Current Projects 2010

Afghanistan

Murad Khane Primary School Project
Murad Khane Primary School was founded in 2007. The school is located in a dilapidated part of Kabul. It now has 122 formally registered pupils between th eages of four and fourteen and up to eighty local children in supplementary classes. The school currently consists of three grades and a nursery. It is hoped to develop the school by a grade a year for the next three years.

Nepal

Adarsha Bal Vikas Kendra School Project
ABVK, (Adarsha Bal Vikas Kendra) is a school for physically and mentally handicapped children in Banepa, a small town about twelve miles east of Kathmandu, Nepal. The school is run by Mani Shrestha and has about 45 children and older students with severe learning difficulties and physical handicaps. JT have raised £2500 to support a new Physiotherapy unit at the school and we are currently trying to raise an additional £2500 in order to extend the reach of the unit to moiré of the surrounding villages.

Chobar School Project
Chobar School is a thriving centre of education for helpless children in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley and occupies a quiet hillside location overlooking the city. The education for the pupils is free and the pupils are hand picked, many being orphans or from very deprived backgrounds.  Jersey College has recently raised £3000 to install a new water tank at Chobar School in Nepal.

Tibet

The Tibet Vision Project
The Tibet Vision Project sponsors mobile eye surgery hospital units and trains local doctors to treat the epidemic of cataract blindness afflicting the Tibetan people. In their "Eye Camps", hundreds of poor Tibetans receive free eye care from Tibetan eye surgeons and nurses performing modern lens-implant cataract operations. The Juniper Trust has donated £2800 to Tibet Vision Aid to purchase a refurbished A-scan ultrasonic measuring device, to allow precise calculation for intraocular lens implant power for cataract surgery for the elderly. There is no limit to the amount of support they need.

Peru

Peru Solar Panel Project
Val Pitkethly has single handily been the driving force that has seen individual solar panels installed in over 1000 households in remote villages across northern Peru. The lanterns are all portable and each one holds a diode board containing 21 LED lights in housing about the size of a small loaf of bread.  Once again, we have been able to support the Peru Solar Panel Project with a £5000 donation to install Solar Panels to three villages in the Cordillera Huayhuash.

Kenya

Island School Project
Island School is located in Ol Maisor, a small village beneath Mount Kenya. Jo Richardson Community School have raised £4000 to help build three new concrete classrooms to replace existing mud hut classrooms, which were badly in need of repair. The Juniper Trust has matched the money raised by Jo Richardson Community School and we look forward to seeing the completed project. Jo Richardson Community School are already planning their third visit to the school in 2011.