City of Joy Aid, UK

Eight students and two members of staff from St Joan of Arc Catholic School, Rickmansworth, will be travelling to Kolkata in February 2019 for the school’s eighth trip to visit Udayan. Their trip will see them spending time at the home for children of leprosy sufferers including delivering some lessons to class I to V who are taught on site in Udayan Vidyalaya. They will also visit Asha Bhavan Centre, Paras Padma and ICOD.

Following the recent sad death of her husband Fred Kahl, Hazel Nash OBE, ex-New Zealand police officer, Eton dame and mountain climber extraordinaire, has asked for donations towards the refurbishment of the sick bays and isolation ward at Udayan and the general upgrading of the children’s health care.