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ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury Dr , ‘
Rowan Williams has agreed to
become patron of a remarkable
health project in India, founded
by Bridge and Littlebourne GP
surgeries.

Dr Williams told trustees he was
delighted to have been asked,
and wants to be kept informed of
developments.

    

 

COMPARE and contrast. In
New York, former mayor Rudi
Giuliani clamped down on
crime by encouraging tougher
sentences for offenders,
introducing a three-strikes and
you're out rule and putting
police on the streets.

No more telling an illustration
of the failure of the authorities
to deal with low-level crime

the 1990s when Dr Mark Jones
returned from a visit to _Bihar,
one of the poorest states in India.

Dr Jones, fellow GPs, nurses and h‘%1'e 931?? than When 3
other staff founded the project to mend V1S1t,ed Canterbury 0“
build a health centre in Kanjiar, Saturday night-

and recruit a qualified nurse and As he walked through the High

a village health team, Street, he passed a woman
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Kanjiar and other villages.

screeching and swearing
from the marauding gangs of
drunks.

Health For All is concerned with
child malnutrition, creating

   

women's self health groups and Meanwhile all around the
the installation of water pumps City. gfaffiti is appearing On
and e1eCtI'i0itY- buildings and signs at an
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administrative expenses are kept Dr Mark Jones at a Health For All women s clinic In Dadpur, Indla respond to all this mayhem
to 3 minimum and mess? They bombard

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Littlebourne and other areas d d. t. t P g .t
have_backed Health For All with :f ltca 103 0 commumbfl
numerous fundraising activities :1 egg 3‘: t:)’I1'ignaél:)S:t1::)W1(S:afe
and now hope to form Friends of . ng

Health For An everyone feels.
Trustee Vicky Talbot-Rosner, WHY are the westgate

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M3l’ath0D.0n April 17. On behalf an hour to kill the other day
Of the PI‘0JeCt- so decided to grab something

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THE threat of litigation and
the growth of red tape are mak-
ing it harder for volunteers to
offer their services, especially
to young people, says MP
Julian Brazier.

Mr Brazier, who represents
Canterbury and Whitstable,
made these comments when he
spoke on the first reading on
Tuesday of his Private Mem-
ber’s Bill.

If successful the bill would
establish a certificate of recog-
nition of inherent risk to help
protect Volunteers and organi-
sations from unreasonable liti-
gation where sensible safety
standards had been kept.

It would also try to reduce the
costs of insurance through a
pooling system and transfer
certain civil liabilities from vol-

unteers working for Govern-
ment, local government or
other bodies to those organisa-
tions.

On bureaucracy it would try
to remove the charges incurred
by voluntary organisations for
registering with the Criminal
Records Bureau and for pro-
cessing their paid staff.

This would not reduce protec-
tion for children but would
lighten the burden for volun-
tary organisations.

It would also establish a regis-
ter of employers who encour-
age volunteering. '

Mr Brazier said volunteering
had always been a crucial part
of the British way of life and
today 10 million people took
part in such work each week
and 22 million were involved

 

each year. Threats of litigation
were leading many organisa-
tions to lose volunteers.

As an example, Mr Brazier
said, 50,000 children in Britain
are on a waiting list to join the
Girl Guides but can’t because
of a shortage of instructors.

Mr Brazier said he was
delighted to be sponsoring a
bill on volunteering, which was

promoted by a cross-party’ '

group of MPs.

“Whenever I talk to volun-
teers they tell me that more
and more of that time is‘
absorbed in red tape, detract-
ing.from the essential work
their organisations exist to pro-
vide,” Mr Brazier said.

The Bi1l’s second reading is
expected to be on March 5.

 

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Launch event singled out for success

BUSINESSWOMEN Sarah Banks and Laura
Savage are hoping for a good response to their
grand launch event in Canterbury next week.
Following an article in this paper they received
many calls about Viva Elite, a venture aimed
at organising social events for single people.

Said Sarah: “We had an encouraging response
to the story and are expecting our launch

evening to be a great success.”

She added that they still have some places left
for the dine and danc ‘event at Howfield

 

Manor, Chartham Hat, h, on Saturday, January - 
17, and would lik to ear from anyone 
interested, parti, larl men. ’ 

For more information about the event contact A. <
Sarah or Laura on 01304 374374.