The team from Bishop Luffa School (Chichester) arrived in Mbeya this morning and have already been working hard. Due to IT limitations Sharon & Ruth (Grassroots staff in Mbeya) have been posting all the days photos on facebook. You can see them at https://www.facebook.com/TheGrassrootsTrust and this will be where the most up to date information […]
St Margaret’s with Grassroots in Mbeya
A fantastic group of girls from St Margaret’s Bushey have been in Mbeya, Tanzania this last week. They have been helping in so many ways. Below are a few of the facebook posts and photos from the trip. They finish with Grassroots tomorrow and will go trekking for a few days. Friday morning another group […]
“More Food Please” – Kenya 2014
Today we went shopping. We bought matresses and chickens as gifts from sponsors for the families of their sponsored childrem. We also ordered goats – a firm favourite here in Theta. We then took these gifts to the homes of those they had been sent to. It was great to meet people in their home […]
Kenya Team’s first visit to Theta
So yesterday was all about visiting Watu wa Maana and interviewing all the children. Today we headed along the mud tracks to Theta – about an hour on very dodgy roads to an area of housing near the river served by dusty roads. Then we turned the corner to where the Good Neighbours church building […]
Report from latest trip to Romania to review all past home builds
Chris and Angela Izzard, Ruth Buckett, Liz Shirley … all travelled to Romania 12-16 April 2014 We visited 8 past projects and 2 new projects which will be built in September by 2 teams from the U.K. The first day we were there was Sunday morning, so we went to Iacob’s Pentecostal church in Bistrista. […]
Extreme experiences in Chennai
Another moving set of reflections on the experience of being in Chennai from Jan Potter: ———— We have been interviewing every day all morning and afternoon. The children have started arriving for after school club as we were finishing. The heat has been hard, even with fans going and windows open. Yesterday it was even […]
“Jesus Feeding his Children” – Chennai 2014
Laurence Potter is one of the team in Chennai visiting the SKM church and child sponsorship project with Grassroots. Andy asked him to write up his impressions and experiences. So here they are! —– The first time we visited the after-school club was a revelation. At about five o’clock, children began to swarm up the […]
Amazing people doing Amazing things
Education is an integral part of this sponsorship programme. The people we are helping live in the slum where there is very little sanitation or space. So many children see a good education as their way out of the cycle of life as that might enable a better job which in turn might mean they […]