Our outreach is global as shown by some of the projects below. We do not discriminate in terms of gender, nationality or religion. Wherever we identify a need, we operate. These are our current projects. For information on our past activities, please click on this link.
The Blind Relief Association (Delhi), India
The Blind Relief Association was founded in Delhi in 1945 with the principal aim of ensuring that visually impaired people were not marginalised but integrated into the community through education and training. Its pupils now come from all over India and are expertly supervised. The Association has equipment in place to produce audio-cassettes and Braille Books (currently 4000 items in their library) but little available funds to maintain this service.
The MOC Charitable Foundation has financed since 1997 the yearly operational costs of producing audiocassettes and text-books in English, Hindi and Sanskrit, in Braille, including the purchase of the blank cassettes and the paper. Every year, thanks to our contribution, several thousand tapes and hundreds of Braille books are produced. For example,between July 2000 and June 2001,850 Braille books and over 13,000 cassettes were made.We have since assisted the B.R.A. (Blind Relief Association) with the purchase of state of the art digital equipment, to replace tapes with CDs.
In 1999, the MOC Foundation provided a much-needed combined goods and personnel vehicle in memory of one of the Trustees who died in 1998. This vehicle increased the effectiveness of the work of this institution by allowing it to transport students and equipment to work places where they can seek further experience, as well as to outside places of study.
In 2002 we purchased a new high speed duplicator for the production of audio cassettes and funded another replacement goods and personnel vehicle. From 2003 the Trustees decided to extend assistance to this commendable institution by providing funds for a special class for blind children with learning disabilities.
Ethiopia Orphanage, Africa
The MOC Foundation has been a major supporters since 2006 of an orphanage in Ethiopia, administered by “The Ethiopia Link". In 2011 the MOC Trustees donated vital equipment for the efficient running of the house and we have contributed £3500 yearly for the running of this project.
In 2001 Ethiopia Link established a small residential orphanage in the suburbs of Addis Ababa, providing care, protection, food, clothing, shelter, education, religious guidance and medical treatment for 10 boys and girls between the ages of 4 to 20 years. The children have the opportunity of growing up in a structured loving family environment and to complete their education prior to being reintegrated into society.
HCPT - Group 21, UK
The Foundation supports HCPT - The Pilgrimage Trust and in particular its group 21 which included Sixth Formers, old Vaughanians, a nurse, a priest, and a group leader, with their annual pilgrimage to Lourdes. The MOC Foundation has funded three disabled children to Lourdes, every year for the last 6 years.
The Friends of Belarussia Children Hospice
The MOC Foundation has donated close to £30,000 to the Friends of Belarussia Children Hospice. in the period 2006-11. The Hospice provides much needed respite care to children affected by the Chernobyl distaster. The images below show the new building and the British Ambassador opening their hospice.
Other projects
In addition to what we classify as major projects, we assist from time to time a number of other worthy causes. In 2010/11 we supported Prinknash Abbey and The Leprosy Mission, as well as supporting Portland College among others.
The Abaana Project - Zambia
Founded by the Brother of the Sacred Heart in 1956 the school grew from 200 pupils to the current 500, receving little or no subsidy from the Zambian governmemt and relying only on donations from the USA and the UK. It costs £75 a year to maintain a pupil at the school and the Brothers have been able to extend bursaries to close to half of the pupils thanks to the generosity of organisations like the MOC.
In 2006 the Trustees committed additional resources, agreeing to purchase another goods and personnel vehicle.
The Trustees continue to support B.R.A., sponsoring special classes for disabled children, contributing towards operating costs and IT projects, in addition to the on-going Braille and cassettes sponsorship.
As of October 2010 the MOC Foundation contributed over £120,000 (i.e. just under $200,000) towards projects run by the B.R.A. in
BIBIC, UK
bibic has been transforming the lives of disabled children and their families since 1972 with a mission to help those children with conditions affecting their social, communication and learning abilities to achieve their potential for a happier and more fulfilled life. The MOC Foundation has been supporting BIBIC for a number of years, with a contribution in 2011 of £2000 for the Johansen Sound Therapy training.
SENSE International, Kenia
SENSE International discovered us a couple of years ago and we have been contributing towards one of their projects in Kenia. The charity supports deafblind children and in 2011 we have been able to assist with an assistive device to provide rehabilitation.
