Here is a list of the charities that we support via funds raised through Jomps' Trust.

In time, this will look much prettier!!! Click on the relevant charity name to go direct to their websites for more information.

ROSY - Respite care for Oxfordshire's Sick Youngsters. A charity set

up in Oxfordshire by a children's cancer ward nurse and her best

friend, a hairdresser. Specialist nursing care to enable terminally

ill children to stay at home rather than going into hospital on a

regular basis. Not only does this provide respite care (3hrs per

week when we last spoke) for the parents and siblings, but the sick

child, who is usually more worried about Mum and Dad than him

\herself, has an opportunity to voice any concerns to a familiar

face, who becomes as much a friend as a highly trained nurse. We'll

be raising more monies for them with the Halloween Ball, details of which will be announced soon.

KERALA LINK - a charity set up by a young teacher from Banbury, who

went out to Kerala on a term's placement. She started doing some

vocational teaching with severely handicapped youngsters who were

getting no education - set up a classroom, albeit basic, encouraging

skills through artwork primarily. When she returned to England, she

realised that these children would just go back to having nothing.

So she and her husband moved out to Kerala with their 3 young

children. They have set up a school and a women's project, mostly

funded through sponsorship and volunteering. Jomps' Trust has

provided them with a mini bus, so they are able to take the children

out and so broaden their horizons.

THE PATTAYA ORPHANAGE TRUST - This was started by an American

catholic priest from the Military who went out to Thailand and was

given an abandoned baby! This baby has now grown to around 1700

children - the trust looks after orphans, street children, disabled

children and children with HIV/Aids. Since the Tsunami, apart from

the increased number of orphans, the land was devastated so the Trust

has started up a series of school lunch farms to support the very

poor families and their malnourished children. The idea is that the

children grow their own lunches - this has the knock on effect of

learning about growing food, hygiene etc. Any surplus they can take

home to their families. This initiative was very much brought about

by Carl and Ann Gross from Deddington, who grow vegetables from their

large allotment to sell at the village Farmers' Market every month - every

penny goes to Pattaya.

COMPASSION DIRECT UK - this is a small charity set up by a human

dynamo! Ros Grant went to Buenos Aires in 1993 to look for

her father, an Italian prisoner of war. She found that he had died,

but that she had various half brothers and sisters out there. She

was so appalled by the conditions of the street children in B.A. that

she went back, created a dormitory for them, a bakery/ women's

project so that they would have food, and a sewing/women's project to

encourage local skills. And it has gone on from there! She sold up

in Cornwall, moved to outside Banbury, has completely self funded all

her trips to Argentina. She now has a very basic (no hot water yet!)

house in a suburb called Quilmes, and is spending more time out

there to make sure that her projects are being realised. The project

that's particularly interesting is on the Argentinian / Bolivian border.

This is the salt mines area, very high and very cold in winter and sparsely

populated. If children are lucky enough to go to school, they have long journeys

and stay all week, in very poor conditions. But it's also very

windy. Ros's project is to provide heating and light via a windmill

for each of the 12 schools in the region. Each windmill will cost

£1,500 and we're proud to say we've achieved our first windmill.