Zoom meeting

For 36 years, David worked on our railways, becoming the National Safety Officer for British Rail by the time he retired in 1996. It was in 1989 on his way home from advising Australian Railways that he stopped briefly in Bombay to be challenged by a 6 year old's plight in the main railway station. First he became a member of Amnesty International’s child abuse panel and discovered that railways and bus stations are often the only home for the 50 million street children in the world. Then, he was inspired to set up Railway Children in 8 countries, including the UK. Some of the children have run away from abusive families; others have been forced to leave home because there is not enough food to feed them. So they resort to begging, fetching and carrying to support themselves and to avoid being approached by undesirables.

            Two types of help are offered:-

1) Help and advice for the street children seeking to reunite them, if possible, with their families.

2) Shelter as a route to long term housing with healthcare, education, counselling and friendship.

            I’m sure that, individually and as a Club, we will want to give money to such a wonderful and worthwhile charity, not least because Railway Children was the brainchild of a Nantwich resident and because its head office is in Scope House, Crewe (Tel 251571)