CRED Foundation is delighted to announce that we have a new Partner: The Voice School Trust in Tanzania. The Voice School Trust (TVST) is a school near Arusha that was founded in January 2013 by Daniel Mpanduzi. Daniel’s desire has always been to build a society in which no one…
Spurgeons update, September 2017: There has been much discussion and negotiation recently with the national train authorities and the Kenyan government regarding future options for Spurgeons Academy relating to buildings and associated space. This is due to the impact of the expanded train line that has cut through the Spurgeons…
Solar phone charging – a good news story from Acholi Over the past few years I have had the privilege of visiting with, and supporting, the Lubanga Ber group in Acholi Quarters, and seeing them grow from a disparate, surviving, not very hope-filled group to the empowered, visionary, cohesive group…
Betty – mother, wife, and Ugandan small-scale gold miner. And yesterday she told me how her life has changed for the better over the past few months, thanks to wonderful piece of kit called a Gold Kacha. Betty’s role within the gold mining process was to do the sluicing of…
A team from the LeAf Academy in Bournemouth recently visited our Malawian CRED Partner, Butterfly Space, and spent two weeks carrying out a range of practical activities to enhance the work that Butterfly does week in week out in a rural area of this impoverished country. Butterfly Space is situated…
One of the projects that our partner John Njendahayo is running in Uganda, is the development of a biogas farm. The ultimate aim is for it to produce biogas from animal manure, that can be compressed into cylinders and made available to people as cooking fuel. In so doing they will…
In our final full day of the trip, we got to experience multiple unique parts of Bulgarian culture. From 10:00 to 12:00 we were given free time to explore Stara Zagora, and at lunch we met in the park to eat. After this, we went to “The Old Cellar”, an…
Today was a strenuous day, which included engaging in physical activities during the middle of the day where the temperature peaked. My group in particular was especially arduous as our activities included capture the flag and races, the Bulgarians did all that we asked without breaking a sweat, this however…
Day No.5 Today, we have experienced the headache of trying to look after children. I can honestly say I don’t think that my brain is going to recover for quite a while, although most of the children were well behaved (There were some loud ones but never mind). Both classes…
We started off the day with some eggs for breakfast and soon after headed out to the International Youth Centre in Stara Zagora. The sun was beaming down on us, making the journey to the centre very tiring and exhausting. However, when we got…
