UK Charity Commission Registration Number 1120536

Welcome to Little Stars - Luxor Children's Trust Fund

Egypt is a land of ancient superstars. Hatshepsut, Tutankhamun, Ramses the Great, Nefertiti and Cleopatra were living Gods worshipped by all for their power and their strength. Their cartouches are etched eternally in stone and their names slip off the tongue like honey from the carved bees that adorn every column in Egypt’s greatest temples. Egypt’s past intrigues and fires the imagination but that was two thousand years ago. So, what is happening now? Visitors still flock to the temples but do they see beyond them? Do they see the Little Stars that bid to shine through the heap of bad cards that life has dealt them?

How do Luxor’s orphans and abandoned children get by? How do families survive on what can be as low as £5 or £6 per month? How do those children with disabilities manage in a hostile environment that is 95% desert and stricken with poverty? The answer to all those questions is simple. Without your help they will not manage at all. There is no danger of a child falling through the welfare net, because there is no welfare net to catch any of them.

Little Stars is a Trust Fund with small beginnings but with your support will assist abandoned, orphaned, disabled and disadvantaged children in Luxor regardless of their gender or their religion. Luxor has orphanages and care homes that get little publicity and virtually no support. Many of these homes are dilapidated and ill-equipped and all they can really offer is love and a roof over a child’s head. This is far from ideal but it is a huge step up from the loneliness of being a street child. With grants from the Little Stars they may be able to improve their facilities and offer children a brighter childhood and a brighter future.

A winged Isis was chosen as the Little Stars mascot because by legend she is the protector of children. If asked to protect children she will hold them in her arms and enfold them in her wings of love and peace. The aim of Little Stars is to protect all children in that way.

Have a look through our website then consider becoming a sponsor and taking a child under your wing or making a donation to the fund. The aims of the Trust are wide and Trust Funds are not bottomless pits. They need constant replenishing if they are to work. They need your support and that makes you important in the lives of children that you have never met but who are dependent on you. Show them that you care and that they are not forgotten.

Patron: The Earl of Carnarvon
www.HighClereCastle.co.uk