HEAL-Registered Charity 1149260

Bank RBS Account name - HEAL sort code - 16 13 26 acc number 10219342. There are an estimated 1.4 million children on the streets of Pakistan – 79% of whom are between the ages of 13 and 18 years old 15% are 9 to 12 years old and 6% are under 8 years old. Although the project will support everyone possible it will focus on the 6% of the under 8 year olds that are deemed to be the most at risk. Approximately 92% of all street children use drugs, 66% of them self inflict harm and most are subjected to sexual abuse. Although an exact figure is not available a vast number of these children are forced into prostitution by organised criminal networks. The street children are disillusioned and have no faith in humanity or authority as the very people that should be protecting them are exploiting them and this only leads to further problems as they grow older. HEAL ( Helping Educating And rebuilding Lives ) is an ambitious long term project the results of which may not be instant. Its ambition is to change the lives of the children that are being exploited on the streets of developing countries and give them a fair chance in life - something we take for granted in the developed world. The first and most important objective of the project is to stop these children from being exploited. Then these children will be armed with the education, finances, adult support and social skills to be able to lead a life that they would otherwise have no chance of. They will be given a level of protection that has been missing throughout their lives. The statistics for child begging, child labour, violence towards children and child sexual exploitation are scary to say the least. The governments of the developing nations seem to turn a blind eye to the issues or aren’t simply equipped to deal with the problem. HEAL will identify the most vunerable children and take them off the street and place them into the care of its charity partners in Pakistan. The aim of the charity is to assist 50 children a year but that number can be increased dependant on financial support. The children will be housed, clothed, educated and taught skills for employment. If the child’s family is dependant on the child begging ( as there are some child beggars who’s father may have passed away and mother is too ill to work and they have small siblings to take care of and begging is their only choice ) HEAL will financially support the family whilst the child is in the charity’s care. The project is long term, ambitious and the first of its kind. A child raised by the charity from the age of 5 years old will be taken care of until he or she is 15 years old. So any child the charity helps will not be abandoned and the charity will support them through to adulthood and offer further support if necessary. The logistics of the project are quite complex but a more detailed plan will be published in the near future. HEAL aims to be totally upfront and transparent with the accounts and costs. The trustees of the account will not take a salary. The charity operates a 100% donation policy. In this way we aim to make sure that the maximum amount of money reaches the cause for which it was donated. We find the overheads and remuneration costs of some charities astonishing and do not agree with the working practice that donations pay charity salaries and flamboyant overheads.