Action With Effect
Registered Charity- No.X R 88946.
A.W.E is a new Northern Ireland based ‘third world’ charity working in tandem with

Eco-Adventreks & Welfare Society
Regd. Office Anandgram,
11Nalapani Road,
Adholwala, P O.Dehra Dun, Pin 248 001.
India E- mail: adventreks@rediffmail.com

This Indian charity is run by a committed and dedicated group of young Christians who, with A.W.E funding, have provided loving care for destitute lepers, orphans, and street children.

Let me explain my humanitarian background before the existence of these two charities.

For the twelve years I have worked with homeless street children in various “Third World” countries; from Mexico, to Morocco, from Egypt to India and Nepal.

For the past six years I have concentrated my efforts in India and to date, through my personal involvement with Eco- Adventreks & Welfare Society, my fund raising efforts have seen fifty houses built for destitute homeless leper families.
The only hope of escape from life- long destitution for ‘untouchable' children is education; there simply no other means, except perhaps a life of crime.
Eight schools providing nine hundred ‘untouchable’ children with an education, two more are at the planning stage.
Our schools provide for students not only an education, but free meals, school uniforms, comprehensive medical and dental care. When a school is open and the students enrolled, a medical team makes three separate visits. Every child is medically examined and a record of its physical condition is written up and kept. Treatment for the eradication of harmful bacteria is administered on three separate visits by a medical team.

An orphanage has been established providing loving care for a small number of girls and boys.
A.W.E. is seeking much needed funding for its efforts on behalf of the destitute, living in squalor on the streets or in black polythene structures on waste ground, without safe drinking water or sanitation.
Today and every day 28,000 innocent 'third world' children will die a painful and distressing death, directly from hunger, or disease, resulting from malnutrition. What makes these deaths obscene is today’s world is a world of food surplus. That one child should die from hunger on any day is inexcusable, and therefore unforgivable; that 28,000 die every day is truly an abomination. We, in the west, pride ourselves on our concern for children. Our statute books are brimming full with legislation to protect children against physical and sexual abuse by disgusting child molesters. Yet, we passively accept the worst forms of child abuse, which are homelessness, destitution, and death by starvation.
You are entitled to ask why should any man build homes for destitute lepers, schools for destitute children, and orphanages for street orphans. And you are right to know why you, as an individual, should be concerned or become involved?

Well you have been given life in human form in a body of physical matter; you were placed on planet Earth for a purpose, unless you believe in blind chance, then the reason or reasons for human existence has to examined and understood. This is not the venue to plunge into a detailed philosophical treatise on the fascinating question on the reasons for human existence, however for the sake of answering the question of personal humanitarian involvement with the destitute, it’s necessary for a superficial examination.
The application of simple logic would suggest that the perfection of our individual humanity is one of the fundamental reasons for life. There is, out there, a lot of scepticism about human perfection and the overwhelming consensus of opinion is that perfection is impossible. To counter this negativity, the story of the itinerant philosopher who meandered throughout Palestine two thousand years ago should, at this point, be recounted.

“ Be ye perfect as your father in heaven which is perfect”

The best method of attaining perfection is to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, provide safe drinking water to the thirsty, administer medical care for the sick and dying, educate illiterate children, provide hope to the broken spirit of the destitute. These are beautiful things to be engaged in and when we do beautiful things we become as beautiful as the beautiful deeds themselves. A greater mind than mine has decreed: ‘You will never come to any harm in the practice of virtue’