EARTH IS THE HOME WE SHARE - YOU LEAD THE CHANGERegistered charity 1113505 since 2004, run by professional volunteers so keeping overheads low!CDUK has been changing peoples lives abroad for 20 years with water, workshops, wind power, goats, gardens, libraries, educational buildings & development. We provide environmentally sustainable solutions & self help projects in the developing world.
WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT CDUK? - We consult with local people who advise us on their needs for a sustainable future.
- We work directly with people & organisations avoiding unnecessary expenses.
- We consider the environmental impact of our work & plant trees to reduce CO2 emissions.
- We provide environmentally sustainable solutions such as solar power, biogas cookers & windmills where appropriate.
- We encourage people to help themselves by providing practical, self help projects.
- We are professional volunteers & have low overheads so your money goes where it is most needed avoiding expensive office rental, salaries & administrative costs.
We can do nothing without your support, please donate now or volunteer!Make a quick donation on your phone, text CDUK to 70970 to donate £5.
Set up Pay Role Giving at your place of work. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/thisearthisourhome NEW CAMPAIGNSMothers with HIV walk upto 10km to learn a trade at our new Sewing Coop but some drop out because they are exhausted by the walk! WE NEED TO RESTART THE FOOD PROGRAMME at the ajoining school - see below, so that they can share in the Food Programme, please donate or fundraise for us, we urgently need your support!- Make 'shoe/tote bags' for Syringe Drivers - Help NHS oncology patients at Cambridge Addenbrooke's Hospital. Go to Shoe Bags page for more information.
- HELP US TO RESTART A FOOD PROGRAMME AT A RURAL VILLAGE SCHOOL IN RWANDA THAT CLOSED DURING COVID, LEAVING MANY CHILDREN HUNGRY & DYING. JUST 100 PEOPLE MAKING A STANDING ORDER OF £5 A MONTH WILL ENABLE US TO RESTART THE FOOD PROGRAMME AND FEED 200 CHILDREN DAILY. Go to our Donate page AND/OR make a Standing Order.
- EXISTING CAMPAIGNS
- FUNDRAISE FOR US SO THAT WE ARE ABLE TO SEND 6 MORE SEWING MACHINES TO THE NEW SEWING WORKSHOP IN RWANDA. Go to our Donate/fundraising page.
- KNIT FOR KIDS AT A SYRIAN REFUGEE CAMP Go to our Knit for Kids page.
- MAKE PILLOWCASE DRESSES & BERMUDA SHORTS FOR RWANDAN CHILDREN FROM RECYCLED DUVETS- go to our pillowcase dresses page.
- SHOP ON LINE RAISE CASH FOR CDUK https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/cause/compassion-direct-uk/
- RAISE MONEY TO HELP US SINK A VILLAGE WELL WHERE CURRENTLY PEOPLE HAVE TO TRAVEL 7K FOR FRESH WATER
How will your donations be used? We are all vbolunteers so your donation goes so much further!
£5 will buy pencils & stationary for a school or sewing patterns
£10 will buy 10 yards of dress material
£25 will buy material, scissors, cottons
£25 will buy a bike
£50 will provide two cutting tables
£50 will buy a bike and tools for a man to be come a gardener
£150 will provide a sewing machine to teach a woman a trade
£250 to set up & buy chickens for a safe chicken pen
£500 to buy a herd of goats
£600 a month will run a food programme feeding 150 malnourished children
£2000 will sink a village well
£10,000 will begin to set up an orphanage
£15,000 will furnish an orphanage
£20,000 with run the orphanages for a year
YOUR DONATION WILL MAKE REAL CHANGES TO THE LIVES OF DISADVANTAGED PEOPLECDUK have provided wells, fruit trees, a woman & child development centre in S America,a school in Ghana, a Sewing Cooperative in Rwanda, vegetable gardens, wind turbines, educational materials, rainwater harvesting tanks, industrial sewing machines & workshops, latrine doors, goat herds, libraries & we send hand knitted clothing to refugees in Syria & dresses & shorts made from recycled materials by our volunteers to Rwanda.
Photos: 1. Dresses made from unwanted pillowcases for girls in Rwanda. 2. The late Bishop Enock with pigmy tribe in East Rwanda. 3. Children in Chaco north Argentina with a tree planted and watered from the well we dug for the school who had a choice before the well of paying for water or food for lunch 4. Putting in water tanks at a church school in Rwanda that fed 120 children a day, 60 of whom were orphans of HIV mothers - the food programme closed during Covid and we want to reopen it with your donations 5. The Sewing Cooperative we built to help HIV mothers learn a trade, make a living and feed themselves and their children.
