Students from Acorn International School in Kampala visited the Nkuru Vocational and Business College recently to learn more about green technologies and sustainability. The 20 students, who are all in year 9 at school, and two teachers, came to the college to find out more about biogas which is on …
Alice is one of those people who everyone is inspired by. Me included. She’s from Bristol, but post university decided to do that travelling thing, ended up in Malawi, fell in love, and stayed. The Malawian part of her life has a number of twists and turns, but throughout it …
The Voice School Trust is aiming at drilling a borehole water supply in order to address the access problem of clean water for The Voice Secondary School. The School started early in January 2013, but ever since they have been trying to solve the problem of how to reliably and …
1,000 Mercy Mattresses were recently distributed to prisoners in 4 of the Rwandan prisons that GNPDR works in. Made by genocide victims, who are given employment as part of this project, the mattresses have a Biblical message of hope and forgiveness incorporated into the mattress material, so enabling the message …
Faith is currently in grade 7 and when she has completed G8 at Spurgeons, she wants to go to high school and then college to train to be a journalist. Faith really likes coming to school at Spurgeons because she gets a good quality education and enjoys the different activities …
Dan graduated from Spurgeons Academy in 2012 then went to high school 2013-16. He attended Miramar International College to study agribusiness for 1 year and is currently at PC Kinyanjui Technical Institute in his second year doing a 4-year course in automotive engineering. Spurgeons CCK has paid Dan’s school fees …
Merry was brought to the Chisomo Shelter by Lusaka Social Workers who found her living on the streets, where she was living a very vulnerable and precarious existence. No-one knows her exact age but the staff at Chisomo reckon she must be between 13 and 15 years. Aaron, from Chisomo …
The students of Hopeful Haven day care in Acholi are rejoicing in the donation of funds from Welford school in UK which has enabled them to start receiving a cup of porridge each day. This welcome food means that they are much more ready to learn and make the most …
Helen: Camping, dancing, drumming, campfire, teaching more little children, parachute games, stories round the campfire……and now packing ready to fly home tomorrow. See you soon everyone and thank you for being such amazing supporters of this wonderful team. Treat them gently on their return – they’ve all got lots going …
After a long, challenging, but most importantly rewarding week, we decided that the team had earned a well deserved lie in – a whole extra hour in bed! This morning was spent with 4th Mercy Scout group who listened intently to Del’s story about the origin of scouts and how …
