Welcome to the Dominica Place of Safety blog. NCH, the children’s charity, works in the UK and internationally to improve the lives of vulnerable children.

http://www.justgiving.com/dominicaplaceofsafety

Welcome to the Dominica Place of Safety blog. NCH, the children’s charity, works in the UK and internationally to improve the lives of vulnerable children.

As well as our 500 projects in the UK which help 178,000 children, young people and their families, we also support work to improve the lives of children and young people in 23 countries across the Caribbean, Southern Africa, and Eastern Europe.

We need your help to complete a groundbreaking project on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean.

NCH staff in Dominica are currently in contact with abandoned and abused children who are in need of dedicated care and protection, while efforts are made to find loving homes. For example, one child is currently living in a hospital because she has nowhere else to go.

The Dominica ‘Place of Safety’ will be the first ever 24 hour residential home for abused and abandoned children on this Caribbean island. The home will be able to look after 100 children each year, giving them a secure and loving place of refuge. We have started work on the building, and now we need your help to complete and equip it. This is the first project of its kind, and it is absolutely vital that we complete it as soon as possible, because right now we know of victims of abuse and homeless children who have nowhere safe to go.

http://www.justgiving.com/dominicaplaceofsafety

To donate to this project go to

http://www.justgiving.com/dominicaplaceofsafety

This project is looking to raise £300,000 by October 2008 and more money is desperately needed.

They are asking for a minmum donation of just £2.00 and here is what the money can buy:

95 donating members = a store of clean clothing for each child or young person in our care

450 donating members = a fully equipped Baby Room, providing facilities for three abandoned babies

500 donating members = a fully equipped mother and baby room, for a woman seeking refuge from homelessness or domestic violence to care for herself and her child in safety

1000 donating members = a Counselling Room with specialist materials to give therapy and guidance to children who have suffered abuse

2000 donating members = a Children’s Library, with books and magazines and one computer station, providing a place of interest and learning

62,500 donating members = all internal furnishing and equipping costs for the facility

150,000 donating members = a completely fitted-out facility, from window frames and office furniture, to play equipment and learning materials, and funding to enable us to provide this place of refuge for children and families in need for many years to come.

http://www.justgiving.com/placeofsafety

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