Successes
With your help, we’ve been changing lives for 90 years. These are just some of the successes your support has made possible over the past year.
- Surviving against the odds
Shahira tried and tried to have children. She didn't understand why her babies weren't surviving. Until our health project started in her area - now she has Hazim.
- Reunited after the tsunami
- We visited Rina, now eight, five years after she was separated from her family in the Asian tsunami and we reunited her with her father.
- Prejudice and pride
Defying the stigma they face in their community, young people at Pela Vidda, an HIV project we support in Brazil, are helping each other live life. "Here, I feel free to be myself" says Beatrice, 16.
- Together again in the Congo
Children often get separated from the their parents in the chaos resulting from the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. We found eight-year-old Jibu’s father and reunited them after two years apart.
- A health centre for expectant mums in Rwanda
Josephine lost her first child and narrowly escaped death herself during the birth of her second child because her nearest health centre was too far away. We’ve helped build a health centre near her village, which has helped Josephine and other mothers in the area give birth more safely.
- Back into school in Liberia
Sophia was one of thousands of children forcibly recruited into a rebel group by armed fighters during the most recent of Liberia’s civil wars. Having fled the group, she is now reunited with her mother and catching up on her studies through our accelerated learning classes.
- Essential items for families affected by the conflict in north-west Pakistan
Ilm Naz, five, and her family fled their home in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province with only what they could carry on their backs. We provided them with essential household and hygiene items so they could get by.
- Food and healthcare for Baraka in the Congo
Baraka was found attached to her dead mother by her umbilical cord. Although she was cared for by her foster mother, Noella, she didn’t thrive until we helped provide her with food and healthcare.
- Toilets and clean water for Nyawal and her classmates in Southern Sudan
Nyawal, ten, and other classmates at her school in Southern Sudan didn’t have running water or latrines. Since we installed a borehole and latrines, they’ve been able to concentrate on their education rather than on their thirst.
