Dear Supporters

The January 2012 Newsletter is attached. Thank you for helping us to bring a future and a hope to these Ugandan teachers and youngsters.

With all good wishes for the New Year.

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The Hands of Love Team

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A message from Hands of Love Trustee and Administrator Sally Walker:

There is an unusual patter of little feet in the Walker household. Our Hermanns tortoises normally lay their eggs in April and May and the babies hatch out in June/July in time for the warm summer weather. This winter has been so warm that one tortoise laid a very late clutch in November and so far we have three little winter babies. All tortoises are re-homed (in pairs) under Defra licence and in 2011 they raised £730 for Hands of Love UK.

If you are interested in homing young tortoises, the 2011 hatchlings will be ready from the end of February for a suggested minimum donation of £50 per animal.
 
This is a pet for life – please consider the long term implications of tortoise ownership.

For more information please contact Sally Walker on 023 9225 3213.

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This Christmas, the orphans of the Hands of Love Orphanage were delighted by their gifts, made possible by the generous donations of Hands of Love supporters:

See the full gallery on Posterous

We would love it if you would consider sponsoring a child too, and help bring a Christmas smile to an orphan all year round.

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We have changed our financial year end from 7th April to 31st December in order to coincide with Hands of Love USA and Hands of Love Uganda.

The accounts to 7th April 2010 and previous years are available to view on the Charity Commission website but they are unable to process two periods ending in the same year and nor can they accept a period longer than eighteen months.

The Charity Commission therefore does not require to see the accounts for the period 8th April 2010 to 31st December 2010 and cannot accept them. We, the trustees of Hands of Love UK, consider financial transparency to be of key importance and you can view these accounts below:

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Why not buy a Christmas Gift card for family and/or friends this Christmas?

At the Hands of Love Orphanage and School we have over 400 unsponsored children and we aim to give each one a small gift in addition to a Special Christmas Meal. By purchasing a Gift Card for a minimum donation of £5 (up to as much as you like) you will help us to achieve this dream.

Five different Christmas Gift designs are available in addition to our normal Gifts of Love.

Please give generously to help create a bright future for the children.

To order the cards, please print and return the order form on the Gifts of Love page.

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HOL_Newsltr.July.C.2011.pdf Download this file

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Fraudulent email
An email asking for money that has been sent to some supporters. The email pretends to be from Hands of Love, but it is a scam and can be safely deleted and ignored. Pastor Elijah will never send an email of this sort. If in doubt, please email Hands of Love and we will confirm or deny the validity of any email you receive regarding Hands of Love.

This is a copy of the fraudulent email. Please do not respond to it if you receive it:

Dear Friends,
Warm greetings and Love from my family and the children and staff of Hands of love Orphanages & Schools in Uganda-East Africa.

Thank you very much for the big work of Hands of Love that you are doing with us,indeed we are very grateful.
But this time round,iam writing to you with a personal problem concering Daniel's (my elder son) illness for he has been admitted at our refferal hospital diagonised with a Coronary heart disease.The doctors have suggested a coronary angioplasty as an emergency treatment procedure.
So dear friends i kindly request for your support for this has come abruptly and i totally do not have any help as per now and Daniel needs urgent treatment.It requires about Ugshs 4,678,000 (GBP 1,270) for the whole treatment.
In case of help,kindly use moneygram money transfer services for it is fast,safe and convinient otherthan the usual means.
We kindly request for your prayers too.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
In Christ's Name,
Ps.Elijah.

Thank you for reading and your continued support of Hands of Love.

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The April 2011 Newsletter is now available.

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Sally Walker visited Hands of Love earlier this year. Here is her report from her trip:

sallyjan2011.pdf Download this file

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The January 2011 newsletter is now available:

HOL Newsltrpages.copy.1&2.docx Download this file

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The March 2010 Newsletter is now available:

March_2010.pdf Download this file

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