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School boys grinning at Spurgeon's Academy, Kenya

Focus on Spurgeons Academy, Kibera

Overcrowded classrooms. Limited sanitation. High teacher turnover. An expensive and confusing new curriculum. Political turmoil. Poor water supply. Hunger. Period poverty.
A new welfare support worker for Sri Lanka

To Serve and Protect

A new welfare support worker joined the team at the Morning Star Care Centre, in Sri Lanka, in January, thanks to the efforts of our intrepid Dragon Boat Racers last …
Julia Gillard at RISING peace conference, 2019

World Leaders and World Problems

What a privilege, encouragement and a challenge to listen to Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia, speak at the RISING Forum, a peace conference in Coventry’s beautiful Cathedral …
Crops wither in Cambodia drought

Climate Crisis: Poorest Hit Hardest

There’s a measure of tragic irony in the fact that, for years, we’ve had to explain to people that even though we’re called Global Care we are …
Micha under the stairs with her sister

Studying Under The Stairs

*Micha’s father already had ten children by his first wife, when Micha and her brother were born to his second wife. Massive tension between the two women meant the …
Reina as a teacher, outside her classroom

A Hand Up Not A Hand Out

The odds were stacked against *Reina, who was born with sickle cell anaemia in a desperately poor family in northern Uganda, and then experienced the trauma of being displaced by …
Sensory play with a child using a soft brush

Finding A Way Into Their World

This summer I led a team of four UK teachers to Soroti, Uganda to undertake three days of intensive special educational needs (SEN) training for teachers and playworkers from SEN …