasis on ecological field studies.

• To build the capacity of individuals and institutions to conduct research in conservation science and promote science based conservation by conducting both non-formal and formal education and training.

• To aid and assist the government and civil society institutions in improving the scientific management of nature reserves, zoos and wildlife habitats in the country.

• To undertake research on all aspects of wildlife including ecological impacts of biomass extraction, industrial mining and construction projects on ecosystems and wildlife habitats.

• To promote conservation objectives by means of books, pamphlets, periodicals, brochures, audiovisual, video graphic, photographic and other communication techniques.

The funds generated by Enduro India 2011 will go to support tiger research, monitoring and conservation activities being guided by Dr. Ullas Karanth in the Western Ghats of Karnataka which is also along the route of Enduro's motor rallies. Western Ghats in Karnataka State, known as Malenad-Mysore Tiger Landscape (MMTL), and adjacent areas in Tamil Nadu and Kerala States, harbour one of the largest wild tiger populations in the world. Dr. Ullas Karanth, Director of Centre for Wildlife Studies at Bangalore and a Senior Scientist with the New York based Wildlife Conservation Society has been studying and monitoring tigers and their prey species since1986 as well as guiding several local non-governmental groups working on tiger conservation in the region. He also serves on a number of conservation advisory bodies of State and Federal Governments. As a result of this collective work of non-governmental and governmental agencies, these wild tigers in MMTL are relatively secure and are being monitored closely using the best of science.

For more information about CWS please visit www.cwsindia.org
or contact K. Ullas Karanth on 0091-80-25591747