MEND

MEND depends on donations and volunteers to reach out to the disabled and disadvantaged in poorer countries around the world.

MEND makes excellent use of every dollar donated to it.  If you would like to support our work, please make a direct credit to the following account:

MEND Trust

ANZ Bank, Keri Keri Branch, New Zealand

Acc. No: 01-0382-0043240-50

Or, you can  send a cheque to us, made out to MEND Trust, and mailed to us at:

PO Box 94, 23 Landing Road

Keri Keri, Northland, New Zealand

Thank you very much for your support!!

We happily accept used hearing aids - especially the behind the ear type. These are refitted by audiologists and sold to help raise funds for our rehabilition centres.

We also love to get used prosthetic limbs. They can be re-fitted to disabled people and change their lives. Please contact MEND at mend@xtra.co.nz if you have used hearing aids or limbs, or could help us collect them in your area.

MEND has several opportunities for volunteers.

• We need volunteers to call around their local community seeking used hearing aids and prosthetic limbs, walkers, and calipers
• We need volunteers to print out the latest edition of the MEND newsletter on their own computer, and other volunteers to mail out these newsletters with handwritten notes of thanks to our donors
• We need volunteers to research grants and awards that MEND can apply for
• We need volunteers to offer to show the MEND DVD to community service organisations, or even at the local library
• We need volunteers to show the MEND DVD to local schools
• We need volunteers who are traveling to India, Kashmir, or Nepal to bring some used hearing aids or prosthetic limbs with them. These can be dropped off and then shipped locally or picked up, saving expensive transport costs.
• We need volunteers traveling to India, Kashmir, or Nepal to bring back items we have been given or purchased so we can raffle them off in New Zealand to raise funds.
• We need volunteers to come to MEND projects around the world to see for yourselves the work being done, and help where you can.

VolunteerApplicationForm.doc

Please save then complete the form.

  E-mail to the following address.

mend@xtra.co.nz

MENDs wish list currently includes:

• A 2 Hole Punch
• Used Laptop computers to be brought to the Hope Disability Centre in Kashmir in April 2009 - for computer training
• A printer to print more cards showing the artwork of disabled people MEND works with. Some of the artists are deaf, some paint with their mouths.