Volunteering Trips and Holidays to Sri Lanka
Jaydd organises Volunteering Trips and Holidays to Sri Lanka, as well as fundraising events for Ocean Stars Trust
OceanStars :: Monday 19th December 2016 :: This Story
JAYDD Limited (Private LTD Company Number 10346019) was formed in September 2016 and is the trading company for Ocean Stars Trust.
Jaydd organises Volunteering Trips and Holidays to Sri Lanka, as well as fundraising events for Ocean Stars Trust (Reg Charity 1110022). JAYDD also offers individuals, schools and other groups in the UK an opportunity to travel to Sri Lanka, and combines a sightseeing holiday with visiting a link school and/or volunteering in Sri Lanka.
For more information about holidays in Sri Lanka please look at the JAYDD website:
and e-mail us at: jayddlimited@gmail.com to plan your dream holiday experience in Sri Lanka.
Let JAYDD take you to Sri Lanka.
December 2016 Newsletter
It’s been almost two weeks now since we returned from our 2016 team trip to Sri Lanka. As on previous occasions, it is taking me time to settle back at home. My head is still full of the sights and sounds we encountered during our time there.
OceanStars :: Wednesday 7th December 2016 :: This Story
It was great to be back, to meet again with our Ocean Stars Lanka team who work tirelessly for us. We ask a lot of them and more than ever I am convinced of their commitment to OST and our dependence upon them as we seek to support and develop our work amongst the Batticaloa community.
As I travelled around the schools, I met up with many of the teachers who have become my friends. I taught in the classrooms and delight-ed in the smiles and laughter that I shared with the children. I was humbled by the sheer joy evident on a local man's face when he re-ceived his chickens, a gift bought from our gift catalogue. And like the rest of our team I was quite stunned to witness computer classes, sewing classes, English classes all taking place in Hope House, Ama-planthurai, a remote and very poor part of the Batticaloa district.
The work of Ocean Stars continues to progress, affecting and changing the lives of many living in remote and difficult circumstances in the North and East of Sri Lanka. We are very aware that this would not be possible without your support and on behalf of all the trustees, I thank you. Your gifts really are making a difference and changing lives.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Download the full December newsletter and see the 2016 highlights.
Bring & Buy Day
COFFEE, CAKE AND BRING AND BUY DAY CHURCH CROOKHAM, FLEET
OceanStars :: Monday 5th December 2016 :: This Story
COFFEE, CAKE AND BRING AND BUY DAY
WHEN: WEDNESDAY 14TH DECEMBER
WHERE: 2, NETHERHOUSE MOOR, CHURCH CROOKHAM, FLEET, HAMPSHIRE, GU51 5TY
TIME: 10.00- 1.00 PM 2.00-5.00 PM
Please come along and bring a friend.
October Trip to Sri Lanka
Meet the OST teams visiting Sri Lanka this Autumn.
OceanStars :: Tuesday 18th October 2016 :: This Story
CPS OST TEAM 2016
www.oceanstarscps2016.blogspot.com
OST TEAM 2 2016
http://ostteam2016.blogspot.co.uk
Also please like Beyond Boundaries fb page as we will have daily photo updates. We kindly invite everyone to add/like the page to get all updates daily as it happen, when it happen.
Ocean Stars Variety Show Review
The 9th Ocean Stars Variety show was held on Saturday 8th October at Fleet Methodist Church at 6.00 pm.
OceanStars :: Wednesday 12th October 2016 :: This Story
There were 21 acts that provided an amazing evening of talent and entertainment. Over £650 was raised for the work of Ocean Stars.
A BIG BIG thank you to all the performers, helpers and audience for making this annual event such a success.
Here is the programme for you to enjoy!
Morgan visits in Baticaloa
Before I left for Sri Lanka, I'd arranged to do some volunteer work for Ocean Stars Trust (OST).
OceanStars :: Friday 30th September 2016 :: This Story
OST are a children's charity, founded in 2005 to support underprivileged children, families and communities in Sri Lanka following the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
I left Trinco and arrived in Batticaloa (Batti; where OST are based) following a rare comfortable bus journey. Diana and Kiru welcomed me with beaming smiles before taking me to my guesthouse, which was nestled among the windy, dusty backroads of Kallady. We talked through the plan for the next four days. I was to visit three 'projects' (a secondary school and two preschools) where I'd assist in lessons.
Read my full report at: https://mileswithmorgan.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/volunteering-in-batticaloa-part-one/
My first two days with OST were eye opening, sad, fun, interesting and intriguing. To have 10 year olds speak so frankly about their home hardships was initially hard to take. However, seeing their pearly whites shine as I we played games and I told them about home reminded me the kids were in good hands at school. It was a chance for the children to learn, have fun, be kids. Amazingly, many of the children's parents still need convincing that school is worthwhile. As well as the standard curriculum, in which the children are taught nine subjects, I'm convinced a tie with a foreign school – thanks to OST – can only help in educating the parents, for their children benefit from visits from people like myself.
Fabulous Cake Sale
On Sunday 25th September Amy and Sophie held an Ocean Stars Trust afternoon tea at Amy's parent's house to raise money for the October trip to Sri Lanka.
OceanStars :: Monday 26th September 2016 :: This Story
There were a delicious and huge range of cakes, sandwiches, tea and coffee, baked by friends and family. It was a great opportunity to talk about the amazing work Ocean Stars does and to share what we will be doing during the trip with everyone that attended and so kindly donated money to the charity!
An amazing £330 was raised!
We also had a slide show of all the photos Sophie took last year so everyone could see what ocean stars does.
Christmas Craft Event
At which you will make three cards, have fun and raise money for a worthwhile cause.
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In aid of Ocean Stars
On Saturday 15th October at
Church on the Heath,
Elvetham Heath GU51 1HA
10am-12.30 pm
Cost: £10
For which you will make three cards, have fun and raise money for a worthwhile cause
Refreshments will be provided
There will be a raffle with some great prizes
To book your place please contact
Christine: 01252 647237
Or Tracey-Anne: 01252 786371
A Volunteers Story
Shiva Logarajah (Third Year Law Student at Columbia Law School, New York, New York, USA) talks about his experience volunteering for Ocean Stars in Sri Lanka....
OceanStars :: Wednesday 14th September 2016 :: This Story
Ocean Stars ("OST") was an organization that I had only fleeting contact with before my first trip to Sri Lanka in August 2016. Despite this, Dilanee and the OST Team went out of their way to organize a trip to visit some of their projects while I was there. I visited the Mahadeva Children's Home in Killinochi, nurseries in the Batticaloa area (Amaplanthurai, Nallur & Karaveddy), and the Hope House in Amaplanthurai.
On the whole, I was thoroughly impressed with the difference OST was making in people's lives in areas that have been devastated by war and natural disaster. What really stuck with me was the fact that OST was going beyond the "life-support" aid that many of us tend to associate with NGOs operating in these sorts of environments. The work OST was doing was, in fact, empowering people--particularly women and children--to be able to help themselves and their communities.
I was born in the United States to Sri Lankan Tamil parents, and I have always been keenly aware of the suffering that people in Sri Lanka have endured after years of war and natural disaster. OST is doing remarkable work--in a compassionate and well-appreciated manner--to help turn the page for many of these communities, and I look forward to supporting OST as it continues to assist people in Sri Lanka.
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Pub Quiz @ The Black Horse
Fantastic quiz night in Crookham Village
OceanStars :: Tuesday 6th September 2016 :: This Story
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