In 2023 OWGO donated the funding for 2 patient monitors to serve the Herona Hospital in the Mukono district of Uganda. Since June these have enabled the monitoring and effective triage of over 2,000 patients/month including for emergency obstetric care and for pre-operative and intra-operative care.

Our 2020 Christmas appeal paid for the construction of a health clinic at Sano Bhorle, Nepal. The Health Post provides first response assistance, medicines, basic dental care, ante- and post-natal support, and health and hygiene education for five villages in a remote mountainous farming area north of Kathmandu in Nepal. Previously, villagers had to make a costly and lengthy trip to see a doctor – or, in many cases, try to ride out infections and injuries, which often led to a deterioration in their conditions. The project was overseen by Justin Wickham (the son of OWG members) of Learning Planet. Throughout, villagers and the local health authorities were closely consulted; and the land, and much of the labour, was donated by villagers. The local health authority was so impressed by the quality of the building and facilities that it decided to provide two staff, instead of the one which had been promised – a midwife/nurse and a general health professional.

Our 2022 Christmas appeal paid for the construction by Mission Africa of two new classrooms at the Joanna Memorial School in Nakaseke, in the central region of Uganda. This enabled the school to expand from 130 pupils to 210. Previously, the children had nowhere to go to school. Maize, bean and banana crops are grown to feed the children, using a large kitchen suitable for the expanded numbers. Teaching staff are paid by a combination of small fees from parents and funding from Mission Africa.

In 2022, we donated the cost of a second-hand vehicle to enable Axium Education, which operates in rural areas of South Africa, to expand its programme of literacy training. This programme is facilitated by community members working with learners in small groups within the classroom. In addition, learners attend fun, interactive reading and numeracy clubs in community members’ homes.

Tabaar Hostel, Jaipur helps and protects desperate, starving and abused children who have run away from home. The Centre tries to repatriate children to their families, but many cannot be traced and the centre provides these children with accommodation, food, medical help and education. Our Christmas Appeal 2017 enabled the purchase of an ambulance/bus to take sick children to hospital, to take other children to school and to enable children to have a monthly outing.

Our Christmas Appeal 2016 funded the building of a fifth classroom for Paini school in India. Paini has a desperately poor population. Despite this, the school has achieved very good results and has become a beacon of hope for the community.

In Labakore, a village in the Gambia, we paid for a bore hole, tank, pump and solar panels to power the pump. Previously the 4,000 inhabitants had to walk 2-3 miles several times a day to get water, which was often dirty. They now get clear, clean water in their village.

We have made two donations to Kole Women's Association in Uganda to enable them to purchase machinery and equipment, and to provide training to local women, so that they can use waste materials to make briquettes, which are used for fuel.

One World Group Oxted paid for the installation of a water well and hand-operated pump in the village of Jabouin in Haiti. Previously, women and children had to walk great distances in search of fresh water, which was often contaminated and sometimes caused illnesses such as typhoid and cholera.

Our Christmas Appeal 2017 was for a three classroom high school in the mountainous tribal area of Mindanao in the Philippines. The local people used land and trees donated by the tribe to build the school. Students previously had to travel long distances to stay at, and attend, a high school. The new school enables them to be educated locally, which helps to preserve the village, the families and their farming.