First thing required is a spot of orientation on best practice for filling the forms which contain something like 50 data fields. There’s lots of information to gather from each child, and it needs to be documented accurately. Once briefed, we pile in to a combination of bench-seated SUV and a pick up truck for […]
Arrived to a lovely welcome in Mbeya
An incredibly long journey. We got to at Gatwick Airport on Thursday at 7am. We have finally arrived in MBEYA, Tanzania at 8pm Friday evening. We have hardly stopped. On arriving the local team welcomed us and we are now fed and watered and tucked up in bed. Everyone is well but very tired. Tomorrow […]
Team on the way to Mbeya
Morning everyone. Just a quick blog to say the team that is going to Mbeya to interview 2400+ children and share with our Tanzania friends is half way there. They left the UK on Thursday morning and travelled via Istanbul to Dar-es-Salaam. This morning they sent a message that everyone had arrived safely and the […]
PO Box randomly cancelled by Royal Mail
If you have posted a letter to Grassroots addressing it to a PO Box then you need to know that we will not have received it. We started the PO Box with Royal Mail in December 2012 and thought it was working fine until one of our supporters contacted us asking why we hadn't paid […]
News about the Cyclone’s impact
Early this morning, having heard about the Cyclone in the Indian Ocean, we sent a message to Kevin Kamaraj in Chennai as follows: "Dear Kevin, We have been praying for you and others on the East coast of India overnight. It looks as if Chennai has been spared the full force of the cyclone. Are […]
Romania building team – today’s photos
“… does not have any toys.”
‘… does not have any toys.’ This has been a sentence written a lot as we have been inputting the children’s details ready to send out sponsorship packs. It’s amazing to see how children improvise: dusty ground becomes an art pad; a corn husk becomes a doll; a used battery becomes the trunk of a […]
Food: Chennai – January 2013
Whew… we have just finished feeding the 200+ children who come to the homework club each day in Chennai. The club concludes each evening with a good size meal. The children sit in rows and their stainless steel bowls and cups are filled and their empty tummies satisfied. Living in the slum in cramped conditions […]