I have been fortunate with a small nursing grant and the release of some my NHS pension been able to do what I had longed to do... Get up off my sofa from watching the crisis unfold on the TV news and get out to help and meet up with the family. What an amazing privilege. I love travelling and meeting people and in the past traveled to many places including lived in India... I have always been part of the community where ever I go..... I enjoy learn and sharing in communities. Even in my relief work in Romania after the revolution I would sit in the homes of locals and listen and find out about their pain and experiences.
I have however not come to this point in my life a woman of substance to be able to quietly manage this project. I am very reliant now on funding. All my attempts now to write to trusts, organisations, MPs, MEPs and even presidents and Speaker of the House.... all have brought email responses to commend this work and respect all I am doing. But I am in a tricky situation as funding is there for help with refugees but only for organisations not individual carer/befrienders.
I have had emails today from a couple of UK based trusts and they are unable to help with funding as this work extends out of the UK. But one at least is happy to promote my project in the hope that donations, fundraising, pathways to grants that could be positively offered and sponsors may be excited to help me....
This project is my life. I shall continue to research on the issues and search for grants and sponsors and long term funding. This project has great potential and lots of caring, learning and sharing at its core.
While I am grounded in the UK I can offer
- To present a talk on the project with a donation to fund raising......with this also help raise awareness of a cause for your organisation or group, as we blog and promote the event on social media.
- Those wishing to improve conversational English I do hold a TEFL cert and can meet up to help you. I am in London we can have cafe table lessons in great places...So contact me if you need me to help you - fee is donation to the fundraising.
- Do you need any help with a project of yours for fee of donation to my project.
- Is there any paid work that you think I could help with.
- Do you have concert gig where I can come along to promote my project and we do a joint social media promotion.
- As grandmother I can babysit too :-) so contact me fee donation to the Family Link Project.
Any ideas for fundraising please contact me email marjoriesyardATgmail.com
