News from Tadworth & Walton Overseas Aid Trust
We heard in mid-January from the school on the Thai border where we provide lunches for refugee children from Myanmar and which had had to close late last year due to a COVID outbreak. All the children were to be given COVID vaccinations during the following week and after that the school would resume normal lessons. Unfortunately the situation in Myanmar itself, just over the border, is very bad with fighting between the army and resistance groups and reprisals against civilians. It seems very unlikely that the refugees could return to their homes in the foreseeable future.
We have started to plan TWOAT activities for 2022 and the first one will be an online auction of generously donated offerings from local providers of health, fitness and well-being services. A link from our web site www.TWOAT.org will take you to the auction which will end on Sunday March 5th. We hope that you will find offers that might improve your own lives whilst helping some of the poorest communities in the world to improve their lives as well.
Keith & Elizabeth Lewis have kindly offered to open their garden at 41 Shelvers Way in aid of TWOAT during the afternoon of Sunday April 24th whilst two other supporters one in Tadworth and one in Kingswood have also offered to open their gardens for us during the Summer. Open Gardens are both an enjoyable way for us to raise funds and unlikely to be impacted by any further developments on the COVID front so we will be delighted to have any further offers from anyone reading this.
We hope to run our usual bottle tombola at the Walton May Fayre on Saturday May 21st.
The dates for our two John Allinson Memorial Sponsored Walks have been set as Friday June 10th and Saturday June 18th – they will both start from Headley.
In addition we hope to organise some Zoom presentations by representatives from projects we support – details will be published on our web site www.TWOAT.org
Mike Fox, Chair