Spurgeons Academy has been a CRED partner for many years. Based in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, it takes children who are unable to afford to attend other primary schools, and has 80% single or double orphans. Recently the new school year started, and below are a few photos of…
Pictures are much better than words on this one! Comfort Primary School is based in Kigali, Rwanda, and was set up to provide access to education for children living on the streets. More recently it has transitioned to a mainstream school and the children who attend come from double parent…
Exam results published for the St Joseph’s final year students10th class is the final class for students at Indian schools before they go on to further education of some type, and it culminates in sitting the national school leavers exams. The results for these exams have just been published, and…
The Hopeful Haven community initiative is based in Acholi Quarters and is run by members of the Lubanga Ber co-operative, which CRED has been linked to for several years. Hopeful Haven provides informal educational opportunities for some of the children who are unable to attend mainstream school, because they can’t…
Here follows some information sent through by Bishnu, our partner in Nepal, about the work that PSD-Nepal are carrying out to help with promoting and developing community gardens, even where the only open space is on the roof! Community and School garden in Nepali context Nepal has been an agricultural…
Thanks to the tireless work of the staff and volunteers at Chisomo in Lusaka, Zambia, life isn’t forever hopeless for children who find themselves living on the streets of the city. This can be shown by the following two images. Both are of youngsters who, in September 2021 were living…
The following photos show for themselves just how happy the youngsters from Acholi Quarters have been to finally be able to return to school after almost 2 years of school closures in Uganda due to Covid. Whilst some schools provided online lessons, and some parents were able to afford private…
The demand for education is high in Malawi, especially for good quality education as can be found at Stepping Stones Int’l Primary School in Nkhata Bay. The school, which was founded by CRED Partner Alice Leaper of Butterfly Space, is so popular that plans are already underway to expand it…
In Zambia, the norm for secondary schooling is to go to a school that is away from where your home is and attend as a boarder. So, the start of a new term for secondary school students involves packing up the required belongings and travelling a distance. For the older…
When Uganda went into lockdown back at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, like so many countries, all of the schools and nurseries shut down. For some children, they were able to access on-line learning, but for the majority of children, and all nursery age children, education stopped.…
