The Umeed Partnership Project has been successful in its bid through the Rotary International Matching Grants Scheme. A grant of $16,190 (funded jointly by Bangor Rotary Club, Lahore Cosmopolitan Rotary Club and Rotary District 1180) has been awarded to support developments at the Umeed Primary School in Minority Community 18 in the Cholistan Desert in...
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The Outreach Committee of St Andrew’s Church in Bedford has very generously awarded a grant of £1000 to the Umeed Project. Subject to the agreement of the Committee, this will be used to improve the facilities in the new Umeed Middle School in Minority Community DB 58 near Bahawalpur.
Rotary Matching Grant – successful bid for funds
Bangor Rotary Club Grant
Bangor Rotary Club has awarded a grant of £500 to the Umeed Partnership for the purchase of furniture and educational equipment for the new multi-faith Umeed Middle School in the Bahawalpur District of southern Punjab in Pakistan. This is surely an example of an organisation with vision understanding that reconciliation between peoples of different faiths and cultures can be achieved...
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George and Mary Crosfield Charitable Trust
In April 2010 the Trustees of the George and Mary Crosfield Charitable Trust awarded a further grant of £400 to the Umeed Project (£400 had already been awarded in July 2009). James Crosfield, one of the Trustees, remarked that the Umeed Partnership Mission Statement coincided exactly with the objectives and principles of the Trust, which had...
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BHP Billiton Petroleum
In May 2009 a donation of £8750 was received from BHP Billiton under its employee contributions Matched Giving Program to support Umeed’s existing activities in Pakistan. It goes without saying that this has provided a life-line for the Umeed Schools; Women’s Education and Embroidery Centres; and Woodworking and Carpentry Workshops.
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Porthmadog Prifio week
During a week in Porthmadog in March 2009 in which Bishops Richard Holloway and John Spong exercised the minds of participants on religious belief in the modern world in the Prifio events. John Perkins sought support for the Umeed project with the agreement of the organising committee. Donations totalling £1148 were received – a magnificent result....
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