A hub for the many restless beings who want to turn up the volume on poverty, injustice, persecution and the unheard voices around the world

We need YOU!

As many of you may know Restless Beings has worked tirelessly over the last few months on its first project, which aimed to generate money to build a rehab centre and home for street children in Bangladesh. Last year we launched the "Big Ten Challenge", from which we hoped to raise the required £10,000 to begin building the centre.

To our delight, we reached the target mark quicker than expected, and once again would like to sincerely thank everyone who has helped us in reaching this target and to everyone who has kindly opened their eyes, hearts, wallets and purses towards this project and the children who are at the centre of it. We truly appreciate your generosity and are now looking to open the rehab centre in time for the Restless Beings first anniversary on 1st May.

Now that we have reached this significant milestone, the next challenge is to ensure that we can sustain the project ensuring the children receive continuous support and care. We aim to provide amongst other things:

• The safety of having a roof over their head and a place they can rest at night
• Three meals per day to rid the children of malnutrition
• Full medical care and assistance to ensure the children are immunised against major diseases
• Psychological counselling to ensure that any sensitive issues or abuse cases are handled and help the children to overcome their ordeals (including self harm and substance misuse as well as physical and sexual abuse)
• A manageable education, where the children are taught according to their capabilities
• An array of life skills lessons that will empower the children with real vocational ability that they can use. As an organisation we believe in a holistic approach to developing these young people, and the key here is to encourage autonomy and confidence
• Creative Nourishment & Growth: A programme which involves the development of key skills and talents of each child to promote creative growth, which may open the doors to opportunities that these children would not normally have

To achieve all this the children need our continued financial support. We therefore request you to extend your generosity in the form of a standing order, for any amount of money. Even £5 per month would go a long way towards the rehabilitation of these once helpless children.

To achieve all this the children need our continued financial support. We therefore request you to extend your generosity in the form of a standing order, for any amount of money. As an example:

• £10 per month will allow us to provide up to 20 children with fresh water for a month
• £25 per month will allow us to provide up to 20 children with a life skills tutor
• £30 per month will allow us to provide 4 sessions of counselling for up to 20 children
• £50 per month will sponsor one child for an entire month (including, providing education, three square meals per day, counselling sessions, medical care, accommodation)

Download the standing order form ( MS Word )

You should print the form off, fill in all the details on the form and then send to our registered office. You can find the address at the foot of the form. We ask you kindly to allow us upto fourteen days for processing the standing order, so please have the start date of your standing fourteen days from when you send the form.

Please complete and email it to info@restlessbeings.org.

Many Many thanks for expressing a desire to make a difference and then actually making that difference by being part of a needed change in a helpless child's life. Please note, Restless Beings operates on a 0% administration costs ethos so 100% of every penny you donate will go to the project and all of the children involved. If you have any questions, or queries, do get in touch, we love speaking to other Restless Beings!

Image Courtesy of Hab Rahman