After three years, our day clinic, the Volker Heinrich Medical Dispensary, could finally be visited again.

We are pleased to be able to inform you that the day clinic is in good condition and is still well accepted by the population.

Our two doctors Dr. Manoj Pathak (Allopathic) and Dr. Gryan Prakash (Homeopathic) daily from 9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.      

                                 
Dr. Manoj Pathak (Allopathic)                                                                                                                                                         Dr. Gryan Prakash (Homeopathic)

The admissions process for the new 1st grade students for the 2022-2023 school year is in its final stages.

In the last two school years (2020 – 2021 and 2021 – 2022) there were some interruptions in classes due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Due to the admissions for the new first classes that are now definitely coming, the new students are already being introduced to the upcoming school life.

For twenty-five years now, CARE & FAIR has been working together with importers, retailers and carpet producers to fight illegal child labour and improve living conditions for carpet knotters and their families.

We have raised around 11 million EUR through membership fees, donations and import and export duties, and through sponsorship money collected in Germany, India and Pakistan.

Our well-thought-out and lean structures mean that only around 15% of this went on administrative costs in Germany – and less than 7% in the countries of origin – allowing us to directly invest approx.  9 million EUR in various different projects.

Considering that CARE & FAIR is financed entirely through membership and donations, this is something we can be proud of. A look at our »highlights« from the last 25 years also show this. Thousands of children in India, Nepal and Pakistan have received a school education thanks to CARE & FAIR, and some even a university degree. In the clinics we supported, injuries both large and small were treated and illnesses cured, and more and more women are gaining independence for themselves through our education programme. Child labour in the carpet industry is rarely reported, but CARE & FAIR has made a decisive contribution to changing this situation.

The financial support of our members has allowed us to increase parents’ awareness of the importance of allowing their children to go to school, and to support schools, clinics and educational programs.

While early on our funds came mainly from Germany, today we also receive considerable sums from all over the world – including Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Canada, the USA and Australia.

Sponsors often offer us several years’ support for a specific project. This helps us to plan reliably for the long-term. Many sponsors regularly visit “their” projects and offer their own ideas for their further development.

Of course, our work with the association also presents us with some challenges.With the declining number of carpet imports, our income and thus our opportunities to support children working in the knotting regions are declining.

We aim to meet these challenges by actively seeking and finding solutions. Despite financial restrictions in recent years, we have been able to maintain all of CARE & FAIR projects in India and Pakistan.

We look forward to many more successful years with you at our side.
We’ll keep you posted.

Warm regards,

Volker Heinrich
1. Chair / Treasurer
CARE & FAIR

We want to look into the future, in order that we can continue to promote and support children in the knotting regions as well as we can. Join CARE & FAIR in this mission!

Even the smallest donation is a great help…
… and a larger donation can work miracles.

We would be delighted if YOU also helped to secure our existing projects and make new ones possible.

Our warmest thanks for your support!

Over the past 25 years, numerous people and companies around the world have supported CARE & FAIR and made a decisive contribution to our work.

With small, large, single or regular donations and contributions. We would like to offer our heartfelt thanks to all those who have supported CARE & FAIR in its work financially, and to all of our voluntary colleagues and long-standing employees on the three country boards in Germany, India and Pakistan. And we don’t want to forget our former board members and colleagues in Nepal.

Here is a brief list of CARE & FAIR’s most important supporters:

Volker Heinrich Orient – Teppich – Import GmbH, Hamburg (Germany)
Formerly ICT Intertrade Carpet AG, Zug (Switzerland)
John Lewis Foundation, London (Great Britain)
Formerly Wissenbach, Pohlheim (Germany)
ICE MARCJANSSEN, Waardenburg (Netherlands)
Lahore Carpet Manufacturing Company, Lahore (Pakistan)
India Foundation – Marianne & Frank Kochmann, Wallenhort (Germany)
Nanimarquina S. L., Barcelona (Spain)
Homefashion Group B.V., Tilburg (Netherlands)
Decor-Union – Einkauf und Service GmbH, Hanover (Germany)
SN-Verlag, Hamburg (Germany) – Together with CARE & FAIR, SN Verlag built a school in India and sponsored it for five years. We were supported by free advertisements and articles in their carpet magazine.

They all committed themselves to our projects out of conviction, giving us their valuable time and accepting financial sacrifices. Over the course of our 25-year existence, they have steered CARE & FAIR’s destiny, making our association what it is today and continuing to encourage us in our work. This gives us the confidence to look to the future full of energy and drive to further improve the living conditions of people in the carpet knotting regions!

Through your commitment and financial help, we have been able to achieve great results. We hope that you will continue to support us, so that we can go on enabling the knotting families and there children to determine their own lives in the future.

CARE & FAIR has earned worldwide recognition and respect in the 25 years since it was founded.

Many years before the media campaign, individual importers had already shown commitment to the welfare of the knotting families they relied on. This is how the first project came about – with children taught under a tree in the Amita School.

