Secretary: Peter Penn
3 Branston Close
Lincoln
LN6 8AG
Email: Peter Penn
Tel: 07989 751929
Branch Website
GA Lincoln Branch
Contact
Programme
AGM (Full Members only)
22 April 2010, 7:00pm
Staff Common Room, Bishop Grosseteste University College
Dates to be confirmed:
June 2010 - Members' Evening and Evening Visit
June/July 2010 - Bunkhouse Weekend and Weekend (B&B) Visit
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Branch Trip to India
spinning coconut fibre into rope
"Members of the Lincoln Branch recently visited Kerala in South India. We were led by Brian Harrison who runs a charity called Lincs with India which sponsors projects for disadvantaged people, especially tribal groups, in the Western Ghats. During our trip we visited four different groups. Some of them lived in remote areas and the party sometimes had to walk along forest paths and travel by boat.
We also saw a range of farming activities and rural industries including spinning coconut fibre into rope and we visted some rural schools.
boys in green and yellow uniform
We visited a hostel for boys whose parents are unable to support them. The hostel provides accommodation, food and medical attention. The boys attend the local school in their uniforms of green shorts and yellow shirts.
Many of the boys are sponsored by people in the UK. Lincs with India helps to support the hostel and has recently improved the water supply by funding a new bore-hole and tank.
A total contrast was provided by a visit to the hill station of Kodicanal and the temple city of Madurai."
Patsy Booth
