Charity Quiz Night
Charity Quiz night for Ocean Stars Trust with your quiz master Mike Gardner. This Saturday 24th June
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Ocean Stars Charity Quiz night.
All Saints Parish Hall, Church Road, Fleet
£10 per head including quiz and pizza!
Tickets available on the door or contact
Ocean Stars Charity Gala Evening
17th June 2017 at the Black Horse Pub in Church Crookham Village
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The Black Horse Pub, The Street Crookham Village, GU51 5SJ
Live entertainment
Two course meal from wo course meal from "Tastes of Thailand"
Charity Auction
6pm to 9pm
To purchase tickets for this event please contact Shahana Ramsden
Email: shahanaramsden@yahoo.co.uk
Text: 07423 699346
Tickets: Adults £24 Children £12
Curry Evening
Oceans Stars are holding our annual curry evening in Fleet Methodist Church on Saturday 13th May
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OCEAN STARS TRUST CURRY EVENING
WHEN: Saturday 13th May 2017
WHERE: Fleet Methodist Church
WHAT TIME: 7.15 PM FOR 7.30PM START
WHAT'S ON OFFER: Rice and curry meal, Dessert and Drink.
COST:
£10.00 per person
£25.00 Family Ticket
Money raised on the evening will go towards the work of the Ocean Stars Trust in Sri Lanka. Ocean Stars now supports over 600 children in preschool education as well as child sponsorship programmes. Thanks to your support we are able to carry on with the work we do. So please come along and support this event and invite a friend along too. Please contact Dilanee on 01252 692248 or dilanee@ntlworld.com or Ruth Hughes on 01252 614150 or ruthhughes@btopenworld.com for tickets.
Do your bit while you shop at Waitrose!
To all our supporters in Fleet...
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To all our Ocean Stars Fleet Supporters.
Waitrose has chosen Ocean Stars Trust as one of their Community Matters charities for March 2017!
So please make sure you shop everyday at Waitrose in Fleet in March and put your token in the Ocean Stars slot!!
Thank you so much.
Ocean Stars Team
Pancake Cafe
In Fleet Methodist Church 25th February
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FANCY A PANCAKE?
THEN COME TO THE
"OCEAN STARS PANCAKE CAFÉ"
SATURDAY 25.2.16
FLEET METHODIST CHURCH
10.00 AM-1.00 PM
Bring a friend along! We look forward
to seeing you!
Dan Visiting Sri Lanka
Ocean Stars Trustee Revd. Dan Haylett is in Sri Lanka for 10 days
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He is visiting our Ocean Stars Lanka Team on the ground.
On his first day he met members of the Ocean Stars Lanka Committee who support our the work of Diana, Kiruthika, Pooja and Jeraleen.
On Sunday 5th February 2017 Revd. Dan attended a church service at Urani Methodist Church where he spoke about the link that Fleet Methodist Church has set up with Mandur Methodist Church.
During the week Dan will be visiting preschools and collecting data and meeting our new students.
Ocean Stars Lanka receive their first visitors for 2017!
Dilanee’s Auntie Sakun and Uncle Neville from Toronto Canada...
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They received a warm welcome when they arrived on Tuesday 31st January at the Ocean Stars Lanka Office by our Ocean Stars Lanka Team, Diana, Kiruthika, Pooja and Jeraleen. They will be spending two days visiting our projects and getting to know Ocean Stars operations on the ground.
If you are interested in visiting Sri Lanka or any of our projects do get in touch.
Charity Quiz Night hits the Headlines
Thank you to everyone who came and supported our quiz night for Ocean Stars Trust
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Quiz night raises £ 778.00 for work of Ocean Stars in Sri Lanka.
BIKE SRI LANKA - Pedalling for Preschools
On the 26th of December 2013, Sophie Stevens & Pete Oswald began a 27 day mountain bike tour around Sri Lanka. The goal was to raise enough money to replace a roof on the Karaveddy Preschool in the Eastern Province, an area badly effected by Civil War and
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We just found this beautiful video from 2 years ago - Sophie and Pete on their mountain bike tour around Sri Lanka. Their goal was to raise enough money to replace a roof on the Karaveddy Preschool in the Eastern Province - which they did! Pete & Sophie rode 1274km, climb over 8100m and raised over $5466 NZD - a fabulous effort.
You can see the results in the video! https://vimeo.com/92173997
Visiting Sri Lanka
Find out about Jenny Dixon's experience volunteering for Ocean STars in Sri Lanka
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At half term I had the privilege of joining a group of 35, including 18 youngsters and 4 teachers from a secondary school in Fleet (team 1), who went to work with a charity called Ocean Stars, based in Batticola in east Sri Lanka. I was part of team 2, who visited the 15 pre-school groups funded by the charity in remote areas where the is otherwise no provision for free early schooling.
The Ocean Stars Trust was started after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, when the whole of the east coast of Sri Lanka was affected by this while still suffering in the Civil War with the Tamil Tigers. More than 5000 people lost their lives in Sri Lanka in the tsunami. Team 1 worked in secondary Schools, bringing fresh ideas, enthusiasm and laughter into lives devastated by events. In 2 school half the students were left as orphans and 1 teacher lost the whole class. The school had to be rebuilt and a counsellor is always on duty.
Team 2, working in pairs, each spent a morning in a pre-school group, basing songs, games and craft work on the story 'Rainbow Fish', which was read by us and translated by an interpreter. A friend and I went to the newest school - just a building beside a road, with concrete floor and open sides above shoulder height. No water, no toilets, little equipment, but happy, co-operative, well-behaved children who readily joined in with everything we had organised for them. Our parting gift to every single child a teddy bear, lovingly knitted in Britain. (These are given every year, so contributions are always welcome.)
On two mornings we travelled by tuk-tuk to a small village where a community centre has been set up for women who have been left as head of the household. Here they can meet, relax and make things to sell. A teacher comes to teach tailoring and another to instruct in the use of the three computers housed in a shipping container held aloft on what will be the toilets. They are also hoping to provide English lessons. We worked on the concrete floor and the water for tea had to be collected from the village, but a well was opened while we were there and the toilets will come in time! Solar panels on the roof of the shipping container provide power. We showed the ladies (originally a group of 15, but word must have got out and the numbers increased to the top 20s!) how to make greetings cards using several different methods and were pleased with the skill showed and the colours the combined.
One evening we all went to a school hall and shares lots of different activities with people with impaired hearing and on another occasion we were treated to an entertainment by the secondary students from Batti and from Fleet.
What a wonderful experience it was, and all instigated by a lovely Sri Lankan lady who left the island when she was 14 and who is quite sure that God has lead her to do this work and guides everything she plans.
May God continue to bless her and the work of Ocean Stars Trust.
If you would like to join us in Sri Lanka please contact us to find out more.