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AMCR
–UPDATE – SUMMER 2011
Loch Ness swim
This was completed successfully in August 2010.
Click here for a summary and report
5 Km Hyde Park Fun Run
On 5 September 2010 six young women from the Hounslow Youth Offending Services decided to run in the above event as a team in orderto raise funds for the AMCR Charity. Click here for a report of this event
Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race – April 2011
Iona Stewart-Richardson, the grand-daughter of the AMCR chairman Brigadier Peter Stewart-Richardson, together with Joe another Old Marlburian decided to take up the challenge of this very arduous race along the Devizes canal and river Thames, to raise money for this her grandfather’s charity.
Her mother, Janie, had already raised funds for the same charity by doing a free-fall tandem parachute drop 7 years ago.
A full account of Iona’s endurance is here. She and Joe managed to raise £2238 for the charity.
Their effort is greatly appreciated.
Bakeries
Due to the cost of flour and the opening of tea-houses in the Panjsher Province it is unlikely that the village bakeries will re-open.
Comprehensive Health Centres' Delivery Rooms
These are now operating successfully and the Ministry of Public Health is supplying midwives who have undergone one and a half year’s training. Most come from the areas where the Delivery Rooms are situated so are content to remain working in or near their villages.
Two of these CHCs do not have adequate water supplies. The very excellent US Provincial Reconstruction Team are doing surveys and advising on this matter. It is hoped that a solution will be found before the end of this year.
The charity Just a Drop had generously agreed to donate funds to cover some of the costs of a filtration plant which has been built in the Darre clinic.
While a USAID engineer is surveying the springs in the area of the Shutol clinic.
As water is such a precious commodity any spring located or well dug has to result from a village consensus which is time-consuming.
Evening school in the village of Sangana
The old bakery in the village has been turned into the evening school and a second floor is being added as the number of pupils has increased to from 50 to 70.
Rahilah, the facilitator from UN(Habitat) is the voluntary supervisor of this initiative while AMCR provides the wages for the two female teachers – Maleka and Delbar.
2011 and 2012
The charity’s efforts will be concentrated on resolving the water problems mentioned above, and keeping the evening school going.
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