Medicine

We have already helped lots of children but as the children live in such poor conditions it is far too easy for them to pick up new viruses and diseases and we will always need money aside for their health care. We are currently spending about £80 every month on the children's health. So if you can help then please do even if it's just a fraction of what we spend.

Thank you to Gail Curry who donated £40 towards this item [01/02/08] (Sorry for the delay)
Thank you to Isabel Healey who donated £10 towards this item [29/04/08]

Cost Per Week : £20 - €30 - $38 - 1500 Rs/- (Donations From Last Two Months Shown )

Rice & Dry Provisions

Te menu at the house is always evolving and our menu includes lots of veg dishes including white bean curry, green pea curry and of course we have rice every day. To help with this please donate towards the rice and dry provisions.

Thank you to Frances Borkowski who donated £10 towards this item [05/02/08]
Thank you to Isabel Healey who donated £5 towards this item [29/04/08]

Cost Per Week : £5.00 - €8.00 - $10 - 400 Rs/- (Donations From Last Two Months Shown )

Fish, Chicken & Eggs

We try to give the children a varied diet each week and this includes fish curry, chicken curry and egg curry once a week. If you would like to buy a week or even a months supply we would be very grateful.

Thank you to Frances Borkowski who donated £20 towards this item [05/02/08]
Thank you to Barbara Hughes-Jones who donated £35 towards this item [01/02/08] (Sorry for the delay)

Cost Per Week : £10 - €16 - $20 - 800 Rs/- (Donations From Last Two Months Shown )

Fruit

All the children who attend the Mango House are given fruit every day, this varies from Oranges, Bananas, apples, water melon and also fruit salad. We also continue to try and give fruit out at the slums once or twice a week. If you would like to buy a week or even a months supply we would be very grateful.

Thank you to Frances Borkowski who donated £20 towards this item [05/02/08]
Thank you to Ann and John Martin who donated £20 towards this item [01/04/08]

Cost Per Week : £10 - €16 - $20 - 800 Rs/- (Donations From Last Two Months Shown )

Milk

A lot of the children are malnourished (in really bad cases they can suffer fron Rickets) so it is important to give a wide range of foods. Milk is also great as it provides Calcium which is good for bones and teeth. We try to ensure each child has at least one glass of milk every day they are here.

Thank you to Frances Borkowski who donated £10 towards this item [05/02/08]
Thank you to Ann and John Martin who donated £20 towards this item [01/04/08]

Cost Per Week : £10 - €16 - $20 - 800 Rs/- (Donations From Last Two Months Shown )

Birthday Parties

Most of the children who we work with do not celebrate their birthdays mainly because neither them or their parents know when they were born, many don't even know how old they are. For school they needed birthdates so guesstimates were made and their parents aknowledge this and their birthdays were worn (a little later than usual). Now the children have birthday we are celebrating them throughout the year. On their actual birthday we sing them happy birthday, but as there can be 8 per month we have one large party to celebrate those birthdays that month. At the parties they have presents, lots of games and cake.

Harsha Patel has donated £10 towards this item (25/01/2008) (January)
Heather and Dave donated £10 towards this item (06/04/2008) (February)

Cost Per Month : £10 - €16 - $20 - 800 Rs/- (Donations From Last Two Months Shown )

Rent

We now have a beautiflly restored Portuguse house which is to be used as a drop in center and home for children. It has 9 large rooms and huge garden area at the front and back. We are currently renting the property and hope to raise enough money to buy it in the future. Up until then we are currently paying out around £100 per month for the rent of the building (7650 Rs/-)

Cost Per Month : £96 - €153 - $192 - 7650 Rs/- (Donations From Last Two Months Shown )

HMS Illustrious - Mango House Water Tower (was the wall :os)

The sailors came but unfortunately the permission for the wall didn't so we had to put the sailors to work on another project. The water platform was the main profor the water tank. So the boys/girls were hard at it all day and made a good dint into the work. The finishing touches have been made today to finish the top and to put a concreate slam to strengthen

Bricks Cost : £30 - €48 - $60 - 2300 Rs/-

Sand Cost : £29 - €46 - $58 - 2300 Rs/-

Cement Cost : £35 - €55- $69 - 2750 Rs/-

Various Items Stones, Plumbing Materials, Labour etc Cost : £30 - €46 - $58 - 4000 Rs/- (Estimate)

HMS Illustrious - The Mango House Roof - Finished By Rob and Ali

Several of the tiles on The Mango House roof have come away or been broken by the monkeys that run through the neighbourhood jumping on the roof and bounding into the trees to eat the fruit. They are beautiful to watch but do continually cause problems for the 100 year old house. We will need to buy a good quanity of tiles to replace the broken ones and recement them in place, we are hoping to fully replace the tiles on the porch as the last two years has seen it leaks getting worse and worse. More areas where the roof joins each other also need special attention so we can insure the interior of the mango house stay warm and dry.

