Cape Town, Film Industry Township Fund. Cape Town is known as the "City of Hope". People of all races are learning to live together in peace, harmony and justice. In a couple of generations the people of South Africa will be showing the rest of the world how it is possible for us all to live and grow together without prejudice or hatred.

However, at the present time there is still a very brutal Economic Apartheid and the disparity in wealth is shocking. For example, in the Township of Khayelitsha, the biggest shanty town in the city, there is an approximate population of 1 million people. Many families are child led due to parental deaths from aids/HIV and the girls (some very young) are forced into prostitution on the highways in order to support their siblings, bringing closer the risk of Aids to further devastate the family.

Afghanistan, Children of the Rubble. Since 2002 Spirit Aid has been working in Baglan Province in N Eastern Afghanistan. In the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains the isolated villages contain a population of ½ million people.

The project was initially started by taking funds to the region and putting together medical teams of local doctors, nurses, paediatricians, dentists, pharmacists, drivers, interpreters and ambulances full of medicine. We now support a compound employing 16 Afghans using 2 mobile health clinics delivering GP type services to around 30,000 people who would otherwise recieve no medical assistance.

In the villages served child mortality from disease has been dramatically reduced. Each Clinic (Vehicle and equipment) costs £6000 to establish with ongoing costs of £1500 a month running costs.

Approximately £40,000 a year to provide 30,000 people with medical services. £1.33 per year per person.