Groveley 3D-printing face shield parts

Groveley Precision Engineering has joined firms large and small across the UK that are turning their skills to building PPE.

The Christchurch company is urgently 3D-printing plastic parts for PPE face shields that are being donated to NHS staff to help keep them protected against Covid-19.

http://www.groveley.co.uk/latest-news/articles/3D-printing-face-shield-parts

Photo courtesy of Groveley

Covid-19: help save lives in Namatala

International appeal for donations to help families in the Namatala slum.

Child of Hope's big impact

Namatala slum, Uganda: Child of Hope has published its new Impact Report, which covers work, successes and impact during 2019. Read about achievements in the areas of education, business start-ups, fostering vulnerable children, community and health education, agricultural innovations and safe water.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/big-impact

Slum mum makes bricks by hand

CHILD OF HOPE, NAMATALA SLUM, UGANDA: Spare a thought this Mothering Sunday for young mums like Miriam, who is lifting her family out of terrible poverty by hand-making bricks in a Ugandan slum.

Read the whole story... https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/miriam-makes-bricks-hand

Child of Hope's water well transformed by solar-powered pump

NAMATALA SLUM, UGANDA: Fetching clean, safe water is now much easier for our primary school – because we have fitted our well with a solar-powered electric pump!

Over the last few years, our primary school installed a rainwater harvesting system and an underground well, thanks to help from our supporters in the UK. Both have helped our school drastically cut its safe water costs.

Read more: https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/solar-powered-pump

Child of Hope: Exam teacher training

NAMATALA SLUM, EASTERN UGANDA: Teachers receiving training on how to construct exam questions, which will save the cost of purchasing them.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/training-teachers-set-exams

Artist Jan Dowding: new work

Liquid Gold: I went for some different colours this time; thinking this would fit well with grey furniture or decor. When in sunlight or a well-lit room, the gold vein really pops out. Acrylic on box canvas 24×24″.

https://jedart.co.uk/news/

Child of Hope: mountain conquered!

MBALE, UGANDA: Climbing a Ugandan mountain to raise money for our school.

Advantages of self-storage for a small business

Social media post and photography for Store & Secure self storage, Bournemouth and Poole.

Child of Hope: slum business success

NAMATALA SLUM, UGANDA: Since joining the charity’s Income Generating Activities (IGA) scheme in 2017, mum Harriet says her business enables her to be more debt-free than before, enabling her to take care of the her entire family while her husband is far away in South Sudan – and she even saves a small amount every week for the future. Read more

Child of Hope offers sponsorship of our Income Generating Activities scheme from £15/month, which helps pay for start-up grants and for our IGA staff that provide training and ongoing support to mums like Harriet. If you’d like to sponsor this highly-effective project – which helps lift families out of the worst excesses of poverty very quickly – please click here for details.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/harriets-business-success

Jabel is happier at Child of Hope

NAMATALA SLUM, UGANDA: Life is changing for four-year-old Jabel who had been abandoned at a young age to live under the care of a neighbour. But now he's at our nursery school and has been reunited with his mother. And Jabel has sponsors in Northern Ireland who are supporting his education. Read more... https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/jabel-happier

Best of buddies

CHILD OF HOPE, NAMATALA SLUM, UGANDA: Young slum kids Yazid and Silas are inseparable in school at playtimes. Both are in the top class of the nursery section and have been friends since the time they entered school. They sit separately in class to help them remain focused in lessons but like to seek each other out at any opportunity.

Yazid and Silas happily share any locally made snacks either is able to bring into school, otherwise they sit together, happy and smiling, as they enjoy the break time porridge the school provides. They are always sad to go their separate ways at 12.30 when school finishes.

These boys enjoy having sponsors in the UK; if you would like to consider sponsoring similar children through their education, please click here: https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/what-we-do/sponsorship/sponsor-child

Child of Hope primary pupils are back to school

NAMATALA SLUM, EASTERN UGANDA: Pupils and teachers were reunited at the start of a new school year last week.  The new term officially started in the whole of Uganda on February 3.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/back-school-2020

Child of Hope: Languages for life

NAMABASA, EASTERN UGANDA: These two ladies are our language teachers at our new secondary school. That’s Simon with them; he’s part of the excellent CoH communications team in Uganda which supplies us with news and videos.

Left is Miss Modesta, who teaches Kiswahili language, while on the right is Miss Rita, our English teacher. Both teachers live in Namatala slum, so they fully understand the needs of the students they will be working with and the struggle for a better life in the challenging slum.

https://www.childofhopeuganda.org/news/languages-life

Salsa: new painting from Jan Dowding

JED Art, Dorset, UK: First painting of the year and I fancied a bit of colour! It’s in acrylic, nice and big at 36″ by 36″ called Salsa, because I thought it looks a bit hotter than some of my other paintings…
https://jedart.co.uk/news/