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The Little Stars Wish List

£1 - will buy a child a pair of sandals, or sweets for 20 children, or 2 kgs of flour, or 9 kgs of dates.

£5 - will buy clothes and shoes for a child, or a warm blanket to protect a family against the cold winter night, or buy medicine for a sick child or pay the charge schools make for the use of books.

£10 - will mend a straw roof, or replace a broken roof beam, or re-wire a one-room home to make it safe, or buy a cotton mattress for a bench bed, or buy fruit juice for all the children at the clinic for a week or buy dried milk for a hungry baby for one month.

£15 - will buy a ceiling fan to cool sleeping children in the heat of the summer, or buy a small sink and tiles to keep mud walls dry, or buy 15 coats from UK charity shops to be taken to Egypt.

£20 - will buy a locally made single bed with a cotton mattress to get small children off the floor and away from vermin, or pay school fees and buy a school uniform for a child. Will buy a nourishing meal for every child in the nursery school for one day or will pay for a second hand cooker so that families are not cooking on the floor on open fires.

£30 - will buy a sturdy desk and chair for the nursery school, or buy a double bed with cotton mattress where several children can sleep, or will pay for the installation of a water meter in a home where water is possible or will buy a standing frame for the clinic.

£50 - will rewire a small home to make it safe, or will buy equipment for the new dental surgery or the new Training Workshops or will buy a new wheelchair or will pay the wages of a teacher for a month.

£75 - will pay for the installation of a basic toilet in a home without sanitation, or put a complete new roof on a mud brick home or buy an ultrasound massager for the clinic or home use.

£100 - will pay for a physiotherapist or a speech therapist for one month, or buy 40 gelabyyas or 150 pairs of sandals.

£150 - will pay for a Paediatrician or a Dentist for one month.

£200 - will pay the rent on the clinic for one month.

£300 - would pay for a septic tank, ceramics and piping for the installation of a basic 'public' toilet in Haja Marise.

£500 - will pay Little Stars' entire staff wages bill for one month.

£750 - will pay for the alterations needed to install the dental surgery equipment or pay the cost of the food parcels for one month.

£1,000 - will buy 300 blankets to be distributed in the winter months, or will equip one of the Training Workshops, or would sponsor 8 families for a whole year.

£2,500 - will pay the entire running costs of the Distribution Centre for a whole year.

£5,000 - would complete the premises to be used for Training Workshops or allow us to develop a mother and baby clinic.

£10,000 - would pay for one of the transport vehicles that are so desperately needed to get around the villages or would completely equip the nursery school.

£20,000 - would pay for the completion of the proposed East Bank Drop-In Centre or buy the double-cab and mini bus that we need.

This Wish list will be updated on a regular basis.

There is a universal need for:-
Clothing to suit children of all ages - knitting wool and knitters.
Toiletries such as shampoo, toothpaste and soaps.
Disposable Nappies of all sizes
Outgrown Orthopaedic Boots
Good shoes of all sizes
Exercise books, pens, pencils and school equipment - these can be bought in Luxor
Stimulating Toys and Cuddly toys of all sizes
Footballs

There is a specialist need for physiotherapy and medical equipment:-
Muscle stimulators - including the old Slendertone type TENS machines that people have stashed away in cupboards.
Exercise Mats
Wedge-roll medical balls
Large exercise balls.
Standing and walking frames for children - bought in Cairo
Wheel chairs - these can be bought in Cairo for about £40 - £45 each
Braces of different sizes
Medical equipment - burn dressings - bandages - diabetes blood testing strips
Knee, foot orthoses – callipers.
Sphygmomanometer
Standing frames

There is a general need for:-
2 mini buses and a Toyota Double Cab – One of the mini buses is needed for the Good Samaritan Home and the other for Little Stars. The Toyota is needed for the west bank of the Nile so that it can transport food parcels as well as children.

In addition:-
Equipment is needed for the new nursery school and the Training Workshops..

If you work in a shipping company or know of a company that might be willing to freight clothing and medical equipment to Luxor then we would be very grateful if you could give us a contact name and number so that we can arrange to have items sent to Luxor. Please Contact us.

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