So the countdown has begun for Oak Academy to Malawi 2019! Tuesday was a busy day of packing suitcases full of resources and all things we have been donated from our wonderful friends and family ready for the trip of a lifetime! We got our first team photo; and cannot…
All schools need teachers to teach, and all school need pupils to learn, but if a school doesn’t have support staff in place as well, then it tends to be a lesser school as a result. In Nkhata Bay, Malawi, the Stepping Stones school, founded by Alice Leaper of Butterfly…
Wendy says that she is 11 years old, at least that’s what her mother reckons, although she’s not totally sure, and she certainly doesn’t know when Wendy’s birthday is. She can’t ask her dad – he died when she was very young, so she has been brought up by her…
Thirteen years ago, when Ramya was just two years old, her parents were killed in a terrorist attack. They were innocent bystanders who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, but as a result Ramya and her brother ended up as orphans. None of the aunts or uncles…
Recent news from FIAM, our CRED Partner in India, spoke of the incredible improvements to life that came about as a result of sinking a borehole in a remote village. Before the borehole, the villagers only had access to contaminated water which often left them sick with fevers and muscle…
When you live in a slum, and your house is about as tiny and basic as they come, built right up next to a ‘river’ that has no floodplain to overflow into, and the house is made of sticks and mud with a tin sheet for a roof……. For the…
Chisomo Shelter for Street Children is based in Lusaka, Zambia and has been in existence since 1993; it was registered as a Zambian non-profit organisation in 1997. Since that time, Chisomo, which means Grace when translated into English, has been providing much needed services for children who find themselves living…
Nkuru Business and Vocational Training College, set up by CRED Partner John Njendahayo, opened its doors to prospective students and parents as well as local residents recently. There was much interest in the range of course available for students age 18 and up, as well as for the children who…
One of the programmes that GNPDR has been running for a couple of years now is the Mercy Mattress project, and it continues to go from strength to strength. At the heart of the project is reconciliation between genocide victims and perpertrators, and this comes about through the genocide victims…
Ellilta (previously known as Women-At-Risk) in Ethiopia have three categories of programs that they run – rehabilitation for the women wishing to exit prostitution, outreach and intervention to those who are vulnerable and at risk of entering prostitution (including many children of the programs) and prevention, where they seek to…
