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Public benefits
The trustees believe that our purposes satisfy both elements of the public benefit requirement. Purpose 1a,1b,1c The direct benefits which flow from these purposes include improved living conditions, improved nutrition,improved personal hygiene, improved health outcomes and reduced levels of suffering for people in the community and in residential
settings.The direct benefits also includes reduced levels of stress and anxiety for those in need and their families and/or carers. These benefits are demonstrated through feedback from those people in the community, patients, residents and directors of the asylums,orphanages and elderly people's homes where we carry out our work. These benefits are reported in our local newspaper with supporting photographs each time we return from our twice yearly visit to Belarus. There is no harm from purposes 1a,1c and 2. In providing medical treatment for patients there is a risk of unintended side effects from drugs or dressings. However this is rare and the benefit outweighs the harm.The charities beneficiaries are people living in Belarus in the community or institutions who are poor, in need of financial help, sick, disabled or distressed. The charities beneficiaries also include family members and carers of those in need either financially or due to illness or difficult circumstances. There is no private benefit from any of the purposes.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Chernobyl Aid Newry provides humanitarian aid to those in need in Belarus, the country worst affected by the Chernobyl disaster. A group travels to Belarus twice yearly to carry out renovation and building projects such as improving kitchens, dining halls, bedrooms and bathrooms in various asylums orphanages and elderly people's institutions,
providing a purpose built day care center for special needs children and work shop facilities for older kids in orphanages and the building of a halfway house to enable some residents to live semi independently outside the asylum structure in Belarus. We also provide medical care to those in need both in the community and in the institutions. This could range from providing money for medication, dressings, wheelchairs, equipment such as special beds and mattresses, blood pressure monitors or thermometers, incontinence pads or nappies.We have measured, fitted and provided prosthetic limbs for a number of people in the community. We provide social care to those individuals or families living in the community who require help. This could involve buying food and clothing, paying for housing rent or paying and sourcing respite care for those in need. We pay for and supply duvets to large institutions to keep those in need warm in the severe winters of Belarus. We have bought and renovated a house to provide accommodation for homeless families until we help them to get things sorted. Only those who have the necessary skills required for a particular project are taken out e.g we might need builders at one particular time but need joiners or plasterers at a different time. The medical team consists of a nurse and a pharmacist and sometimes a chiropodist. A prosthetic technician has accompanied us when required. We plan in advance what project or part of a project we are working on next and fund raising is them aimed at that.We handed over a fully furnished house for six people to live outside the asylum in October 2016.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- General public
- Homelessness
- Learning disabilities
- Mental health
- Older people
- Physical disabilities
- Preschool (0-5 year olds)
- Unemployed/low income
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Accommodation/housing
- Disability
- General charitable purposes
- Medical/health/sickness
- Relief of poverty
- Welfare/benevolent
