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What you cannot do by yourself, can be done if you just let someone help you and this was the case when we came across an amazing charity know as Children Of Adam.
They are a UK based charity that participates in multiple projects in the UK and around the world.
One of their projects that court our attend was, that they would work with the homeless by facilitating in handing out food packs, clothing and sleeping bags.
We got in contact with them and they gave us an opportunity to work alongside them. With the help and generous donations of friends, family and our local community we were able to fill an entire van of food packs and distribute them to those in need across London.
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We were informed that there was a collection being made for the children of Syria. With the celebration of Eid in this once beautiful country, were street would be light up, now due to the war and famine this was no longer the scene.
This meant that young children were not able to celebrate how they once would that also meant no getting together or receiving any gifts. This saddened us deeply and we came together as a community and collected gifts for children. the donations we received varied from colouring books to toys, arts and crafts and many more.
We were able to successfully put together gift boxes that had been sent and received to the children of Syria. Yet again we could not have been able to achieve this without the help of our communities.
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Gems of Faith went to Morocco to do some charity work with an organisation called Original Volunteers, they had multiple projects set up, which included visiting an orphanage, school with special needs children, and a primary school which catered for disadvantage children. WE attended all the tasks set out for us to do, and we where amazed with the welcoming and love that we had received.
we also made food packs for the homeless. This experience made us learn what is truly feels to be humble and grateful and have so little. WE had been blessed to have met amazing people that wanted nothing from us but wanted our time to listen to their stories, and those stories motivated us to want to do more.
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The calais jungle, officially known as camp de la Lande was a host to thousands of refugees that had fled from their war torn countries.
Refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and many more countries had taken these life threatening journeys with their families and small children across treacherous seas in desperation and hopes of a safer life. Seeing how these refugees and migrants where living in this former landfill turned shanty town really broke our hearts and we decided to lend them a helping hand and do what we could. With the help and support of our local community we were able to collect a van full of supplies and donations such as clothes, duvets shoes and many more.
We were able to distribute these supplies across the jungle to many of the refugees. When visiting the refugee’s camps we are able to listen to their stories and we realised how these people were once just like us with beautiful families, warm cosy house and successful jobs. We quickly realised the realities of this world and how one minute you can have it all and the next it can all be gone, with a blink of an eye. We thought we were going to help them but left with a great big lesson that nothing truly is forever.
The refugee’s warm welcome and appreciation of life despite being in their situation was overwhelming and life changing. We were filed with gratitude and humbled by this blessed opportunity.
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As we all know there are many countries around the world suffusing from poverty and drought as a cause of this there are many families going without clean water to drink. Many young women and children are having to travel miles and miles on foot to collect just even a small amount of water for their families.
Then there are those who, through no choice of their own, are having to wash and drink unsanitary water which increases their risks of getting severely ill and in some extreme cases lead to death. One of the countries that had come to our attention that was going through this crisis was Pakistan.
We as a group got in contact with human appeal to find ways to help. Human appeal is an non-profit organisation working across the globe to strengthen humanity’s fight against poverty, social injustice and natural disaster. Through the provision of immediate relief and the establishment of self-sustaining development programmes, they aim to invest in real, effective solutions.”
Being a successful charities organisation and seeing the work they had done across the globe we decided they were the best organisation at the time to entrust all the funds we had successfully collect through our local community and send through their aid workers to build a well were most needed in Pakistan. By the will of god and the help of this charity we were able to successfully build a fully functioning water well that provided clean water to hundreds of people in a town in Pakistan.