As a baby, Gautam Lewis received care and support at CINI's Emergency Ward in Kolkata. He is now living in London, and has a photo exhibition called "Full Circle" due to run from 13th October - 19th October 2008 at the Mernier Chocolate Factory, 53 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU. The exhibition will feature the story of his early childhood, how he ended up living in London, and how he is now trying to help other disadvantaged young children in India, particularly those suffering from polio.
weblink: www.freedom-in-the-air.com
The sponsored fast team for July have now set up their online sponsorship pages. Please support their efforts by sponsoring them online by clicking on the links below. Or if you are interested in joining in the August fast, please email karenallonby@ciniuk.org for more details
Isabelle Pelly - www.justgiving.com/isabellepelly
Sophia Furber - www.justgiving.com/furberfastsforcini
Shelly Raj - www.justgiving.com/shellyraj
Rima Shah - www.justgiving.com/rimashah
Sana Usman - www.justgiving.com/sanausman
Heather Tomlinson - www.justgiving.com/heathertomlinson
If you make http://cini-friends.com.charityhomepages.com/ your homepage and use it for your searches instead of Google, Ask.com will donate an average of 7p per search you do to the work of the Child In Need Institute (CINI) to help poor women and children in India. This will generate flexible funding for the charity at no cost to you!
If you do 25 searches a week, this will raise enough in a month to provide the food and medicines needed to nurse a severely malnourished child back to health each month.
All you need to do is go to http://cini-friends.com.charityhomepages.com/ now and then choose 'tools' then 'internet options' to make this your default home page
Please email the CINI UK team at info@ciniuk.org to let them know you have done this as they are keen to have 1,000 people helping CINI in this way by the end of the year. And it would really help if you could persuade your friends to help in this way too.
14th April 2008
Dear Friends
You may have heard recent reports about the rising prices of staples such as rice and wheat. There has been a warning given by the President of World Bank that this will push many countries to food riots and of course lead to more malnutrition in children.
Many of my CINI colleagues in Kolkata, have complained about the rise in the price of wheat, rice, legumes (dal) and cooking oil, the basic food of the poor, by almost 30 to 40 %, as compared to last year. This is having a profound impact on the families with which we work.
It means that the poor are cutting down on other vital expenses such as education and clothes. And the poorest will eventually have to cut down on food intake. This deficit of calories and protein during pregnancy and early childhood will have grave consequences. We expect to see a rise in morbidity which will translate to frequent bouts of common illnesses such as diarrhoea and respiratory infections in children as the malnutrition levels rise.
We will keep a watch on whether our mother and child health clinic attendance increases along with admissions at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre and Emergency Ward over the next few months. Unfortunately the high morbidity season, which is from May to August, is already with us and we normally expect more attendance during this period.
We will promote our low cost nutritious food, CINI NUTRIMIX which is available at the subsidised price of 5 rupees [less than 1p] per packet of 500g, (one third of the real market price) and provides a week's supplement of calories and protein to children below 5 years or pregnant women, as well as continuing to teach mothers how to make this at home.
I do hope you will be able to continue your support through the difficult period we expect to face over the coming months.
Warmest regards
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Dr Samir Chaudhuri
Founder and Director of CINI India |
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or send a cheque payable to CINI UK to CINI UK, Suite 631, 456-458 Strand, London, WC2R 0DZ
CINI UK has been selected to feature in the Good Gifts Catalogue (www.goodgifts.org). You can buy SF10 - Medical fund for street children or 6034 10 Safe Births.
The price of the gift is passed on to CINI UK and other charities in full. So, it is an excellent way of solving your gift problems, and supporting our work.
The Good Gifts Catalogue has a wedding list and wish list service, particularly suitable for special occasions like anniversaries or significant birthdays. You can use Good Gifts as in memoriam presents and keep a few in stock for unexpected birthdays or Christmas gifts.
The purchaser gets a card to give, or keep, acknowledging the gift, along with the guarantee that the gift is always wanted.
Ethical, recycled and fairtrade products are being sold by yourtomorrow.co.uk with 5% of the retail price coming to CINI UK and its work to help poor women and children in India.
For more information see www.yourtomorrow.co.uk
Spread some ethical cheer in aid of CINI UK with these beautiful cards taken from original hand drawings by Bristol artist Cordelia Cembrowicz. The cards are blank inside for your own message and are printed on recycled paper and come with recycled envelopes.
Find out more about the artist at: www.cembrowicz.co.uk.
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Cost: £2 each or £9 for a pack of 10.
40p from every card will be donated to CINI UK
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