A university-based student leadership development initiative to prepare and empower future generation of Ghanaian, and in time African, leaders.

Support for improving the hospital infrastructure in Gulu Hospital, Uganda.

Support for a trained carer to work with young adults with learning disabilities in Santa Domingo, Ecuador. In this context, the carer is preparing young adults with learning difficulties for the workplace through education and life skills training. In this project we are working with a number of sponsors to support this work.

From the year 2000 AIM have been able to buy and develop a number of plots of land in Kiyindi, Uganda to build a thriving community centred on a school. So far they have built a medical centre, church, pastor’s house, rooms for the staff of the centre, as well as rooms for the pastor’s extended family. In another location at the back of the centre and up in the hills they are working on a large day/boarding school as well as a small primary and nursery school (3 schools in all).

What was once a village has now grown into a bigger community with the result that councillors have applied for town status. Subject to funding, the next stages of development is for a girls’ dormitory to accommodate 120 beds, staff houses for the teachers, a small sick bay for pupils and a house for the Headmaster and his family.

We are working with GAP to support specific schools in socially deprived areas of Reading with 8 family advocacy programmes delivered over two 12-month periods by 4 family advocates. These work in pairs and deliver 2 programmes each per year. This project will be matc- funded by another local charity which will bring real strength and depth to this initiative. The project will be a foundation for future similar projects and will deliver a positive legacy to the communities in these areas.

A21 specifically works at ending human trafficking and modern day slavery. The organisations is active worldwide, but especially in Europe.

Initially this work was started by one lady 10 years ago. She opened up her flat, bringing in local kids to cook for them and help them with their homework. Since then and with significant support from Kings Church, Horsham, they are now in a rented building in Brasov, are part of the social outreach of the local church and a legally recognised charity in Brasov.

She saw a need with really poor children who were trapped in a cycle of poverty, didn’t get help at home to do their homework, which was a significant factor to them failing at school and not getting an education. This cycle continually led to poor employment prospects. For many of the girls this led to pregnancy at young age and the whole cycle repeated again. She now has 20-30 children and is looking for their own building to further expand the work in the deprived area of Stupini.

The main areas of ministry cover:

• Homework club: helping the kids with their homework and giving them a hot meal; this includes supporting bus fares for the kids to get there.
• Creche: a small creche for some of the mothers from Stupini (ex kids who used to go to the homework club)
• Food bank: food is donated or bought and given out to needy families once a month.

Now, most of the children are integrated into the church and attend the different youth groups in the church, with some of the older ones now serving in the church. One of the biggest visions is to see these kids integrating into the church, serving in the church and being able to make wise choices as they grow up.

One of the more practical visions is to secure a building in the Stupini area where many of these kids come from. Just now the centre is in the city which is quite far from Stupini and having a building in Stupini will allow them to get involved in some many other things. The Mayor of Brasov has or is speaking about donating some land in Stupini for them to build something.

The Tricordant Foundation is one of many supporting this project.

Hephzibah’s House is a new venture which has been established to support people towards fulfilling their potential, regardless of their individual challenges: to promote positive change and facilitate personal growth in spite of any past or present personal difficulty.
It works from the premise that it is always possible to have a fresh start, to renew self-image and to gain a positive sense of identity regardless of painful or traumatic experience.
Sometimes, however, support is needed in order to achieve this. To this end, face-to-face ‘Integrative Counselling’ is offered, most specifically to those within marginalized sectors of the immediate community in rural South Wales.

Supporting lives and outcomes of children in care, the trust directly supports young people in care and care leavers through its engagement programme – including life skills workshops for young care leavers, a ‘young trainers’ scheme and work supporting young people who want to bring about improvements in the provision of care. The trust’s work includes:

• informing and supporting thousands of children in care through magazines and publications designed specifically for them
• influencing improvements in policy and practice by ensuring the views and experiences of children in care are heard at the highest level
• providing support and information materials for foster carers, local authorities and other professionals responsible for welfare and education
• developing innovative, collaborative projects which aim to improve life in and after care.

The mission of Health and Hope is to help run programmes that put primary health care, education, hope and community development into the hands of villagers in and around Chin State, Myanmar (Burma). Health and Hope is a community-based organisation which partners with local villages regardless of tribal association, religious background, gender or social standing. Health and Hope shares the ownership of its life-changing programmes with the communities it serves.

This charity works in the Middle East and North Africa. They have a specific ministry now to people on the frontline of the Iraqi/Kurdish war with IS. The ministry administers the love of Christ to Iraqi refugees in Kurdistan through the provision of Bibles and humanitarian aid, especially offering aid and practical help in the refugee camps.