International Women’s Day is all about acknowledging and celebrating women, and the key roles that they play in helping make the world go round. From frontline roles in human rights, politics, science, health-care, education, religion, research, leadership etc, to the more hidden roles that are rarely noted and yet are…
Full Proof is the name of the programme run by the Chisomo team in Zambia to support vulnerable mothers. Headed up by Josephine Chilunjika, the programme offers a range of activities including parenting skills, peer support, and activities to help develop income generating skills. During the CV-19 pandemic, the women…
The start of 2021 meant that all children at Spurgeons were finally allowed to return to school, along with the rest of Kenyan students. Before that, only the children who were taking school leaving exams were able to attend classes, and even that was after 8 months of no schooling…
The Christmas and New Year holiday period is a time for celebrations, gathering with loved ones (provided there is no lockdown to get in the way), and sharing special meals together. If you live on the streets however, the chances of such happy times aren’t always so easy to come…
For the children at Spurgeons Academy in Kibera slum in Kenya, when schools closed in March 2020 due to the coronavirus lockdown, that was the end of access to education for them for that year. Homeschooling just isn’t an option when your home is 3m x 3m, housing an average…
Welcome to the world of plastic bottle upcycling, as spearheaded by CRED Partner PSD-Nepal. Based in some of the main trekking areas of Nepal, the volume of waste plastic, tin and glass bottles produced by the tourist industry is ruining the environment at an alarming rate, and PSD have decided…
Chisomo Ministries is based in Lusaka, Zambia, and provides support for children who are living on the streets. Headed up by the founders, Aaron and Josephine Chilunjika, the staff at Chisomo run a drop-in project for the children, so that they have somewhere safe to come to during the day.…
2020 might have been a very tough year for most, but that doesn’t mean that the programmes run by the CRED Partners have all stopped. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ellilta-Women at Risk (EWAR) have managed to keep on supporting the ladies who were enrolled on the rehabilitation programme at the…
It’s been a bit of a year hasn’t it! This time last year none of us had any idea quite how 2020 was going to turn out, which is probably just as well! But, we’ve come through it, and there are signs of hope on the horizon 🙂 Not surprisingly…
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