The students of Hopeful Haven day care in Acholi are rejoicing in the donation of funds from Welford school in UK which has enabled them to start receiving a cup of porridge each day. This welcome food means that they are much more ready to learn and make the most…
Odette Murekatete is the chairlady of the Nyamata Widows Hope Project. The project is one of the programmes run by GNPDR, and is the outcome of a partnership that started several years ago, as GNPDR pursued their ‘post-genocide reconciliation’ mandate. To start with the Hope Project focussed on bringing widows…
Stepping Stones International Primary School is the dreamchild of Alice Leaper, who heads up Butterfly Space in Nkhata Bay, Malawi. Set up to provide high quality education for local children, it offers a few subsidised places in each year to those who are living in rural poverty, and as a…
The Nkuru Vocational Training College, which is run by CRED Partner John Njendahayo in rural Mityana, now has 24 students age 3 – 7 studying on its campus, as a result of the Kids Joy nursery school becoming fully open in its own purpose-built facilites. The children currently learn under…
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…
