WHERE DO WE WORK? SKCV is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian charity working in
the UK in many areas, especially The Northwest. Our main
thrust is to gain help and raise awareness of the sister
Indian Trust which is working with, and for, homeless
children in Vijayawada City, a large, bustling town in
the southern Indian State of Andhra Pradesh.
Why Vijayawada & Coastal Andhra
Pradesh - South India?
The
Trust was invited by SKCV-India to set up a programme in 1987 when no help was
available
Vijayawada is known as the
gateway between North and South India.
It's busy railway station
acts as a lure to the children
Children who eke out a
miserable, disease-ridden existence begging or
working as rag pickers and luggage carriers for as
little as 10 pence a day.
There are an estimated
19,000 street children in Vijayawada which has a
population of 815,000. SKCV cannot help all them, but with your generosity it
could help many more.
HOW DO WE WORK?
The UK arm of the charity is run on a voluntary
basis by the founder's Mother Mrs. Patricia Norton, and the UK
Trustees. The Holland arm is run by ex-volunteers who have taken the
initiative to help. We put on fund-raisers, hold exhibitions and
photograph shows. We speak at functions, meetings,
schools, churches and Colleges. We also address Rotary
and Lions Clubs etc., and have regular newsletters. SKCVUK are
in touch all the time with the India SKCV Management and
children through email, phone, fax and more recently
Internet Chat.
SKCV has nine trustees who work
voluntarily throughout the UK to raise money and gifts.
The trustees come from all walks of life from commerce
and industry to medicine, finance and the media. Most of
them, have visited the charity projects in India
at least once and received the unforgettable welcome
extended to all visitors. The Founder
resides with his wife and family in India at the Children's
Village.
Mrs. Norton and the trustees
are supported by a growing band of volunteers up and down
the country on whose fund-raising efforts SKCV depends in
order to feed, clothe and educate its ever-expanding
family.
Fund-raising events cover a wide spectrum from
traditional "coffee mornings" and "bring
and buy" sales to a charity screening in Manchester
of the film ‘City of Joy’ hosted by Art Malik
who co-starred in this moving film about the Calcutta
slum with Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins. Malik, best
known for his role as Hari Kumar in ‘Jewel in the
Crown ‘ later went on to make ‘True Lies’
With Arnold Schwarzenegger and other smash hits.
All this has been made possible by public
donations in the UK, Holland and India.
