In May, work began on writing a 12-week course for prisoners at Nkhata Bay prison, Malawi, where about 180 men are housed. The course, which is linked to the wider programme of projects overseen by Butterfly Space, set out to deliver Bible teaching and life skills training. In September, a…
Experience of Volunteers We – Anna, Ellie, Molly, and Libby – are English volunteers through Bristol Volunteers for Development Abroad (BVDA) who have come to Nepal to work with our partner PSD with the aim of making a sustainable difference in a rural community in the Baglung district. We arrived…
Last time I (Helen) was here at the college was March 2022. At that time, the fuel station had just opened along with the beginnings of a hardware store for the locals. Now I’m back, and it’s great to see further progress on this part of the college complex The…
Kids Joy nursery is a Ugandan registered nursery school set in the grounds of Nkuru Vocational College. Across the three classes it has 62 pupils age 3yrs through to 6yrs. The joy of the children at Kids Joy nursery is so evident, whether they are singing, writing, on break-time, or…
The phenomenon of street children is a world problem and over tens of millions of street children are found across the world. Rwanda considers street children as a category of children in need of special protection. It also considers street children as one of the categories of vulnerable children, with…
Esther came to Uganda in 2017 due to the conflict in South Sudan. She remembers the exact night that the rebels came and attacked her village. It was that terrifying night that 5 of her brothers were killed. She was beaten, raped and left to die. “I was in terrible…
I Live Again Uganda is one of CRED’s partners in Uganda, and is located in the north of the country. It was founded by Benson Ocen and his wife Ruth, to provide a source of trauma counselling to the many traumatised victims of the war with the Lords Resistance Army…
Spurgeons Academy doesn’t just feed the mind through provision of great education. No, it also feeds the body through provision of breakfast and lunch for all the children who attend the school. And as research has shown, food in the body allows the brain to work better, and so the…
GNPDR, our CRED Partner in Rwanda, have recently been able to restart their outreach programme to children living on the streets of Kigali. The outreach programme had been forced to stop during the pandemic, and then had struggled to get restarted, following the sad death of Theoneste, who had been…
AHISDO has secured sponsorship for 4 (1 Male & 3 Females) grandparents who are living in poverty without family support. Through their sponsorship they receive a variety of basic items including food items (Pasta, wheat flour, sugar and table salt), sanitary materials including COVID -19 protective materials (body soap, cloth…
