December is time for the Christmas Party at Good Neighbours in Theta. It is also a chance to get the El Shaddai Primary School buildings up to standard. Thanks to an amazing gift from a UK charity called Better Life Africa which Grassroots was given for the exclusive use of improving El Shaddai School’s buildings […]
Theta Christmas Party
December is time for the Christmas Party at Good Neighbours in Theta. George says this was an amazing event last year and so it is becoming annual – and gladly people gave Grassroots donations specifically fund it again. He says that he always remembers these kinds of events from his childhood because they were the […]
Rev Kenneth Mwaitolage
In honour of the Rev Kenneth Mwaitolage who went to be with the Lord on Tuesday 16 December 2014. Many years ago he told me a story from his early ministry as a pastor of a small church in Mbeya, Tanzania. He had been struck by James 1v27, the verse in the Bible that says […]
Uniform distribution by Grassroots Tanzania
The Grassroots team in Tanzania distributed uniforms to the sponsored children today. Here are pictures of the children coming and receiving their kit in Swaya and Pambogo. At the moment Grassroots sponsors over 2300 children in 10 locations around Mbeya. 160 primary children and about 80 secondary students have no sponsor at the moment! […]
Two houses in Romania – families settled in time for winter
Two emails and photos from Iacob: Here is some pictures from Viile Tecii and a small video clip with family singing. The project was completed. In the last week of november they was moved into the new house. They are extremely happy and very grateful. When you told me that you can finance this […]
The house that fell with one touch – REBUILT!
These are the pictures that Iacob sent today of the house that fell down: Here is pictures from Bistrita, Barte family. The construction had to be greater than our model because there is a minimum size for houses in the town (it was the same like this in Viisoara if you remember). Our partners for […]
You Spoil us Madame Sharoni – Sunday/Monday Tanzania 2014
You Spoil us Madame Sharoni So maybe one last entry for those of you who’ve only experienced the Mbeya-Dar leg of the trip by bus. Yesterday started with a lie-in. Breakfast at 8:00, bags packed and out of the rooms by 9:30. Church a repeat of last week, only this time a very entertaining […]
One Last Interview – Saturday Tanzania 2014
I cried today. Being brought up in Africa, I grew accustomed and somewhat impervious to the suffering and poverty around me. Interviewing children who have lost one or both of their parents, who in some cases have AIDs, who have such immense hardships and challenges to face in their lives, is sad, but the callouses […]
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