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Author Archives: Helen Harrison
Bishop officially opens Vocational College in Uganda
The Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College was the location of great celebrations recently when the Bishop of Mityana visited in order to carry out an official opening and blessing ceremony The Bishop, alongside Rev Tim Hall from the UK, unveiled a plaque at the college to mark the auspicious …
Spurgeons Academy – personal stories 3 – Erick
Erick is the headteacher at Spurgeons Academy. He started his role there in April 2019, having previously gained specialist knowledge in working with children from dysfunctional backgrounds and additional needs. His subject area is Maths, so he keeps his hand in by teaching that for grades 7 and 8. As …
Kampala School has a field trip to Nkuru Vocational College
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 and the Stepping Stones school – Malawi
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 …
TVST and the quest for water
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 …
Mattresses to the prison
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 …
Spurgeons Academy – personal story 2 – Faith, age 13
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 …
Spurgeons Academy – personal story 1 – Dan
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 by name, but not had a very merry life.
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 …