Archive for March, 2024
The Santon Group has also been instrumental in award-winning residential developments, particularly the conversion of listed buildings not currently in residential use, for almost 20 years.
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The Sandhu Charitable Foundation receive an up-date from Sightsavers surrounding their work helping to reach marginalised communities in desperate need of eye health services and treatments for debilitating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – at the same time sharing their plans for 2024. To this end, Sightsavers aims to perform over 499,000 sight-saving surgeries, distribute millions of treatments for blinding and debilitating NTDs, and provide over 1.2 million pairs of glasses.
They appreciate their plans are ambitious, but they believe that, with the right investment in health care, they can reduce poverty and disease, as well as improve school attendance and employment rates.
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The Sandhu Charity has approved a pledge of £10,000 to The Akshaya Patra Foundation by way of a Big Give Match Funding Campaign (“Beat Hunger in London’s Children with Nutrition”) they are running for the period 4th June 2024 to 18th June, 2024. The raised funds will be used not only towards feeding children in London through the Foundation’s existing Holiday Hunger programme, but also an exciting new initiative called ‘Hot Meals and Homework’. The Foundation are working with schools in disadvantaged areas to set up after-school clubs where Akshaya Patra provides a hot and nutritious vegetarian meal and the school provides teachers to stay behind and help children complete their homework.
The Foundation believe this programme, in time, may be their way to reach scale in a cost-efficient way across the United Kingdom.