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 […]
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. […]
Zambian children who need Grassroots sponsors!
In January Grassroots officially started a pilot child sponsorship project with 3 churches in the drought hit area of Ndole, Zambia. A small group of children was selected from each church and Grassroots promised to try to find sponsors for them so they could get to school – for which they need uniform and a […]
Distributing uniform to all Tanzanian sponsored children
The new school year starts in January in Tanzania. That’s why we give out school supplies in late December or early January. Mwangelwa is a busy area of Mbeya. It has a large market with lost of colourful fabric and is very busy. Today the team arrived at the school where we hold the weekly […]
Bishop Luffa School with Grassroots in Tanzania – July 2019
And so the group from Bishop Luffa has arrived with Grassroots in Tanzania. After a long journey all 28 arrived well, so the adventure begins 10 July at 08:01 · Students from Bishop Luffa School (Chichester UK) with one of the many Grassroots Tanzania milk programmes (malnutrition prevention programme for children under 5 and their […]
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 […]
Day 7 in Tanzania – Freddie & Adam tell of their experiences with Grassroots
Evening all, Freddie and Adam here on the decks, hello to all the fans (our families) Adam: This morning was no different with the boys waking up to an overwhelming amount of dew on the outside of the tents, this made exiting the tent an undesirable activity often ending in disaster with wet clothes before […]
A blog post from Bishop Luffa School team in Tanzania with Grassroots
What a day! Late to church by ten minutes, but everyone welcomed us -amazing. Fabulous attitude. Everyone wore their best Sunday dress, even Joe Barnett turned up #wowthosetrousers😋 church itself was wild. Absolutely wild! Joseph (a translator) whipped out his beautiful singing voice and everyone was blown away- MAD. The atmosphere was incredible, everyone was […]