The Independent: An Appeal For An Abandoned People
The Independent Charity Auction 2006 is now closed. Click here to see winning bids.
* Merlin,
which supplies health care and medical relief to vulnerable people caught up
in natural disasters, conflict, disease and health system collapse.
* The
Welfare Association (UK), which supports humanitarian and
development projects in Palestine and in Palestinian Refugee Camps in
Lebanon.
*
Anti-Slavery International, the only charity in the United Kingdom to
work exclusively against slavery and related abuses.
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'Independent' readers give more than £300,000
Published: 12 February 2007
People can cry, said the writer James Baldwin, much easier than they can change. But in recent weeks, readers of this newspaper have done a little of both.
Independent Appeal: From hardship springs hope
Published: 08 January 2007
Independent Appeal: Bringing clean water to a village stalked by sickness
Published: 06 January 2007
Even if there wasn't a dirty foam-flecked puddle of waste water at the foot of its trunk, you would know there was something wrong with Jamal Abu Sawarha's olive tree from the tell-tale white patches on the leaves. But Mr Abu Sawarha, 51, who is a local leader in this crowded community of shacks and lean-tos in the sprawling village of al Zawaida - one of the poorest in Gaza - is resigned.
Independent Appeal: Escape route for innocent victims of an evil trade
Published: 05 January 2007
Independent Appeal: The small green shoots of hope sprout among the date groves
Published: 03 January 2007
Independent Appeal: Children in slavery
Published: 02 January 2007
Independent Appeal: Victims of a terrible war receive pioneering help in Gaza - and across the Israeli border
Published: 01 January 2007
The moment that changed three-year-old Mohammed Kulab's life for ever came when he was buried in the rubble of his home after an Israeli shell exploded during an incursion into Gaza's southernmost town of Rafah in March 2004.
Independent Appeal: Afghanistan... the most dangerous place in the world to have a baby
Published: 30 December 2006
Manija Hojipour's decision to join a midwifery course did not meet with universal approval at her home village of Durayi. Her mother was reduced to tears by claims that the 20-year-old will be corrupted by mixing with unbelievers and become a pariah in her own community.
Independent Appeal: Niger and the victims of an old and cruel trade
Published: 29 December 2006
Independent Appeal: A vital lifeline for patients from the West Bank
Published: 28 December 2006
Dr Haitham al-Hassan is smoking his tenth cigarette of our meeting and drinking the blackest of black coffee. "We are in a desperate position," he says. "One day we can't do catheterisation because we have run out of tubes. The next day we can't do X-rays because we have run out of film. Some 60 per cent of my budget has disappeared in the past year."
Independent Appeal: Slavery in the UK
Published: 27 December 2006
Independent Appeal: Hope amid the wreckage of the tsunami
Published: 26 December 2006
Independent Appeal: 'What would happen if the Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today?'
Published: 23 December 2006
Independent Appeal: Emin's art lessons go for £14,000 in record bid
Published: 22 December 2006
It is a Christmas present of extraordinary generosity. Richard Duncalf, a company chairman, has paid £14,000 for his partner to enjoy a drawing lesson with Tracey Emin which makes the Turner Prize-nominated artist the most extravagant top lot in The Independent's 2006 Christmas Appeal.
Independent Appeal: Campaign to free the slaves of the Amazon
Published: 22 December 2006
Earlier this month, a group of inspectors - they call them the Flying Squad - descended on a ranch at Pacaja in the remote Amazonian state of Para in the north of Brazil. There, they found 125 people living in makeshift plastic shelters, exposed to the rain. There was no sanitation. All they had to eat was manioc flour and any game they managed to kill. Three of them had malaria and several had untreated wounds from work accidents. Armed guards had stopped them escaping.
Independent Appeal: Rebuilding lives after Liberia's civil war
Published: 21 December 2006
Recalling the day she was shot in the back on her way past the local school, Irene Smith's eyes well up with tears. Rebel soldiers - mere boys who by rights should have been in class - opened fire on her as she wandered into the middle of a chaotic gunbattle. The bullets shattered her pelvis. "Don't cry, be strong," her nurse and friend Anita encouraged her as she told how her fragile life went into freefall in the final ugly phase of Liberia's bloody civil war. Seriously wounded and pregnant, Irene lay bleeding on the ground for hours. No one came to her aid. Even her partner, the father of their young child, had left her for dead. Eventually Irene's mother and an uncle took her to the relative safety of a bush clinic.
Independent Appeal: Where bits of old radios keep patients alive
Published: 20 December 2006
It is a cramped and shabby office which doubles as a workshop. It is littered with bits of old radios and lined with what must be the most comprehensive library of medical equipment manufacturer's manuals - of every vintage - in the Middle East. Its occupant, an engineer named Samir Abu Nada, seems an improbable life saver.
Independent Appeal: Child slaves of Senegal beg to fill their master's bowl
Published: 19 December 2006
In one decrepit corner of the street-corner daara, or Islamic boarding school, about 30 ragged children are on a morning break. For a group of five to 15-year-olds they unusually timid and quiet. They are filthy, pathetically thin and look weak. The heads on their tiny frames seem old before their time.
Independent Appeal: A cold wind of death in Darfur
Published: 18 December 2006
A heavy yellow-brown fog hung over Gereida in the remote western reaches of Darfur yesterday, a place that a year ago was empty desert scrub and which is today the largest refugee camp in the world. It was cold, somewhere about 5C. The air was charged with particles of choking sand.
Independent Appeal: Trading fish for sex - how HIV spread in western Kenya
Published: 16 December 2006
Tiny waves lap around the simple wooden fishing boats moored to the shore as the early morning sun beats down on the fishermen unloading their catch. A mother guts a foot-long tilapia fish while her daughter splashes near by. Teenage boys bathe next to women washing clothes.
Independent Appeal: A race of young slaves
Published: 14 December 2006
Independent Appeal: Rusty van which supplies Gaza's life-blood
Published: 13 December 2006
Dr Hassan Deed Suleiman stares at the three pieces of ricketymachinery that stand between him and a meltdown in Gaza's hospital network.
Independent Appeal: One man's search for the lost slaves of Africa
Published: 12 December 2006
When James Aguer was 20 the slave-masters raided his village in the south of Sudan. They seized many children and killed his mother when she refused to give up her little daughter. James and his siblings were lucky. They escaped and made a laborious journey north to a refugee camp near the capital, Khartoum.
Independent Appeal: Charity in mission to combat India's shameful slave trade
Published: 09 December 2006
Dev Lal is an escaped slave. When he ran away, he was able to go back and rescue his wife and daughters. But he could not save his two young sons, Krishna and Kishan. They are still being held captive by Mr Lal's owner, and the police have refused to do anything about it.
Independent Appeal: Charity Auction 2006
Published: 06 December 2006
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