Children can end up living on the streets for all sorts of reasons, most of them not of their own making. And whilst on the streets, life can feel pretty bleak. But thanks to the input from Chisomo, street children in Lusaka, Zambia, are getting access to new opportunities and…
Uganda is going through tough times at the moment with a surge in Covid cases forcing a nationwide lockdown. For some, the lockdown just means staying at home, working from home, doing school online, and only going out to get the bare essentials. But for all those who don’t have…
AHISDO is a community-based organisation that serves one of the poorest communities in Addis Ababa. It provides educational support packages to some of the neediest children, does ‘food on foot’ parcels for the housebound elderly, runs a weekday lunch club for the mobile elderly, hosts after-school homework clubs, and has…
This water tank is one of two above-ground water tanks that can be found at Nkuru Vocational Community College in rural Mityana district, Uganda. They are filled in part by water that is pumped up from a borehole owned by the college and situated about 600m down the hill. And…
For the community of Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, 2021 started with a mood of optimism. After the year 2020, when Covid-19 led to lockdowns, loss of employment for most, loss of income for many, the schools being shut, and the children subsequently having no access to feeding programmes, 2021…
We are all aware of just how awful the impact of Covid19 has been in India. Heartbreaking news reports of people dying on the way to hospital; of hospitals running out of beds, oxygen, medical staff; of a country completely overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of illness and death from…
I Live Again – Uganda (ILA) is a non-profit organisation birthed and based in the northern region of Uganda. Founded by Benson Ocen in the aftermath of the horrific war that ravaged the area in the 1980’s – 2006, it has four key strands that underpin all aspects of its…
There’s no particular story to this blog, just a selection of lovely photos taken in Acholi Quarters when Helen visited there last month. It was over a year ago that she was last in the community, so there was a lot of catching up to do!
Nkuru Business and Vocational Community College is an incredible place in so many ways. Set in the heart of rural Mityana in Uganda, the students can live and learn in a beautiful environment, looking out over rolling hills of tea plantations and rainforest, and breathing in pollution free air. It…
When CRED responded to the request from ILA for funds to purchase sanitation products during the Covid lockdown period, no-one had a full realisation of quite how broad the impact of that soap would be. The plan was to use the distribution of the soap, plus face masks and hand…
