Saphara teams give young people the opportunity to engage in issues of justice and global citizenship through working with educationally disadvantaged children in India. Saphara is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian organisation which welcomes young people from all backgrounds, races and religions.
Set out on a journey that will change your life forever.
Presentations of the 10 day trip in April 2014 will be held on
Wed 24 April at 1pm at Stranmillis College
Thurs 25 April at 1pm at St Mary’s College
This summer’s student trip is now closing. If you would like to get details contact Christine 07747611156.
Visiting Donk village is a real highlight of our Saphara summer teams and my personal favourite day. It’s wonderful to meet all the kids at Donk primary school whose education we totally fund. This summer, however, a tragic tale unfolded.
A girl called Aarti who I recognised as one of last year’s P7 girls was brought forward to tell how she had been married a few months earlier at the age of 13! Her parents were so poor that they had sold her off to get enough money to survive.
In my travels in India over the past 15 years I have seen many terrible sights abject poverty impossible to describe but this tore at my heart. A young girl whose life should have been full of freedom and potential taken out of school and forced to marry. We know that all sorts of poor outcomes result when girls are married this young risk of death during childbirth, risk of children dying young, malnutrition etc.
We need to do something and over the next weeks I’d like to share my plans with you.
In the meantime please watch this :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8xgF0JtVg
All Saphara students – anyone who has been on a Saphara team – are invited to the launch of our new students’ programme on
Fri 4 Jan at 12 noon at Queens University.
Details on the Saphara students’ Facebook page or contact Christine.
Make a difference with Saphara gifts
£20 will enable a child to attend school for 6 months by paying her teacher’s salary
£5 will buy a chair for a child in a school in a marginalized community
£10 will provide a uniform and books to enable a child to attend school
£15 for four chickens to provide a woman with income for her children
£25 for a goat to help sustain a poor rural family
Order gifts by completing SAPHARA CHRISTMAS GIFTS