Odette and the chickens

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…

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Titus and Gertrude

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…

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Clean water and buffalo milk

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…

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