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 […]
Visiting the Children you Sponsor in Romania
Sharon and Ruth are in Romania this week visiting all the children sponsored via Grassroots. This involves driving long distances to their homes which are often in quite remote settings. The scenery is stunning. Building stability and value into a child’s life takes time. It has been wonderful to meet children for the first time […]
Building a Home in Romania this week
This is the place this family lived in before… then they knocked it down and started to prepare the site … and the family started living in a shelter until the build could be done… then the UK team members set off from Luton airport to join the Romanian team members… on […]
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 […]
Holly writes : Day 5 of Bishop Luffa team in Tanzania
Hello parents!! So we’ve been here 5 days now and have all settled in nicely… It’s Holly (Jones) here (Hey fam I miss you but not told much and I’m having a great time) Today we split into 3 groups and all did different things as the start of our 3 day rotation… So once […]
Bishop Luffa School 2018 team to Tanzania with Grassroots- posts on Facebook
A series of posts from Tanzania while the Bishop Luffa School young people were over there. It starts with a video of a dance lesson from Gwakisa so that the Brit young people can dance Tanzania style. (Day 1 is at the bottom) https://www.facebook.com/TheGrassrootsTrust/videos/1765917080183128/ DAY 3: Another great day with students from Bishop Luffa. Day […]
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 […]
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