I recently posted a feature about Rose, an 8 year old from Willesley School who had swum 250 metres in Lake Windermere & raised £200.76 to support Liverpool Community Junior School. After discussions with both parties it was agreed that we would purchased extra chairs for the Junior School library, and […]
After posting the article regarding Micro Credit I was contacted by a supporter who suggested I should come up with a specific name for the scheme. Having given it some consideration I decided to name it based on a bit of a play on words – it may be corny […]
In mid May, Hawa & Mary received £50 each to enable them to set up a small business to help provide for their families. Alternative schemes charge interest on the loan, but my priority is to give both these ladies a “Hand up” & “Make A Real Difference” for them. […]
The children at Bladon Primary School have just completed the “Smartie” Challenge ! The first part is quite enjoyable as they all got to eat a tube of Smarties. The idea then is to try and fill the tube with loose change which is going to help supply desk and […]
Rose is a pupil at Willesley School in Ashby De La Zouch and has heard me talk, in their school assemblies, about Liverpool Community School in Waterloo, Freetown. She decided that she wanted to do a fundraiser to support the children at her “link school”. I was expecting a biscuit […]
I have just got back from Oxford United having collected the latest consignment of assorted kit that the Club has donated to communities in Sierra Leone. Whilst there I presented Peter Rhoades-Brown, the Club’s Business Development Manager, with a wooden plaque from the team players of Mahera Wharf OUFC. It […]
At the start of May a lady whose son is part of the Oxford United Academy contacted me as she had heard about my work with the Mahera Wharf football community. After explaining about the living conditions where a number of the boys, some of who are orphans, live she […]
After a really busy few months things have quietened down a bit but there are still things happening as the country enters its “rsainy season”. At Calvary School THEY have funded the sinking of a well for the school and chuch community and I am now supporting them in phase […]
In March I was invited to talk to the 99 pupils about my work in Sierra Leone. I explained to them the differences between the life that children in Sierra Leone have compared to their lives here in the UK. I showed them pictures of typical houses, explaining that most […]
