Young people from Bishop Luffa school (Chichester) are in Tanzania this week serving with and learning from the Grassroots team. Delivering chickens to vulnerable families, painting the Grassroots kitchen inside and out, learning to dance the Tanzanian way, cooking/serving/cleaning the pots for the weekly feeding programmes, and Mr Goldsmith is helping them make wood frame […]
Films of Day of Celebration honouring Sharon Anson
A big THANK YOU to all of you who have sent message and cards to Hugo and Sharon’s family. There have been so many! Thank you in particular to so many who came yesterday (Tuesday 26th May) to the service celebrating Sharon’s life and the came on to the party where a number of people […]
Tanzania Sponsored Children re-enrolled for another year
A fantastic team of volunteers gathering in Mbeya Tanzania (earlier in October) to help Grassroots re-register all the 2300+ sponsored children. 4 came from the UK, but all the rest of the team was Tanzanian. It was a fantastic week, visiting the 21 Grassroots sponsorship locations, meeting every child with their family, asking them how […]
Very hungry children in Zambia
Food for hungry children is an essential part of what Grassroots does in Zambia. The 5 local churches work with KEVTC and some funding from Grassroots to provide regular meals for the children in the areas. Food gives children energy, intelligence, life, joy and community. After every interview sessions the church puts on a meal […]
UK students cooking for feeding programme – Grassroots Tanzania
The Grassroots feeding programme for all the sponsored children based in Airport Stable church (Mbeya, Tanzania) with new cooks from the Bishop Luffa School (UK) students! Every sponsored children can have at least one nutritional meal at one of the 21 Grassroots locations each week. It only cost a £42 a year (£3.50 per month) […]
Gathering Fresh Milk – Bishop Luffa School in Tanzania
Distributing uniform to sponsored children in Tanzania
This week, the team in Tanzania are giving out school uniform to the sponsored children. They are going to each of the 19 locations. At each location the sponsored children based there all turn up with their carers. The new school year starts in January. It is a time of great excitement. The uniform is […]
Mark’s Diary of a Grassroots trip to Tanzania – Oct 2024
So….having missed our connecting flight to Mbeya due to delays on both Kenya Airways flights we had an unscheduled ‘overnight’ stop in Dar. Had to get up at 2.30am for the 4.30am coach to Mbeya…after 16 hours on the rollercoacher we finally arrived at the Karibuni Centre where we be staying for our time here. […]
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