Our friends in Theta, Kenya are delivering more emergency food parcels (along with toothbrushes and toothpaste) to every family with children sponsored by Grassroots supporters. George and the Good Neighbours team have been working hard to make sure every sponsored child has what they need throughout the waves of COVID that have hit Kenya. Grassroots […]
India Covid Crisis – Chennai next?
We wrote to all the people who sponsor children in Chennai through Grassroots to update them on what is happening in the midst of the latest surge in Covid-19 cases across India. You can open the letter here.
Please Help us in Zambia – Sponsor a Child for £4.25 per month
How have things been in Zambia in 2020? In March 2020, when European countries was starting to have large increases in the COVID19 pandemic, the media coverage meant that Zambia and much of Africa decided to follow their lead in locking down hard, closing schools and teaching everyone how not to pass on the infection. […]
A Christmas Thank You message from Wanjiru at Watu wa Maana Street Children’s Centre – just outside Nairobi
Reflections on the many changes to Watu wa Maana’s ways of working during 2020 In March, the COVID19 pandemic took a grip in Europe and there was great concern about what would happen when it spread to Africa. The Kenyan government, like most others on the continent, closed all schools and immediately introduced many other […]
Watu wa Maana – Street Kids being supported in the Community
During COVID19 Watu wa Maana Street Children’s centre (Ruiru, Kenya) has kept a few of the most vulnerable children as residents and has also placed some children into relatives’ homes that are considered safe. The families come regularly to received large parcels of food and provisions, much of which has been funded by donations to […]
Sponsored children get more help in Romania
https://www.facebook.com/TheGrassrootsTrust/videos/4101668993208077/?t=18
COVID-19 4th Food Distribution to Grassroots Sponsored Children in Tanzania
https://www.facebook.com/TheGrassrootsTrust/videos/3328925467139179/?t=28 Giving Food to each of the 2500 Grassroots Sponsored Children in Tanzania. The team are travelling again to make sure our vulnerable children and families can get through the pandemic, and the lack of work. To support go to grassroots.org.uk/give and select “Tanzania”
Watu wa Maana during Covid19 crisis
https://www.facebook.com/320416928066491/posts/3062038120571011/ When COVID19 started spreading in Kenya the government commanded all institutions to send residents to live somewhere as safe as possible in the community. Watu wa Maana Street Children’s Centre (where Grassroots sponsors children) sent all children where they could find a safe home to that home. This has been very difficult on those […]