(by Beth and Sarah Joy) Our day started with a lovely cooked breakfast, so we were fully fuelled and ready for what we were sure would be an emotional morning as we were heading to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. What an overwhelming experience, and for those of us who …
Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College in Mityana, Uganda has been up and running for almost 1 complete academic year now, and all is going very well. The college is pioneering some new ways of learning, particularly by Ugandan standards, utilising a Whole Brain Approach to teaching and learning, and …
A picture says a thousand words – so they say. Therefore, apart from this brief introduction to the following photos, words won’t feature, and the images can do all the talking. The Voice School Trust is CRED’s Tanzanian partner, based in Usa River township in Arusha District. As well as …
Spurgeons Academy, which is part of Spurgeons Childcare Kenya, is a partner of CRED Foundation located in the Kibera informal settlement of Nairobi, Kenya. It’s managing director is Kenyanito Dudi, and over the years many CRED Teams have visited the school to deliver educational activity weeks, and be life-transformingly inspired …
Makeda, is a nine years old girl who lives in Ethiopia, in a mid-size town 30km from Addis Ababa. She was born with cerebral palsy but despite this she attended school for a year and half, carried there on her mother’s back every week day, morning and afternoon. Unfortunately, when …
‘I am now a qualified teacher!. How does it feel???? Excellent. I have been teaching for the last ten years but I can now say I know what I’m doing and have found my calling. I have joined up the force of lifelong learning and love being back at Stepping …
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 …
