Saving Lives, Creating Hope

IPASC is an organisation founded by Pat Nickson in 1992, which provides community health and training for community health workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The DR Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world. The UN statistics identify the DRC as having the highest deprivation in the world. IPASC works primarily in Aru district in the north east of the country, where most families have an income of less than 150 per year and life expectancy is 48. The government provides no funding for preventative health care and so IPASC has to raise every penny it spends. IPASC does stunning work and this is an opportunity to help them to support their local communities.

Trip to Arua

Gift: A Life Sustaining Journey

50 pays for a life-sustaining trip for people who are HIV positive to a hospital in Uganda. (There is no treatment for people needing anti retroviral medication in most of the DR Congo). 50 will pay for IPASC to take 10 people across the border to Arua in Uganda and sustain their treatment. Currently there is a long waiting list of people needing to make these regular trips.

Gift: A Weeks Food Distribution

10 pays for the weekly food distribution for HIV positive mums or those looking after children orphaned through HIV/AIDS. Folks come from all around on foot and by bicycle to collect food which keeps them going when families and communities have often ostracised them.

150 pays for a fresh water supply for a community. After malaria, water borne diseases are the biggest health problem 2,000 cases in the local health centre, last year. Yet 150 is enough to support the local community to create a fresh and clean water supply. The local community does the work with advice from IPASC. 150 pays for the materials needed. IPASC delivered 19 such water supplies last year. Their co-ordinator suggested they could deliver three times as many if the resources were available.

Gift: A fresh water supply

Gift: An Awareness Raising Trip

20 will pay for an awareness raising trip to outlying villages and rural communities where pre-natal care is very basic. The Safe Motherhood Programme involving both awareness raising and training has reduced the number of deaths of mothers at childbirth at one local hospital from 120 per year to less than five. But awareness raising is difficult there are no tarmac roads you travel by four wheel drive or by motorbike or bicycle, along mud tracks, sometimes in up to a foot of water. A 50 mile journey might take four hours. Yet the impact is profound.

Gift: Orphan support days

3 pays for an HIV/AIDS orphan to attend a fun and support day where they will have loads of fun, play games, get two nutritional meals, some teaching and a small gift. IPASC runs these days fortnightly and up to 200 orphaned children can attend.

Gift: Setting up a Micro-Financing Group

100 is the initial set up cost for a group and thereafter it becomes self-sustaining. Many people with HIV/AIDS are ostracised from their local communities and families and lose any means of sustaining themselves. IPASC has supported the creation of 30 small micro-financing groups where 30 people each contribute to their mini-bank and lend to each other so that they can start their own income generating activities i.e. the sale of peanuts or charcoal, to buy seeds or pay school fees etc.

How to purchase your gift

If you would like to purchase one of these gifts for yourself or on behalf of a friend or family member you can do this in one of three ways by cheque, by standing order/direct debit, or by credit/debit card on line. Details of these are on the accompanying page. We are keeping administration to a minimum so that every penny you give makes a difference. Everyone giving, or their nominee (if you are giving as a present for some-one) will get a photo of their money turned into action, and a thank you letter from both the Friends of IPASC Trust and from IPASC itself. If you are a UK tax payer, gift aiding the donation will increase the impact of your gift to IPASC by 25%.

If you (your church, your small group, or your workplace) would like to give more, there are some bigger projects which IPASC desperately needs funding for - please call Richard Williams (07980 826739) and wed be delighted to speak to you further.

Friends of IPASC Trust

Registered Charity

No. 1092413

www.ipasc.net

Supporting IPASC's Work through its Gift Scheme

There are four easy steps to making a gift to IPASC:

1. Complete the gift choice section on this form, including the name and address of the person you'd like to receive the thank you.

2. Complete payment

- by cheque made payable to The Friends of PASC Trust or

- by completing the Standing Order belowor

- online by following the link below to the IPASC mydonate web page https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/friendsofipasc

3. If you are a UK tax payer complete the Gift Aid Declaration below to increase the impact of your gift by 25%. If you are using the mydonate web page you dont need to do this just tick the relevant box when you make your payment

4. Send your completed forms and/or cheque to The Treasurer, Friends of IPASC Trust, 30 Queensbury, Newton, Wirral, CH48 6EP. If you prefer you can email the treasurer at friendsofipasc@gmail.com regarding your choice of gift and the name and address of the person you would like to receive it.

Gift Aid Declaration for Friends of IPASC Trust

Charity number 1092413 Established in England in 2001

Website: www. ipasc.net Email:

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Declaration:I want Friends of IPASC Trust to treat all donations I have made since 6 April 2000, and all donations I make from the date of this declaration, as Gift Aid Donations, until I notify you otherwise.

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You can cancel this declaration at any time by notifying the Treasurer of Friends of IPASC Trust or your tax office. You must pay income tax and/or capital gains tax at least equal to the tax that the charity reclaims on your donations in the tax year. Please notify us if you change your name or address while this declaration is still in force. If, in the future, your circumstances change and you no longer pay tax on your income and capital gains equal to the tax that the charity reclaims, you can cancel your declaration.

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STANDING ORDER

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Please make payments and debit my/our..account in accordance with the following details, to: Nat West Bank plc (Chester Branch), 33 Eastgate Street, Chester CH1 1XASort code60-40-08Account name IPASC Trust Account number 32641869

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This order cancels any previous instructions in favour of the Friends of IPASC Trust.