Supporting Street and Slum Children
In 2003 I came to Goa with a friend and started volunteering for one charity. It was mostly my friends idea and I just came as moral support, but it all changed and I realised charirt work was going to take a bit more of my time. Over the last 13 years I have volunteered my time to nine different charites including founding 3 charities, all of which are still helping children. The blogs below are from my latest project Goa Outreach which I currently run full time and I help around 120 children (As of 2016). It is tiring work but a lot of fun and the kids and their families are wonderful. The blogs below are from before I had setup the charity website and I was still using this, my personal site to write my blogs. All the latest blogs can be found on the new charity website.
- Guest Blog - Kiwi Abroad
- College Admissions And Back To School
- Moving On Up
- Life Is Never Boring Looking After The Kids
- A Helping Hand
- Dentists Assistant - Clothes…
- Kalpana's Visit To The Tree House
- Preparing For The New School Year
- Exams
- Revising For Exams
- Penny And The Thunder And Lightning Girls
- Sindhiya's Birthday - Painted Faces
- Children Performing At Ash
- Declan And Friends
- Tigers, Bears, Mini Mouse And More
- Sindhiya´s Birthday And Women´s Day
- Holi Festival
- Holi 2015 - Bringing A Little Colour To The Lives Of Kids
- Hearing For The First Time
- Friends Bracelets From Half Way Round The World
- Dentist And Root Canal
- The Education Department
- Christmas Party Photos
- 700+ Christmas Presents Given Out
- Day After Christmas
- Merry Christmas
- Christmas Day
- Christmas Packing
- Christmas Preparations
- Azadeh And Friends
- Delphine - Baby Steps
- Brushes With The Law
- New School Children
- Sheila And John
- Tytti And Essa
- Clothes Donations
- Children's Day
- The Goenkar Cover Story
- School Shoes
- Rainy Weekend Report
- Dermatology Visit
- Cricket Kit
- Couch Surfers
- Local Tattoos
- Typhoid Fever
- Puncture Wound In Her Forehead
- Educational Rice, Mosquito Coils And Health Packs
- Child Burnt, Admitted Into District Hospital In Mapusa
- Scouts & Guides
- Football
- Mosquitoes And Malaria Prevention
- Late Admissions And Changing Schools
- Higher Education
- Video - Recycle, Reuse, Reduce And Respect
- Donations Of Toys, Clothes And Books
- Children Going To Dentist
- Attempted Suicide
- Donation Of Books
- Apna Ghar, Govt Children's Home, Goa
- The New School Year
- Dance Lessons
- A Midnight Call
- School Uniforms
- Pre-school Sessions
- Tooth Ache & Tendinitis
- Rice For Children
- Called To Help Father
- A Missing Girl
- School Misery
- Monsoon : Protection From The Rains
- Cleaner Air
- Kajal Had An Infection For The Last Two Years
- Hula Hoops
- Boy Taken To Hospital
- Scared To Take Exams
- Fantastic Fundraiser At Ash In Arambol
- Hula Hoops With Declan And Friends
- Forcing Children Out Of Education And Into Marriage
- Students Receive Tablets Through Cyber Age Scheme
- Carnival For The Children
- Carnival Day
- Prevention Of Child Abuse
- Margao Road Workers
- Search For Kalpana
- Distributing Fruit
- Fruit Time
- Malaria Update And Testing
- Searching The Rubbish Tips
- Malaria In The Slum
- Smoke Filled Rooms
- Total Of 7 Slum Areas
- Check Ups In Margao
- Margao Children
- Margao Ganesh Holidays
- Help Of A Doctor
- Margao Checkups
- Our First Slum Visit Since Our Return To Goa
- Margao Monsoon Donations
- Third Stop Off On Our Margao Monsoon Charity Run
- Panjim Monsoon Donations
- Kung Fu Championship
- We Have Distributed Over 1500 Heath Packs!
- Slums In Calangute
- First Signs Of Rain
- Azadeh & Kung Fu Kid
- Margao Childrens Photos
- Outreach Work In Margao
- Photos Taken In Siolim And Calangute