The Pantry Partnership raises funds for Women's community groups in developing countries. Funds are used to enable the women to purchase kitchen equipment and supplies. All items help save energy, reduce manual labour and carbon emissions and improve safety and hygiene conditions for the...

Alexander Kedje Reports from Ghana: Several communities in the Volta and Eastern Regions have been severely hit by floods as a result of recent heavy rains. Please see the pictures above because they describe the severity of the situation best. Five people have been reported dead after the...

Josh West is a bus driver. His bus is a high tech, shiny, red, double decker which he drives through the centre of London every day, passing historic and famous buildings. Leaving his bus behind, Josh travelled to Manila in the Philippines to take up his new job as a Jeepney driver on some of...

Across East Africa many girls do not have access to any form of sanitary wear. There is fear, superstition and embarrassment about body changes leading to low self-esteem in women. They are forced to use local substitutions to sanitary wear such as newspaper, leaves and cow-dung. Leaving home for...

The North-East Monsoon started in Sri Lanka towards the end of November 2010 and continued over the next 6 weeks. On Saturday 8th of January 2011, 300mm of rain fell on Batticaloa District. HOPE works with MENCAFEP to help disabled children in this area. The MENCAFEP centres in Batticaloa have...

Children in Kenya are forced to turn to the streets for a number of reasons, including abuse, neglect, family conflict, HIV/AIDS, or poverty. Poverty creates a vicious circle of events that can devastate family structures. It pushes children to turn to the streets and participate in informal...

The Borella Day Care Centre enables disadvantaged children to obtain a pre school education, inclusive of morning and mid day meals as well as vocational skills development for school leavers and drop outs, free of charge. All this, in a safe, child friendly environment away from the daily abuses...

Most of the parents with children on our Walk to School program have very little funds to live on. The highest they earn in a week is 1,500 UGX, less than £1. HOPE Uganda has started women’s projects, where we encourage the ladies to come to our office and learn different practical skills....

Hope for Children is launching a fund-raising campaign to buy and distribute albendazole tablets to the children of Namuwongo. Thousands of children in sub-saharan Africa are infected with hookworm, roundworm and whipworm. Infection with worms can cause anaemia, diarrhoea, coughing, wheezing,...

The aim of the project is to tackle the exploitation of young girls in the Northern Region of Ghana. Many girls are at risk of being forced into labour and trafficked to southern towns or cities where they work as domestic servants, farm labourers, and in some cases, as sex workers. Children are...