Kevin, Deborah and the SKM church team have written to tell us how they are coping now that all of India is in lock down. Churches cannot meet and the children’s homework club where the Grassroots sponsored children come every day is closed. But the children and families still need the food that your sponsorship […]
Almost finished – Grassroots UK team in Tanzania 2019
We have almost finished our time in Tanzania. Interviews continue for another day. We started the week with 2500 needing to be done at the end of Friday we have 389 left to do. What a privilege it is to hear the stories of so many families. We have laughed and cried together. There are […]
Every Child Matters – Tanzania Oct 2019
Grassroots Tanzania team and a team from Grassroots UK are joined together this week in the annual task of interviewing every one of the over 2500 children sponsored in Tanzania. Here are some pictures. Sue has been coming out to Tanzania with Grassroots regularly over many years to help with interviewing the children on the […]
The best team …. in Tanzania!
Team day in Tanzania. Always good to join together to talk, pray and eat together. So many new things happening here at the moment… Great T-Shirts too!
One of many amazingly talented children
Proud of this one on the grassroots child sponsorship scheme. She won a two week trip to China as a result of her exams in written Chinese. She had a fab time…. but is glad to be back home in Tanzania.
Grassroots Sewing Bee
Really grateful to the many people who make clothes and hats which bring such joy to those in Tanzania. Hats from Woodford and this dress by Rotary “Inner Wheel” Farnham (the women’s branch of Rotary)…. Thank you so much!
Annual visit to Good Neighbours & Watu wa Maana Street Children Centre – Grassroots Partners in Kenya
These first pictures are from the Good Neighbours project in Theta – a very poor community North of Nairobi. Good Neighbours is both the church and the Grassroots Partner organisation that runs the child sponsorship scheme in the community. They also run Judah Excellence Primary School where many of the children learn. Each morning, during […]
Grassroots team of volunteers visiting sponsored children in Chennai
We have arrived in Chennai and it has been a full on day. After not sleeping for over 36 hours tiredness is beginning to set in. We had a fab time meeting people in the community and praying with them. The homes in the slum are very small just one room no bigger then box […]