This week small Grassroots UK team (Mel, Sally and Andy) are in Bistrita (Romania) and the surrounding villages. Cristina, from our partner organisation Benita, has set up interviews with all the Grassroots sponsored children. Some of the children are being visited by the team in their homes, while other families are coming to the Benita […]
Bishop Luffa School with Grassroots Tanzania
A team of students from Bishop Luffa School (Chichester UK) and their teachers are visiting the Grassroots Tanzania projects this week. They are making beds, delivering them with mattresses to families that previously slept on the floor (often compacted mud), taking groups of children to the zoo, delivering livestock and learning how to start with […]
Reintegration is Right – and costs
Grassroots sponsors children in “Watu wa Maana Street Children’s Rehabilitation and Reintegration Centre” in Ruiru – just outside Nairobi Kenya. The children come from a number of traumatised backgrounds. Some have lived in homes that were abusive. Others have parents who are abusing substances and so the children have suffered from neglect. Many have then […]
Lovely Family Home now in Remote place in Romania
We just received this message from Iacob who runs the home building project for very poor in Transylvania, Romania. “Here are the some pictures from Dumitra. In the first days of December the family moved into the new house and all members of the family are extremely happy. They asked me to pass on to […]
Team in Romania almost finished off…
Big push today. Team worked to their limits. Lights installed and #solarpanel so could go on #building the #bedroom! Roof done. #Render started. Bedroom wall nearly done. Tomorrow is last day, we #plasterboard the ceiling, finish the bedroom and render.
Mbeya Social Housing Project
Really thrilled that Grassroots Tanzania have almost completed the second set of three dwellings in the new housing project. These will be used for people in need of accommodation due to being in child led families or for grandmothers looking after children who presently live in very poor conditions. Many of the children involved are […]
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 […]
Home Finished and Sponsoring more Children in Romania
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 […]