Links
If you would like to have your link added to our site please contact us.

(Association La Porte Ouverte is not responsible for the content of these sites,

all of which have an established connection with "Open Door")

Buddhist Hospice Trust: www.budhisthospice.org.uk
The Buddhist Hospice Trust provides compassionate care and spiritual support for seriously ill, dying or bereaved people, their families, friends and carers. The Trust is a voluntary and autonomous association of Buddhists from all traditions, open to ALL. The Trust promotes the practice of "Hospice in the Heart", personal openness to suffering, dying and death in the midst of life.
A UK-Registered Charity No 298859.
Shakti Association: andrevoyage@yahoo.fr
This French registered Association supports children and young people affected by Polio and Tuberculosis and who may be orphans, deaf, blind or mute in Pondichéry a former French province in the South East of India. The Association also founded and supports the Shiva Shakti Schiool for handicapped youngster to give them a basic education. Open Door supporters have donated money and many items of school equipment to this project.
Get Together: www.getogether-france.org
Based in the Deux Sevres and adjoining departments helps new residents integrate
Phoenix Rescue: www.phoenixasso.com
Animal rescue and welfare
Siobain duckworth is their local representative - siobain.duckworth@wanadoo.fr
Poitou Charentes Life: www.poitou-charentes-life.com
For free classifieds and information
Christies Tea Room, Gençay: www.chezchristies.com
Tea room, bookshop, home made cakes and handicrafts
This light and spacious shop is a comfortable, relaxing environment in which to browse the 3,000 or so books on the shelves, unwind with a decent cuppa, surf the internet and even find that perfect, handcrafted gift.
 
Andrew and T-Anne also collect used postage stamps for the RNIB, used spectacles for World Vision and jiffy bags for Open Door (They donate 10€ cents to Open Door for every Jiffy Bag they receive).

Counselling In France: www.counsellinginfrance.com
Therapists of all types offering help in English wherever you live in France

 

Befrienders Worldwide:   www.befrienders.org

They work worldwide to provide emotional support, and reduce suicide.  They listen to people who are in distress.  Befrienders Worldwide don't judge them or tell them what to do - they listen.