It was THIS experience that was the key step towards building the first school. And other important projects would later follow.

Now for the “highlights” of CARE & FAIR’s 25 years of work:

1994

• A working group to combat child labour in the carpet industry was created.
• September: The CARE & FAIR – Teppichhandel gegen Kinderarbeit e. V. association is founded.

1995

• CARE & FAIR is recognised as a professional association.
• August: CARE & FAIR India is founded.

1996

• The first monetary aid is transferred to India.
• November: CARE & FAIR Nepal is founded.
• The first projects are supported in Nepal: the Jawalakhel Clinic and a school.
• By now CARE & FAIR has 348 members, is supporting 13 projects in India, Nepal and Pakistan, and has over 1 million DM in financial resources.

1997

• CARE & FAIR takes over its first hospital in India (Jwala Hospital), begins to expand the building and acquires its own ambulance.
• CARE & FAIR receives a Gold Badge of Honour from the Vetega Gilde purchasing consortium.
• CARE & FAIR Pakistan is registered.

1998

• CARE & FAIR takes over operations of the open-air Amita School (India) and begins to construct a school building.
• CARE & FAIR expands its support to all members of rug and carpet knotting families and gets involved with the Boudha Clinic in Kathmandu.
• Construction of a new primary school in India, Phase 1 (Chaksikhari School).

1999

• CARE & FAIR has 780 members around the world.
• Construction of a new school in India (Haji Saheb Ali School) begins.

2000

• CARE & FAIR India hires Dr. Gupta as its full-time medical doctor. All of the children at CARE & FAIR’s own schools now receive regular check-up exams.
• The flagship Vern School in Pakistan is completed as the first new school built with CARE & FAIR -Funding and continued financing from the local community.
• The decision is made to build a new CARE & FAIR Grameen School in India (the old one was taken over in 1997).
• August: The Chitani Talab Dispensary begins the DOTS tuberculosis treatment programme introduced by the public health authority (DOTS = Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course).
• The Haji Saheb Ali School (India) is dedicated.

2001

• The Semuhi School is dedicated as another new CARE & FAIR school in India.
• September: CARE & FAIR introduces the Women Empowerment Program (WEP) to educate women. At the Amita School (India) women learn how to sew and embroider and are taught basic skills in reading, writing and mathematics.
• The US Barakat Inc., which will cover the cost of continuing the Grameen School and sponsoring the ongoing costs for an initial 5 years. From now on the school is called.
  CARE & FAIR Barakat School.

2002

• CARE & FAIR USA is registered in New York.
• September: Another WEP is established at the Barakat School.

2003

• Since being founded, CARE & FAIR has spent 2.66 million EUR on aid and assistance efforts.
• A school garden for agricultural lessons is planted at the Semuhi School (India).

2004

• CARE & FAIR finances 32 projects.
• November: The Jawalakhel Clinic building, with the CARE & FAIR – office, is dedicated in Kathmandu.

2005

• The »Förderverein CARE & FAIR e.V. « sponsorship association is established as a charitable organisation.
• The State Department of Health Services assumes the costs for tuberculosis medicine and now works closely together with us. We only continue to pay the costs for implementing the DOTS programme .

2006

• Taeppe Cirklen (now Linie Design) from Lynge, Denmark, teams up with its suppliers in India to take over the operating costs for the Chaksikhari School.
• Hill & Co. Rugs, London, assumes the operating costs for our Haji Saheb Ali School (India).
• The Chitani Talab Medical Dispensary is renamed Volker Heinrich Medical Dispensary

2007

• Construction of the Vern Girls School in Pakistan begins.
• A new ambulance is acquired for the Jawalakhel Clinic in Kathmandu.

2008

• The Vern Girls School is dedicated.
• September: A WEP begins at, what is now, the Linie Design School.

2009

• Construction of the CARE & FAIR carpetXL in India begins.
• Talks begin with the John Lewis Foundation, London, regarding the construction of a high school for girls.
• Thanks to a large donation, the decision is made to install PCs at all CARE & FAIR-own Schools in India and to included computer classes in the curriculum.
• September: The DOTS tuberculosis treatment programme is introduced at the Jwala Hospital (India).
• Mr. Abdul Mabood Khan transfers a piece of land in Mowaiya, Cheelh, Mirzapur (India) to CARE & FAIR to build another schoole.

2010

• The CARE & FAIR carpetXL (India) is dedicated; a WEP course begins in July.
• October: A WEP is established at the Haji Saheb Ali School (India) and two rooms are added.
• A yoga centre is set up at the Jawalakhel Clinic in Kathmandu and appropriate courses offered.

2011

• September: Our sixth WEP course begins at the Semuhi School (India).
• For the first time, graduates of the WEP course are given the opportunity to lease sewing machines for a small fee as a way to give these women greater independence. As an extra incentive, CARE & FAIR places orders for them to sew school uniforms.

