Today the interview team and the building team merged. The children who will be living in the new home being built by the team were taken onto the Grassroots sponsorship scheme. The children are now more than excited about their new home and sponsorship provides them with the school things they are lacking to help […]
Visiting the Children you Sponsor in Romania
Sharon and Ruth are in Romania this week visiting all the children sponsored via Grassroots. This involves driving long distances to their homes which are often in quite remote settings. The scenery is stunning. Building stability and value into a child’s life takes time. It has been wonderful to meet children for the first time […]
Building a Home in Romania this week
This is the place this family lived in before… then they knocked it down and started to prepare the site … and the family started living in a shelter until the build could be done… then the UK team members set off from Luton airport to join the Romanian team members… on […]
Day 7 in Tanzania – Freddie & Adam tell of their experiences with Grassroots
Evening all, Freddie and Adam here on the decks, hello to all the fans (our families) Adam: This morning was no different with the boys waking up to an overwhelming amount of dew on the outside of the tents, this made exiting the tent an undesirable activity often ending in disaster with wet clothes before […]
Helping flood victims in Mbeya
There have been extraordinary storms in the Mbeya area this week and some of our friends homes have been badly damaged by flooding. The Grassroots Tanzania team have found them temporary accommodation but Sharon is having meetings today to discuss what help we can give to help them put their lives back together. This was […]
Almost finished – Latest new home in Romania
Back in January a house burnt down in Silivasu, Romania. Iacob Murza, who works with us to try to help the most needy families in Romania to have adequate homes, started working on fund raising to so he could get the family a new home. They are a poor family with 4 children. They were […]
Home finished just in time for birth – Romania Dec 2016
A message from Iacob Murza who directs the work of building homes for those desperately in need in the Bistrita region of Romania. Grassroots donors provide the majority of the funds (approximately £5000 of UK funds per house) and then Iacob organises local Christians and churches to be involved as well. All the work is […]
Summer means another home in Romania!
Message from Iacob in Romania about the latest home Grassroots has funded for a very poor family: “Here are some pictures from the house in Saanmihai as well as from the celebration. Father of the family used to play violin in the church. There was also friends of family and neighbours. An evangelistic message was […]