It’s back to making our photo blocks again. If you don’t already know these handmade, recycled delights are so very vital in our work. Featuring photos from my volunteering and travels, they help raise around a third of what we need to run all of our projects annually!! They literally are life changing gifts. Available …
It’s exam time for so many of our kids out in Sierra Leone right now. Good luck to all!! We are seeing great results already coming through….:)
It’s the fabulous Bela‘s birthday today! She’s our volunteer sponsorship manager and is the one with that enormous, never-ending task in her hands. She’s also queen of a children’s glitter party!!! Bela’s been so committed to the future of the kids over the years and was the key in our push to help them fulfil …
This man…Mark Anstey. 3 years ago I knew nothing of him. Then he wanted to come on a project. Since then we’ve spent 8 weeks together in Africa on 2 seperate trips. Side by side, sleeping on mud hut floors, roaming the remote African wilderness, frequently covered in dirt, rolling with whatever challenges are thrown …
Best friends!!! Fudia and Rachel are part of our Madina project in Sierra Leone – a place where you are never far away from a big smile! 🙂
One of my last jobs in Sierra Leone was to visit this very special young lady. Sento been extremely sick and has had a very difficult year, we are so lucky she is still with us. She’s been so frail and unwell it really wasn’t looking good at times. She now faces daily injections to …
Some of our girls in Uganda have recently been enjoying a wonderful experience in Tanzania where they’ve been competing in a international football tournament. It’s amazing to think these opportunities are happening for some of our kids! Janet enjoyed the attention of local journalists covering the event and helped her team to a silver medal …
Our girls competing in International football comp! Read More »
July 3rd. So I ended up in a nhs isolation quarantine zone! What we presumed would be a simple malaria blood test turned into a full scale, red flag nightmare. I was isolated for 2 days as staff donned their protective gear to take bloods to be sent away to test for Ebola, Lassa fever …
Day 7- It’s been a relentless and rewarding whirlwind week of work and with our heads tired and hearts heavy it’s already time for goodbyes. The week had gone remarkably well, but alas for me, not today. It started badly and just got worse. There was no sleep. Ants invaded my bed. When I tried …
Day 6 – Alarms are set, we grab breakfast of of spicy cassava and banana, before motorbikes take us deep into Sierra Leone’s inaccessible and remote north. The bike journeys out here are always a thrill, with unpredictable roads littered with holes, detours through thick bush, pools of water and swampy grasses. You want a …
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