Our lovely friend and CRED Partner Janaki Menni was in the UK for 4 weeks during September / October and spent her time visiting friends old and new, and speaking at a large and varied number of events. She shared the story of Faith In Action Ministries, and the different…
Pastor Edmond is a CRED partner who lives and works on the Thai Burma border. He is from one of the minority groups in Burma, and he has devoted his life to supporting people from this group on both sides of the border who fled persecution during the oppressive Burmese…
Stepping Stones School is a primary school being set up by Alice Leaper to provide high-quality education to local children in Nkhata Bay, an area of Malawi that has no other equivalent educational opportunities. It is due to open in September 2016 with an intake of 4 year groups –…
Today was our last day of teaching at Bwelero School, it was a day filled with mixed emotions, because, despite the fun the children were having it was very sad to be leaving them. In the morning “The advanced party” set off early with Miss Bournon to the school. We…
We woke up to a dark and gloomy Malawi. We enjoyed a lovely breakfast of rice porridge (a traditional Malawi food) accompanied by monkeys thundering on the roof and playing in the trees. Some of us (“the advanced party” in Miss Bournon’s words) left at 7.45 because of our slow…
In the morning at 6am, a few of us went down to the lake to have a morning sunrise swim. Izzie, Phoebe, Sophia, Anna, Abi and Goooooldieeeeeeeeee went diving in the clear blue lake. The morning was really clear and so we could see the outline of Mozambique. Once we…
Lessons began at 9am as usual this morning, with standard 1 and 2 (younger children) being the recipients of the girls’ planning until 10:30, the older pupils from 11am to 1pm. The girls had really taken on board feedback from the local teachers, and from our staff the night before,…
Another day of teaching by the team at Bwelero school and what a good day it was. Everyone upped their game, many stepping out of their comfort zones to do so, and the results were some really good lessons. Jasneev delivering her Geography lesson, Phoebe and Sophia R leading on…
Hello everyone. Another update from team Malawi here. Sorry for lack of photos, Internet is really struggling here so trying to find enough bandwidth for photos is hard. But, delighted to say that the cases and resources have all turned up except one which we are assured is on its…
In this season of graduations, when students are finishing their academic year and preparing to move on to the next stage of studies, or in some cases finish with the formal education system for the foreseeable, we thought you might like to see a couple of photos of Graduation ceremonies…
