Helweltrust.co.uk
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Helwel Homepage
Description
The Helwel Trust was founded in 1976 by Doctors Anthony and Maggie Barker and is a Registered Charity. The word Helwel is synonymous with the Zululand Churches Health and Welfare Association, an organisation with its roots in the early 1960s in the historic area of Natal, South Africa, where the Zulu Nation prospered in the 18th and 19th centuries. Helwel was created to serve the under privileged people of that region by the Christian Churches and Hospitals. The Drs Barker were at that time running the Charles Johnson Memorial Hospital at Nqutu and were instrumental in the creation of Helwel.
When they returned to the UK in 1976, Helwel Trust was formed to provide ongoing financial support for the work in the area now known as KwaZulu Natal. It is also concerned to raise awareness of the many social and medical problems that are endemic there. Until July 2004, Helwel Trust channelled most, but not all, of its assistance through the Zisizeni Association for Development, which was the name adopted by the Zululand Churches Health and Welfare Association in 1997.
With the failure of Zisizeni Association for Development in September 2004, Helwel Trust will be using other organisations to fulfill the Trust's objectives.
