Can you help the Bel Air Children's home?
The Bel Air Home was opened in January 1999 and is run by a not for profit company that is incorporated in Grenada. A board of directors who all serve in a voluntary capacity runs the company. The Friends of Bel Air (Grenada) is registered with the Charity Commission in the UK. Visit the website.
The Home was purpose built to accommodate up to 20 babies and toddlers in the nursery and 20 adolescents girls in individual cubicles on the upper floor. The day to day running of the home is carried out by the Home Manager and twenty other staff.
The children are from background of neglect, physical or sexual abuse, or abandonment. Their care is centred on personal development and personal tutoring based on each child's capabilities. There is a pre school for the older children from the nursery which helps with early childhood development. Corporal punishment is not permitted.
Grenada is close to most peoples' dreams of an idyllic tropical island and so it is but as in any other country in the world there are less fortunate individuals who are not able to share in that idyll - in the case of the residents of Bel Air, children who have not had any control of their own destiny. There are currently twenty four girls and eight boys living there, aged from 3 months to twenty.
Funding
The St. George's University provides 35% of the annual running costs of the Home, while the Government of Grenada provides 25%. The remainder of these costs has to be met by contributions, financial or in kind, from Grenada and from overseas. Money donated by the Grenada Business Community is exempt from tax.
We are all indebted to all the Business places and individuals who have been of assistance to us. We could not have kept our heads above water without your help.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if you and your extended family would commit to sponsoring one child from the children’s home?
This is the idea.
Instead of giving Christmas presents to the whole family , you each put by a certain amount of money that you could spare which would go into a fund to sponsor a specific child in the home.
By sharing the sponsorship with your family, the cost to each of you would be minimal, and yet make a whole world of difference to the home and the children.
You might also think about sending a birthday and Christmas present to a child?
Alternatively a donation marked specifically for Bel Air would be truly wonderful. Cheques should be made out to "Friends of Bel Air" and can be sent to me at Sycamore Croft. Colliery Road . St Martins. Shropshire. SY 11 3DL. A gift aid declaration can be downloaded here.
Anything you can do to help, fundraise or make a donation would help and be really appreciated by the children. It is such a worthy cause, they are fabulous children and really deserve our help.
Please contact me if you would like to donate or help in any way. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
