Young people from Bishop Luffa school (Chichester) are in Tanzania this week serving with and learning from the Grassroots team. Delivering chickens to vulnerable families, painting the Grassroots kitchen inside and out, learning to dance the Tanzanian way, cooking/serving/cleaning the pots for the weekly feeding programmes, and Mr Goldsmith is helping them make wood frame […]
Films of Day of Celebration honouring Sharon Anson
A big THANK YOU to all of you who have sent message and cards to Hugo and Sharon’s family. There have been so many! Thank you in particular to so many who came yesterday (Tuesday 26th May) to the service celebrating Sharon’s life and the came on to the party where a number of people […]
Plans for the Day of Celebrating the Life of Sharon Anson
LIVE STREAM: We are planning to LiveStream both the service (11am UK time) and the speeches at the celebration party (about 2pm UK time). To join the livestream please click here on the day and you will be taken to the link. (The link will not work until near the day.) or click here: Funeral […]
2025 sponsored children interviews started in Tanzania
The Grassroots Tanzania team has started the annual interviews of all the sponsored children (2300+ of them) by going to Ndala, a lovely rural village in the mountains to the South of Mbeya. Each child (with their parent or carer) had an chat with a team member, had their photo taken and then had a […]
Very hungry children in Zambia
Food for hungry children is an essential part of what Grassroots does in Zambia. The 5 local churches work with KEVTC and some funding from Grassroots to provide regular meals for the children in the areas. Food gives children energy, intelligence, life, joy and community. After every interview sessions the church puts on a meal […]
Tanzania Child Sponsorship Interviews in full swing
Thank you for your prayers and support for the 3200+ sponsored children in Tanzania. This week has been re-enrolment week. A team of 11 from the UK have joined 30+ team members from Tanzania and gone to each of the 19 Grassroots locations in and around Mbeya. Here are some pictures of the interviews and […]
Chennai 2024 – team from UK visit the sponsored children and church
7 people from the UK went to Chennai and spent time with our friends in the slum. Kevin & Deborah and the church are wonderful and we all got stuck in. Sharon helped prepare biryani for the 330 Grassroots sponsored children in Chennai. The team making the food are mainly mothers and grandmothers of children […]
Chennai in 2023
At last … we made it to Chennai! It had been 3 long years. Lockdowns and quarantine rules were the start of the delays, but then the Indian government made it very hard for UK citizens to get visas. But, at last, we were able to get tickets and go and meet our friends. There […]
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