Huge congratulations to some of the students at St Joseph School in Nallajeerla, India, which is supported by CRED Partner FIAM. They recently got the results of the national exams taken by all grade 10 students across the country. The following is the news that Janaki sent through, which underlines…
written by Bishnu Bhatta, Director of PSD-Nepal In August 2025, PSD Nepal launched a community-based plantation initiative in the hills of Dolakha, planting 1,000 saplings with local families. The plantation focused mainly on Sichuan paper, walnut, Avacado, Lauthsalla (Himalayan Yew Fruits) and lemon trees, chosen for their long-term environmental and…
Written by Pius, director of GNPDR Street-connected children are often seen as a public security problem instead of children in need of protection, healing, and opportunity. In Rwanda, many children living on the streets are periodically chased by security people in plain clothes, rounded up, and taken to rehabilitation centers…
Great news for the nursery school children in the Nkhata Bay area of Malawi. The Stepping Stones / Butterfly Space team have just opened a new nursery school – Majika nursery in Chisombe village near Nkhata Bay. This makes six functioning nursery schools in the Butterfly group, and at each…
Hope has lived all of her life in Acholi Quarters with her mum, her two biological brothers, and variable foster siblings as her mum has taken in different children over the years when their family circumstances broke down. Her home has always been some variation on a 3m square room,…
On Wednesday 13th May, 9 of the 11 CRED partners gathered at central location in Nairobi to travel together to the Links Africa Hub in Embu district in the foothills of Mount Kenya for 3 days of fellowship, learning, building relationships, deepening friendships and journeying together. Those who were there…
By K Dudi, IDAK Foundation Carren Anyango is a woman whose quiet strength has anchored her through nearly five decades of life in Nairobi. At 82 years old, her story is a testament to unwavering resilience—a life lived on the front lines of Nairobi’s informal economy, marked by hard…
CRED partner FIAM have 3 main income generation programmes to help them move towards sustainability and away from total reliance on external donors. One of these is the goat project. Another is St Joseph’s school. And the third income generator that FIAM has set up is their compost business. A…
IDAK has been supporting Wasare primary and junior secondary school for a year now, running a pilot feeding programme for all the students. We’ve reported on the success of this in previous blogs, including how it enables Kindergarten pupils to attend school for a whole day, and also how it…
For the young people and children who have found themselves living on the streets in Lusaka, Zambia, the Chisomo Drop-In centre is a life line. It is a place of safety – a place where they can just sleep without fear of someone kicking them awake and forcing them to…
