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A day with the GNPDR street kids programme
Early November, Helen and Simon visited GNPDR in Rwanda and spent some time at their programmes. Here are some reflections of Helen following the visit. Today we spent the morning with a group of about 25 young people some of whom are living on the streets of Kigali, and some…
From sponsored kid to gym owner – an AHISDO story
Written by Helen AHISDO was one of Creds early Ethiopian partners, and a sister organisation to CBISDO It is a community based organisation in one of the poorer parts of Addis Ababa and for many years has been supporting elderly and child residents who are most in need through a…
Tree planting at Nkuru college
Tree Planting has been taking place on the land of 4 families whose children attend the Kids Joy nursery here at college. The trees were paid for by voluntary donation from each nursery child’s family, and the land for planting on was offered by the 4 families. The trees were…
Bristol Uni students visit PSD-Nepal
Experience of Volunteers We – Anna, Ellie, Molly, and Libby – are English volunteers through Bristol Volunteers for Development Abroad (BVDA) who have come to Nepal to work with our partner PSD with the aim of making a sustainable difference in a rural community in the Baglung district. We arrived…
Progress at the Nkuru college fuel station
Last time I (Helen) was here at the college was March 2022. At that time, the fuel station had just opened along with the beginnings of a hardware store for the locals. Now I’m back, and it’s great to see further progress on this part of the college complex The…
Cred blogs in photos – Kids Joy Nursery
Kids Joy nursery is a Ugandan registered nursery school set in the grounds of Nkuru Vocational College. Across the three classes it has 62 pupils age 3yrs through to 6yrs. The joy of the children at Kids Joy nursery is so evident, whether they are singing, writing, on break-time, or…
Talent search for women of Ellilta
Ellilta-Women at Risk started out with a focus on supporting women who wished to exit prostitution, and that is still a key focus of its work. Each year, approximately 120 women enrol on the rehabilitation course run by Ellilta. It takes 9-12 months in total, and there is a rolling…
Final Farewell – Malawi 2019
Hi All! Apologies for no blog in the last couple of days, we’ve had a busy couple of days with travelling and Safari! We all had a wonderful time on Safari and got to see Elephants, Rhino, Hippo and other animals in the Bush! It was an amazing experience had…
AfriDACA Final blog – including thoughts from everyone DACA (in alphabetical order by first name!)
Helen: Camping, dancing, drumming, campfire, teaching more little children, parachute games, stories round the campfire……and now packing ready to fly home tomorrow. See you soon everyone and thank you for being such amazing supporters of this wonderful team. Treat them gently on their return – they’ve all got lots going…