Preceeds for 2008 be split 50 : 50 between two charities
"EACH" and "Riders for Health"
What is EACH?
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) has three children’s hospice care services based at Milton in Cambridge, Ipswich and Quidenham in Norfolk. EACH is a registered charity which relies on public support for around 80% of its income.
There are an estimated 20,000 life-limited and life-threatened children in the UK. Caring for a child with a life-threatening illness, often for 24 hours a day, seven days a week over many years, can put a huge strain on family life. Often a child will need constant care through the day and night, and while families willingly invest love, energy and attention, life becomes completely governed by the relentless timetable of nursing and medical needs. Relationships can suffer, careers may have to be abandoned, healthy brothers and sisters can feel left out and regular family activities and holidays can be rare. On top of all this, families often feel alone and afraid in their grief.
EACH’s three multi-disciplinary care teams help life-threatened children and their families with the emotional and physical challenges they face, helping them to make the most of life. They welcome the whole family for a break together or time to themselves in a home-from-home environment or in the comfort of their own home. They offer a diverse range of services including: care at end of life, respite care, specialist play, music therapy, telephone support, practical help, advice and information and bereavement support for all family members.
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH)
www.each.org.uk
Registered Charity Number 1069284
Fundraising offices at:
Milton 42 High Street, Milton, Cambridge, CB24 6DF tel: 01223 205180
Quidenham Quidenham, Norwich, NR16 2PH tel: 01953 715559
Fundraising e-mail: funding@each.org.uk
What are Riders for Health?
Riders for Health have worked for over 15 years on the problem of delivery systems for healthcare in Africa. They work with ministries of health, UN agencies and other NGOs. Their main resource centre is in the UK while our programme staff are all nationals of the countries in which they work.
They are self-funded with no government support. Their origins are in the sport of motorcycle racing and successful fundraising at motorcycling events and races enables us to support our pioneering field initiatives, ensuring that motorcycles continue to save lives in Africa
Riders for Health is an international non-profit organisation born out of the world of motorcycle racing. Riders knows that transportation affects everything and acts accordingly in Africa with a practical, dynamic approach which is achieving real, sustainable development.
Riders currently has three national programmes (in the Gambia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria) where it has put in place reliable preventive maintenance systems for two and four wheeled vehicles used in health care delivery. We also have two smaller programmes working with other NGOs in Kenya and Tanzania.
This innovative work is managed by wholly-African teams, and means that health care in these areas is never undermined by vehicles failing, no matter how harsh the conditions. Riders is helping nearly 11 million people across Africa to have the basic health care we take for granted in the developed world, giving them the chance to fight disease and look forward to a healthier future.
3 New Street, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11 4BT. United Kingdom.
Tel: 01327 300047