After Good Neighbours church in Theta, Kenya. Every child gets a bowl of high and balanced nutrition porridge! They are hungry!
Chennai in 2023
At last … we made it to Chennai! It had been 3 long years. Lockdowns and quarantine rules were the start of the delays, but then the Indian government made it very hard for UK citizens to get visas. But, at last, we were able to get tickets and go and meet our friends. There […]
Almost finished – Grassroots UK team in Tanzania 2019
We have almost finished our time in Tanzania. Interviews continue for another day. We started the week with 2500 needing to be done at the end of Friday we have 389 left to do. What a privilege it is to hear the stories of so many families. We have laughed and cried together. There are […]
The best team …. in Tanzania!
Team day in Tanzania. Always good to join together to talk, pray and eat together. So many new things happening here at the moment… Great T-Shirts too!
Annual visit to Good Neighbours & Watu wa Maana Street Children Centre – Grassroots Partners in Kenya
These first pictures are from the Good Neighbours project in Theta – a very poor community North of Nairobi. Good Neighbours is both the church and the Grassroots Partner organisation that runs the child sponsorship scheme in the community. They also run Judah Excellence Primary School where many of the children learn. Each morning, during […]
Grassroots team of volunteers visiting sponsored children in Chennai
We have arrived in Chennai and it has been a full on day. After not sleeping for over 36 hours tiredness is beginning to set in. We had a fab time meeting people in the community and praying with them. The homes in the slum are very small just one room no bigger then box […]
TANZANIA 2018… meeting sponsored children, opening a new centre, dust, joy, wow!
Everyday this week we are interviewing sponsored children in the 16 locations around the Mbeya region of Tanzania. By the end of the week we hope to have interviewed over 2500 children. Although the questions we ask each one are the same everywhere we go, the locations are very different. Some are very remote with […]
In Tanzania – new Home Building Project
We have just started a new venture in Tanzania. The housing stock some of the families live in is very poor. Some of these are child led families, disabled people or children being looked after by elderly grandparents. So they often struggle to find the rent and and end up moving from rented house to […]