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19 January 2021

Nutrition Upgrade for our Feeding Programme

Due to some new funds, we have upgraded our feeding program to provide daily vitamins and deworming tablets for children. Our founder's son Joshua Walker who is a nutritionist has reviewed and improved the feeding programs menu to include more nutritious ingredients to help the children reach their ...

25 November 2020

Can you set an extra space at your table this Christmas?

With just 1 month to go until Christmas, we are currently doing all we can to try and ensure that our families are able to look forward to having food on the table this Christmas.This year has been difficult for us all and even more so for the families we support. The Philippines have followed one ...

18 November 2020

Emergency Relief following the Super Typhoons

First, we want to say a huge thanks to all those who have donated to support our ongoing emergency relief efforts following Typhoon Goni. Your donations made such a difference and enabled us to provide food parcels and much-needed repairs. Just as our efforts were getting underway the unthinkable ...

12 October 2020

Purple News 2020

We are so pleased to announce that this year's edition of the Purple News is now available to download from the resources section. The Purple News is your annual update on all things Purple and this year contains updates of our Purple programmes and how they have been adapted to deal with the ...

19 August 2020

Rotary walk to Manila to support the Purple Community Fund

During September, the members of the family of Rotary Club of Jersey, the Interact Club of Jersey, Purple Community Fund and the Philippine community in Jersey along with their respective families will be undertaking a virtual sponsored walk from Jersey to Manila in the Philippines to support the ...

7 August 2020

New Community Feeding Programme

The prolonged community lockdown in Manila, from March 15th to the present day has resulted in thousands of families unable to work and subsequently earn money to pay for their necessities. Many families have relied on eating a substance they call “pagpag” which is the leftover foods refried ...

5 June 2020

Phones for Futures

We are urgently appealing for donated smartphones for our school children.Like so many countries across the world affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, schools in the Philippines have closed. It is uncertain when they will reopen however school children are encouraged to continue their studies ...

8 January 2020

Purple News 2019

We are so pleased to announce that this year's edition of the Purple News is now available to download from the resources section. The Purple News is your annual update on all things Purple and contains news on our existing Purple programmes, new Purple products as well as details of our future ...

9 June 2019

Purple Article with the Mirror Group and Sunday People

We want to say a huge thank you to our new Purple Champions Simon Lewis, Amy Piumarta and Estelle Keeber who connected us with Kim Willis from Phoenix Features - who arranged for Jane to speak with Patrick Hill from the Mirror Group who wrote this excellent article about our ...