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The Lotus Children's Centre Charitable Trust is dedicated to providing care, accommodation support and education to orphaned, abused, and abandoned children in Mongolia. The Lotus Children's Centre was set up in 1993 by Australian Didi Kalika, who started simply by giving food and basic medical care to children living on the streeets of Ulaanbaatar. She soon realised that more was needed, and with the help of friends built a small home for the children in the ger district of Yarmag, on the outskirts of the capital. Harsh economic conditions in Mongolia resulted in more babies and children being abandoned, and the project grew. In 1997 Didi founded a kindergarten, and this was then followed by The Lotus Primary School. Since then Lotus has cared for and educated up to 150 children at any one time, in small family units each looked after by a housemother. As the children have grown up there has been an increasing emphasis on vocational training programmes to prepare them for adulthood. Lotus also runs a Guesthouse in Ulaanbaatar staffed almost exclusively by ex-Lotus children, which not only provides employment as the older children leave school, but also generates profits which contribute towards the running costs of the Centre. In 2009 Didi Kalika was awarded the Order of Australia for her services to the street children of Mongolia.
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Khan Khan Van's fundraising page
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The Mongol Rally is a gruelling 10,000+ mile drive from London to Mongolia.
Its the furthest away from a holiday as possible as the roads are quite hostile and are known to break cars that are made for traversing them. Ours won't be. It has to be a 1200cc or less vehicle that is more accustomed to driving to the supermarket twice a week rather than across Europe and Central Asia.
If this sounds like an episode of Top Gear your in the right direction apart from we won't have a support crew. If we brake down its up to us (or a friendly local) to bodge the vehicle back together. If one of us breaks....well lets just hope we don't!!
Every little helps and we will be doing many fund raising activities in the run up but if you can't make it to one of them then please donate what you can on here.
Recent donors
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Pop £100.00 (+ £25.00 giftaid) 12.07.12 Wish you all the best & good luck on your adventure. Have fun and enjoy it. Wishing I was going with U's |
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Gary & Helen £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 12.07.12 Good luck Simon and the Khan Khan Van team! It looks an amazing challenge! |
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Anonymous £10.00 11.07.12 |
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Anonymous £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 10.07.12 Go Ray, and don't forget to bring home the duty free. Ha ha Aunty T xx |
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Hansa Patel £20.00 05.07.12 Hope you have a good journey Hansa Patel |
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Stef and Andy Atkinson £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 29.06.12 Good luck boys! We shall be following you! :o) |
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Mr & Mrs S. Kitt £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 28.06.12 Good Luck Si we will be watching your progress. Mum and Dad x |
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Anonymous £200.00 20.06.12 Bottle stall Elgin |
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Bronagh O'Kane £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 26.05.12 Good luck buddy! Come back with great stories for the grandkids one day. x |
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Kevin & Anne £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 05.02.12 Go boys and keep those wheels rolling |
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Anonymous £300.00 26.01.12 Money raised from the raffle at Matalan in Elgin. Thanks to the kind people of Moray for taking part |
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Anonymous £193.49 07.01.12 Thanks to the people of Moray for the funds raised during our raffle at Matalan |
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Stuart Crowther, STV Local £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 18.10.11 Good luck guys, total madness of course but that usually does the trick :) |
