Faye organises another great team and Fun Day!

Do you remember how difficult it was to find runners for the London 10K  this year?

Faye's 2013 team 

 Danny was as active as usual and now that school has started again he will soon be letting us know how much his team raised by sponsorship. 

Faye's charity came to our rescue again and ran to raise funds for  Brighter Future. 

Faye's 2015 team

Faye's 2015 10K team collected £4500 in sponsorship and they are donating it to Brighter Future for a very special and specific project at our Shanti Nivas campus in Vizianagaram district. 
Faye has been supporting Brighter Future since meeting Victor and Danny in 2014. Faye has been out to see Victor and his work in coastal Andhra Pradesh.Victor visited Faye and her family when he was in England in June this year.

Faye and her supporters are raisng funds to build a Mother's Home for women who are HIV+ and have no where to live. They may have been evicted from the traditional joint-family home after their husbands died. Many were blamed for his death! Others are evicted from rented accommodation because they have HIV. Yet others cannot pay  rent  for a roof over their heads as they have no income other than what they can glean by begging. One of our ladies lives in a shelter of leaves built for her, near the railway line, by some students.

 Brighter Future always tries to respond to local needs. Victor and his staff see what  the situation is where they operate and try to offer a solution.

 That is how the idea of a Mother's home was born. It is not a new idea. Brighter Future India first mooted the idea of a Mother's home in 2012 when the Shanti Nivas campus opened its doors to the HIV+ children of Thompson House and when the Hospice. There was room to build, but as usual, there was no money to build a home.Now Faye has come to the rescue and has taken on the not inconsiderable burden of raising funds for the project. (If any one would like to 'chip in' they are most welcome!)
 

Eight brave souls!

Faye and eight friends did a sponsored swim at Brighton last month. It made me shiver to see the photos of them in the water! Faye said it was very cold for the swim between the two piers.  They also had the problem of the current changing to cope with at the end of the swim.  This event was part of a 'Fun Day' and raised £1000 towards the Mother's Home project. What a wonderful and inspiring person Faye is!. 

A huge thankyou to all Faye's friends and their sponsors.