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Channel Island Ceramics supports a number of charitable organisations including Project Rhino
and the Guernsey branch of Action Aid.
Project Rhino
Founded in 1988 by Spencer and Janet Gelsthorpe as a personal effort to preserve the black
rhinoceros in Africa, this developed into supporting the communities in these areas. Recent
projects have included the re-building of a primary school in Kenya and constructing medical
dispensary centres. Guernsey volunteers are often involved providing valuable skills to aid
the on-site buildings, including in 1999 the Gitwe Water Project, which was partly financed
by the States of Guernsey and built by a team of volunteers from the Island and Anglian Water.
Channel Island Ceramics supports this trust by displaying and selling African stone sculptures,
the proceeds of which go directly to the charity to benefit small communities in Zimbabwe. For
more information on how you can assist, please contact the Project Rhino Charitable Trust
Organisers, Chatsworth, Rue de la Mare,
Torteval, Guernsey
Tel: +44 (0)1481 264612
Fx: +44 (0)1481 266881
email: rhino.shier@guernsey.net
Action Aid
ActionAid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting for a better world
- a world without poverty. As one of the UK’s largest development agencies, they
work in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean,
listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over nine million of
the world’s poorest people.
Their vision is a world without poverty in
which every person can exercise their right to a life of dignity. Their
mission is to work with poor and marginalised people to eradicate poverty by
overcoming the injustice and inequity that cause it. As an organisation, they
live and work by the following values: mutual respect, equity and justice,
honesty and transparency, solidarity with poor and marginalised people, courage
of conviction, humility.
They believe that by fighting poverty together -
working with poor local communities, national governments and international
organisations - they can help bring about real change to the lives of poor
people. Click on logo to visit the official website or click
here to view information about the latest project.
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