 Order of Malta Dial-a-Journey
Order of Malta Dial-a-Journey is a special door-to-door transport service throughout the Forth Valley area of Scotland for the disabled, most of whom would otherwise be housebound. Along with Shopmobility, which offers disabled users whilst shopping at local supermarkets the use of power or manual wheel chairs and scooters free of charge. Users are given assistance from their front door to the Dial-a-Journey bus to their destination at a much lower cost than by taxi. The service operates seven days a week, 364 days a year. A local user says. "The drivers are very well trained and make you feel completely at ease. I have been using the service two or three times a week since 1987 otherwise, I would be completely housebound. I have no other way of getting out".
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 Let The Children Live - Care for children of the Streets
They are called 'the disposable ones'. They live and sometimes die in the streets and rubbish dumps of the cities of Columbia in South America. They range from six-year-olds to teenagers and are often unloved, unwanted, beaten, robbed, abused, raped and murdered. They have to survive the best way they can in these drug plagued cities and easily fall prey to violence and abuse. You can imagine the pain, hunger and abuse. Let The Children Live provide care for over 800 children in Don Bosco City alone, for example they run open dormitories to protect children during the night and they provide education where they can learn trades. Let The Children Live is a small registered charity with an enormous and vital task to perform. It is a Christian foundation and its aims both safeguard the lives of children from violence and poverty of the streets and make their lives worth living by giving them love, education and a future. Please help them.
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 PF Counselling Service
The pf Counselling Services was established in 1986 and is the largest independent voluntary counselling agency in Edinburgh. It has over 80 fully qualified Psychotherapists and Counsellors, who all volunteer there on a weekly basis. The agency is open to all, irrespective of their ability to pay, their creed or social circumstances. The pf supports the NHS by providing this type of low cost, accessible counselling in Lothian. It offers both short and long therapy to adults, where issues as diverse as depression, anxiety, abuse, self-esteem, grief or relationships, to name but a few, can be explored and overcome in a safe, non-judgemental and therapeutic environment. The pf relies on client donations and outside funding to meet its basic running costs.
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