Huge congratulations to some of the students at St Joseph School in Nallajeerla, India, which is supported by CRED Partner FIAM. They recently got the results of the national exams taken by all grade 10 students across the country. The following is the news that Janaki sent through, which underlines…
Great news for the nursery school children in the Nkhata Bay area of Malawi. The Stepping Stones / Butterfly Space team have just opened a new nursery school – Majika nursery in Chisombe village near Nkhata Bay. This makes six functioning nursery schools in the Butterfly group, and at each…
Hope has lived all of her life in Acholi Quarters with her mum, her two biological brothers, and variable foster siblings as her mum has taken in different children over the years when their family circumstances broke down. Her home has always been some variation on a 3m square room,…
IDAK has been supporting Wasare primary and junior secondary school for a year now, running a pilot feeding programme for all the students. We’ve reported on the success of this in previous blogs, including how it enables Kindergarten pupils to attend school for a whole day, and also how it…
Dieu Don is a 14-year-old boy who had lived on the streets of Kigali in Rwanda for two years due to family conflict and violence. One day, he met the street outreach team from GNPDR and accepted counseling from them. This led to him asking GNPDR if they could help…
(written by Bishnu Bhatta, PSD Nepal) In the busy corners of Kathmandu and surrounding areas, many families earn their living by sorting and collecting waste. Among them are bright, curious children whose futures were once overshadowed by poverty and social stigma. Through the generous support of The Unforgotten Fund, PSD…
St Joseph’s school in Nallajeerla was set up in 2008 by Janaki Menni, her wonderful father (now sadly died), and others within the FIAM team at the time. Over the years that I (Helen) have known it, the school has grown impressively from a small-ish facility comprising just one class…
CRED and its supporters have been inputting to Stepping Stones primary school in rural Malawi for quite some years now. Here are a few photos just to give you an insight into all that is involved in a school day.
by Ella Potter, age 15, who visited Uganda with her dad Dan I tried to just stretch my leg out from under myself and the group of small children around me looked at me wide-eyed, as if worried I was about to leave them. It felt strange to be getting…
At Wasare school in rural Kenya, CRED Partner IDAK Foundation has supported the implementation of a feeding programme, such that all the children are able to get a hot meal in the middle of each day. For some students, this meal is the difference between being able to complete a…