Tiles Mangalorian tiles are used to tile the roof. These are basic clay tiles costing around 10 Rs/- per tile. We are unsure how many will be required until we get up on the roof but at an estimate between 100 and 300 tiles might be required. The cost below is for 75 tiles. Cost per 50 Tiles: £10 - €15 - $19 - 750 Rs/- (Estimate)

Zinc Sheeting Zinc sheeting is required to stop the water gushing into the house. The sheeting needs to be around 3 ft wide and is used to channel the water in the gutters. Some of this is the original sheeting is rusted and pitted with holes. We require between 20 and 30 meters of metal. Cost per sheet : £23 - €37 - $47 - 1850 Rs/-

Wooden slats We will refit the wooden slats especially on the porch area where the roof leaks most. Making the slats closer together will hopefully reduce the chance of rain coming in and will keep everyone dry. The window shelters will also be strengthened due to the wood being eaten by woodworm. Cost per recylcing Bin: £43 - €68 - $85 - 3,400 Rs/- (Estimate)

Various We will refit the wooden slats especially on the porch area where the roof leaks most. Making the slats closer together will hopefully reduce the chance of rain coming in and will keep everyone dry. The window shelters will also be strengthened due to the wood being eaten by woodworm. Cost per recylcing Bin: £31 - €49 - $62 - 2450 Rs/- (Estimate)

Painting Activity Sheets

We provide craft and paint activities for the children every week day and to make everyone's life easier it's best to put down good quality sheeting for them to work on. This helps keep the floor and services clean and really helps on cleaning up afterwards especially when permanent markers and glue are involved,,,,

Cost per recylcing Bin: £15 - €24 - $30 - 1200 Rs/- (Estimate)

Children's Recycling Bins * 2

Some of the children can not attend school as their parents require them to work during the day to earn money for the family. We are oping to by pass this by providing recycling bins at the house so that any bottle (plastic/glass), metal (bottle tops, wire etc) and paper can be recycled by them. Visitors and volunteers to the Mango house are encouraged to bring suitable items for recycling. These will then be distributed directly to the children who require this service. If you spend a lot of time at a resturant or beach shack, perhaps they can collect bottle tops for you when you visit the house. Thank you to Whispering Palms, White Elephant and others who have already helped us with this appeal.

John Cordeauxl has donated £20 towards this item (25/04/2008)

Cost per recylcing Bin: £10 - €16 - $20 - 800 Rs/-

Sorting Boxes * 10

During the tourist season we are very lucky to receive lots of clothes, toys, soap, shampoo and medical items. Quite often we don't get anything for weeks but sometimes everyone comes at once. To help sort these items we need seperate boxes for girls tops, bys tops, girls trousers, skirts, dresses, underwear, stationary, games etc so that the items can be sorted quickly and given out to the children at the earliest chance. Sorting clothes is a hard job (as any of our volunteers can tell you) so to help we want a collection of plastic containers so we can sort them as soon as they come in. We buy strong plastic containers to sort the items into, the more we get the better, although 10 would be a great start.

Cost for a pair : £5 - €8 - $10 - 400 Rs/-

Swimming Lessons (Per Child)

We are encouraging the children to learn to swim as it is a great way to exercise and can also save your life. It is a sad fact that lots of people die off the coast of Goa, many of them Indians who get caught by the under currents in the area. If the children learn how to swim then hopefully this will never happen to them. 400 Rs/- covers the cost of the lessons, the travel to and from the swimming pool and also the purchase of a swimming cap. Normally we have enough swimming costumes so these come out of storage.

Cost Each : £5 - €8 - $10 - 400 Rs/- (Donations From Last Two Months Shown )

Loft Storage System

Since renovating the house last year we have used the loft area to store extra clothes, toys, stationary and washing products that we have. We found that as everything was being stored in a very small space it was impossible to see exactly what we had and was impossible to find anything we were looking for. Therefore this monsoon we have totally re-vamped the loft area making it into a people friendly area that has stacking boxes stacked from top to bottom. All of the boxes are then named and when anything is needed a member of staff or volunteer can get it very easily.

Total Cost: £200.00 - €320.00 - $400.00 - 16000Rs/-

Lights and Electrician Costs for outside shelter.

The outside shelter is used every day but when the rain comes it can get very dark and the children struggle to see what they are doing. We decided to put lights in the shelter, this will not only help when the rains come but will also make it possible for us to use the shelter at night.


Total Each : £30.00 - €48.00 - $60.00 - 2400Rs/-

Photocopier (XEROX)

Now that the school is coming on in leaps and bounds we really need a photocopier to create resources for the children to use each day. We also go out and spend money on photocopying as many of the documents we have need duplicates making for the official process.

Val and Rob Jarrold donated £25 towards this item

Cost : £875 - €1400 - $1750 - 70,000 Rs/-

Kitchen Shelving

Now that we have had to purchase more equippment for the house we found that we also needed extra shelves in the kitchen to store everything on. We have constructed 3 shelves so far so that we can store our pots, pans and cooking ingrediants. We hope to construct 3 more in the very near future.Trying to cook for 40 children can be very difficult when you do not have the correct equipment. Although we tried to equip the kitchen out last year, we have found that now we have children ion each day we need extra saucepans etc.

Re-added due to delay in donation

Cost : £28.75 - €46.00 - $57.50 - 2300Rs/-