A
major part of the aid raised by Hope and Aid Direct (HaAD) comes from
corporations or their employees. If your company would like to raise
funds or to help with the work of Hope and Aid Direct you will receive
our full cooperation and support. One of our representatives will be
in regular contact to give support and information.
Here are just a few
of the ways that corporations can support the people of the Balkans
and Eastern Europe.
Chocolates from Cadburys being distributed amongst the children of a
Roma village
Raise funds/aid
A lot of aid that
Hope and Aid Direct comes from small teams from within a company
which organises events such as nights out, day trips, raffles, competitions
etc.
Benefits include
team building, morale building and publicity. The amount of
publicity raised depends on the imagination of those involved.
Sponsor a truck
A truck supplied by Cymru Self Drive Hire in action in the field
The average truck
that we take out to the Balkans or Eastern Europe costs between
£2,500 and £3,000 to rent, fuel, insure, tax and ferry across to the
mainland. Each truck can carry several tons of aid and each one that
leaves the UK will reach approximately 100 individual families
whilst there.
Sponsoring a truck
can be done as a one off payment from your business, funds raised by
your employers or a combination of the two.
The benefits will
include a good team building exercise for up to three people as they
drive the truck across Europe and deliver the aid in person. Hope and Aid Direct will also help in any publicity that you require
including photo shoots and press releases.
Sponsor a village
This village is made up of four to five houses and as a result does
not normally receive the full benefit of international aid.
Sponsoring a village is
a new variation on town twining
Town twining was
originally designed for a relatively well off town to help out its
less well off twin town. This works well for towns, but there a
large number of small villages and hamlets that have about three or
four houses which get missed out.
Over 85% of the
homes in Kosovo were destroyed or damaged by the conflicts. Every
household is affected by the infrastructures destroyed in the wars
(roads, bridges, poisoned water supplies, electricity,
communications, etc).
Hope and Aid Direct
have started a pioneering project of getting corporations to sponsor
these small hamlets. This allows the corporation to concentrate the
efforts on a small group of families and their needs. There is far
more chance for hands on help, which is where Hope and Aid Direct specialise. We don't believe that when you give aid it should stop
there, we give you the opportunity to deliver the aid yourself so
you can see your aid in action.
Hope and Aid Direct
will provide all the information that you require, including finding
a village or hamlet best suited to your requirements and size.
As this would be an
ongoing project there would also be ongoing publicity involved with
fund raising events and trips out to help deliver the aid.
For more details of any of the above, please email us here.
After speaking to one of our team members your next step is downloading our handbook to see how you can help one of the UK's foremost humanitarian aid charities help the people of the former Balkan states. You'll need a password to do this, which you'll get from the contact you speak to.
When you have read the handbook you will be able to decide if you want to join us on a convoy or be part of the home based team, fundraising or publicising our work in your town, amongst family, friends and colleagues and collecting aid. We can provide you with publicity material.
