I Live Again Uganda (ILA) have recently been conducting a series of workshops in a rural Acholi community with a large group of Pastors and Ministry Leaders. The workshops have helped to equip the leaders to support their community members more effectively with regard to trauma counselling and mental health.…
Bishnu Bhatta, Director of PSD-Nepal, recently attended the Grand Challenge Annual meeting in Belgium where he gave a presentation about the work of PSD. Attendees at the meeting included representatives of the Bill Gates foundation, the Wellcome Trust, USAID, EU donors and many more, so it was a wonderful opportunity…
The following is a section of an email that was recently sent out to some key supporters of the work at Spurgeons Academy. It gives an insight into some of the issues that staff and students are grappling with as they approach the end of term. Spurgeons-specific issues The grade…
With food prices rising across the world, everyone is looking for ways to reduce their food costs. And that is the case in Acholi Quarters as much as anywhere else. You might think that growing your own crops in an urban shanty-town / informal settlement is unlikely, where the land…
In October, I (Helen) had the joy and privilege of spending an afternoon with some of the members of the Lubanga Ber group in Acholi Quarters, which essentially means catching up with good friends. But it was not just a time for chatting, but also a time for me running…
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…
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…