2012

• Hellenic Canada is brought on board as a sponsor to cover the operating costs for the KVM School and the KVM Clinic (India).

2013

• Construction of the John Lewis Foundation Girls High School (Chaksikhari, India) begins.
• A new ambulance is acquired in Nepal, sponsored by the Rotary Club Hamburg-HafenCity.
• The Haji Saheb Ali School (India) is supplied with solar energy.
• All of the children at CARE & FAIR schools are to be given solar lamps, to replace the more dangerous kerosene lamps.
• The Kantilal Vidya Mandir School, which has been supported since its inception, is 25 years old.

2014

• Inauguration of the John Lewis Foundation Girls High School.
• Inauguration of WEP VII at the B.B. Singh Public School.
• Every year, mobile health and eye care examinations are carried out in various areas, particularly in Nepal.
• In India, teacher training courses are held annually.
• WEP VI – construction of a larger classroom at CARE & FAIR’s Semuhi School.
• The project previously sponsored by the Canadian company Hellenic and not owned by CARE & FAIR, the Kantial Vidya Mandir School / Clinic, is now supported by the Australian company Armadillo based in New South Wales. This already took over the running expensise of this project at the end of 2014. In addition, Armadillo has assumed the costs for necessary repairs and maintenance since then.

2015

• Donations for victims of the earthquake in Nepal: following the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, CARE & FAIR set up a donations account and provided immediate aid through CARE & FAIR Nepal in Kathmandu..
• In July, a new ambulance was introduced for CARE & FAIR Nepal / Health & Ambulance Services.
• Through Light to Enlightenment: The new campaign by CARE & FAIR: Solar lamps for all children, so they can continue learning in the evening without the need for dangerous kerosene lamps.
• CARE & FAIR celebrates its birthday: 20 years of existence. We look back on this time with pride and satisfaction.
• The Rug Establishment by Hiphome (Australia) and its exporter Designer’s Desire (India) are announced as the new sponsors of CARE & FAIR’s carpetXL School.
• The Semuhi School is sponsored by Hali Handmade Carpets (Australia) from 01.01.2015 onwards.
• Following successful completion of the construction of the John Lewis Girls High School, its playground is put back into operation.

2016

• The State Bank of India donates a 26-seater school bus to CARE & FAIR (India). The school bus provided to us allows us to transport teachers from Bhadohi to the schools and to provide educational trips for the children.
• Training programme held for teachers.

2017

• New solar energy systems: with this, all of CARE & FAIR’s schools are now equipped with solar energy systems.
• From April onwards, miinu GmbH, Germany takes over the running costs for the Semuhi School in India.
• New secondary school in the Haji Saheb Ali School, India. CARE & FAIR proudly integrates a secondary school (grades 9 and 10) into the existing Haji Saheb Ali School.

2018

• A new and larger school bus is purchased thanks to a donation from the John Lewis Foundation.
• Solar lamp distribution: In March 2018, solar lamps are distributed to 800 children in CARE & FAIR schools.
• Thanks to Amy Kent, a carpet designer from England, CARE & FAIR is able to support the Kantilal Vidya Mandir (KVM) School in the construction of a new drinking water system.
• An English workshop is organised for teachers and headteachers at CARE & FAIR schools: this is intended to encourage the participants (teachers and principals) to speak English more often.
• CARE & FAIR goes green – we remained true to this motto. All CARE & FAIR schools now have solar systems, and all the old fans have been replaced.
• Donation action for new blackboards: all blackboards in the schools are exchanged for new white ones. This removes the serious problem of the chalk dust, which posed a health risk to the children.

2019

• ICE MARCJANSSEN is announced as the new sponsor of the V.H. Medical dispensary.
• Seasons meal in the Barakat School, sponsored by CarpetVista AB, Sweden.
• A new school bus for the teachers: this bus was donated to CARE & FAIR by the Sunbeam Group of Educational Institutions.
• Health check up camps for carpet-knotting families; sponsored by Ambadi Enterprises Ltd, India.

2020

• March: EYE Camp for carpet weaving families;sponsored by Ambadi Enterprises Ltd., India.
• As in the previous year, C & F gave the children in the schools a “Season’s Meal”
• Since the schools in India were also closed due to Corona, C & F organized a workshop for the teachers so that they could still organize and implement smooth school processes.

2021

• After our long-standing sponsor of the John Lewis Girls High School, the John Lewis Foundation, UK, ended its sponsorship, C & F was able to inspire a new sponsor for this school:
• The new sponsor is now the Rug & Home Foundation (USA) and Vision Express (UNITED STATES). The school was renamed the C&F Girls Hight School.
• After talks about sponsoring with the German online retailer benuta in Bonn (DE), we were able to record a great result. It was decided to build a new school. The land for construction       was donated to C&F in India by Mr. Ahsan Raul Khan (Member of the Board in India). Construction started in July.