The Voice School Trust is aiming at drilling a borehole water supply in order to address the access problem of clean water for The Voice Secondary School. The School started early in January 2013, but ever since they have been trying to solve the problem of how to reliably and…
1,000 Mercy Mattresses were recently distributed to prisoners in 4 of the Rwandan prisons that GNPDR works in. Made by genocide victims, who are given employment as part of this project, the mattresses have a Biblical message of hope and forgiveness incorporated into the mattress material, so enabling the message…
Faith is currently in grade 7 and when she has completed G8 at Spurgeons, she wants to go to high school and then college to train to be a journalist. Faith really likes coming to school at Spurgeons because she gets a good quality education and enjoys the different activities…
Dan graduated from Spurgeons Academy in 2012 then went to high school 2013-16. He attended Miramar International College to study agribusiness for 1 year and is currently at PC Kinyanjui Technical Institute in his second year doing a 4-year course in automotive engineering. Spurgeons CCK has paid Dan’s school fees…
Merry was brought to the Chisomo Shelter by Lusaka Social Workers who found her living on the streets, where she was living a very vulnerable and precarious existence. No-one knows her exact age but the staff at Chisomo reckon she must be between 13 and 15 years. Aaron, from Chisomo…
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…
