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Total raised so far

5%

£1,070.88 of £20,000 target +£183.75 Gift Aid See breakdown

Recent donations

7 years ago

Alex

£5.00

8 years ago

Anonymous

£30.00

A very worthy cause by a remarkable local woman

8 years ago

alison Steggals

£100.00

+ £25.00 Gift Aid

Wishing Jill Turner a happy, healthy and long retirement.

10 years ago

Jennifer Leybourne

£25.00

+ £6.25 Gift Aid

In memory of Ernie Tomlinson

10 years ago

David Avery

£25.00

+ £6.25 Gift Aid

In Memory of Ernie

10 years ago

James and Carol Saumarez

£100.00

+ £25.00 Gift Aid

In memory of Ernie Tomlinson who loved teaching in Africa

11 years ago

N Fenton

£25.00

+ £6.25 Gift Aid

Amazing work Deri!

11 years ago

MD

£50.00

11 years ago

Buster

£25.00

+ £6.25 Gift Aid

enjoy

11 years ago

Malc and Cass

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Just heard Deri on the radio and would like to help

The David Rundle Trust

Event dates: 13th January 2010 – 1st January 2020

Susan Vicary is raising money for The David Rundle Trust

My story

A few months after her husband?s (David) death, Deri was given the opportunity of working in the rain forest of Indonesian Borneo with the orang-utan. She felt this would probably be her salvation ? it was to be challenging, interesting hard work and extremely time consuming.

During her fourth year in Borneo, she met a vet who had been working with the mountain gorillas in Rwanda and he painted a gruesome picture of the situation out there, mainly due to the genocide and ensuing war and, although in her late sixties, she decided to accept another challenge and see the situation for herself. Unfortunately, she was not fully prepared for the horrors and poverty that greeted her, but could not turn her back on a people who were crying out for help in all directions, especially for clean water.

It soon became evident that, although she might be able to help, the task was enormous and a considerable amount of money would need to be injected if progress was to be made. So, in memory of her late husband, she formed the David Rundle Trust (Help for Rwanda) in order to help the people of Rwanda in three main areas ? CLEAN WATER SUPPLIES, EDUCATION and FAMILY PLANNING

Being on the spot for 2 ? 3 months of each year combined with six year?s hands on experience of the area enables the Trust to respond to many local needs in an effective and efficient way without involving the usual overheads.

All the Trust?s running costs are absorbed by Trust members and Deri pays for her own air fare, insurance, food etc. She does not stay in hotels but is accommodated in the villages where she works.

The Trust has built up a list of local contacts from labourers to medical volunteers to people in local government. When a need is identified the Trust can call on its pool of expertise and extend programmes that have already been tried and tested to a professional level. This was the case during the earthquake in Cyungugu when the Trust?s flexibility proved invaluable as it was able to react immediately to the needs of the moment and direct time and funds where they were needed most during this unexpected crisis.


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The David Rundle Trust

Charity number: 1099472

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