The final week of May 2018 saw our Rwandan partner GNPDR, headed by Pius Nyakayiro, co-hosting an International Conference on Human Rights and Prison Reform in Kigali alongside NGO International CURE. The conference explored reconciliation, restorative justice practices, alternatives to imprisonment, and other issues in the criminal justice context, while …
June 4th 2018 – first day back of the new term, and not all the students had classes, but 11 were there of the 15 registered, and 4 of the staff i.e. the ones who had lessons to teach that day! Also open for the first college day was ‘Sophie’s …
There’s a lot of good stuff going on in the Andhra Pradesh region at the moment with our wonderful partner Janaki, and FIAM, the organisation that she heads up. The orphans that they support continue to be cared for by foster families, the leprosy community that they give advocacy and …
This week has been all about connecting professionals, and having the joy of sitting back and watching the resultant peer to peer learning and skills development take place. Liz and Elizabeth are both highly skilled professionals counselors / psychotherapists working with a range of clients in the UK, both privately …
About 4 or 5 years ago, in a coffee shop in Southsea, Simon Paylor and myself dreamt about being able to bring together all the CRED Partners in one place, so that they could share with each other, inspire each other, learn from each other, and build network and relationships. …
The children at the GNPDR Catch Up school finally have water on tap, thanks to the generosity of some UK donors who raised enough money for a rainwater harvesting system to be set up. Until now there has been no reliable running water at, or near the school, and staff …
Saturday March 3rd 2018 will forever be an auspicious date in the life of Nkuru-Nziza Foundation, our CRED Foundation in Uganda, because it was the day that the first intake of students and their parents attended the Orientation Day, to mark the opening of the Nkuru Business and Vocational Training …
Daniel Mpanduzi, our Tanzanian CRED Partner, is one of 14 children – 9 girls and 5 boys. Within the family order he came roughly halfway and of the sisters 5 are older, and 4 younger. He grew up in the western part of Tanzania, near the shores of Lake Victoria, …
In February 2017, the first NNF Dragon’s Den competition was held in Bakijjulula, with a small CRED team acting as dragons. Open to all microfinance scheme members, it was an opportunity for individuals to pitch an idea to the ‘dragons’ and hope to come away with a pot of money …
Jane was one of the first people to receive a loan from the Missing Link Microfinance project when it launched in the summer of 2016, thanks to generous donations from CRED supporters. Based out of the house of John’s dad, in Bakijjulula near Mityana, where the Nkuru Vocational Training College …
