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    • Free education for
    underprivileged girls
    in Khariar, North India

    Hostel student Smruthi Rani (pictured left) wants to be a nurse when she grows up. Her father died of cancer, and her family could not afford to pay for her schooling. Smruthi is gaining an education at the Mission Girls' Hostel so in future she can serve her community and help people like her father.

    Partner: USPG
    Project: Mission Girls' Hostel

    Global learning in Kent

    Commonwork is an educational charity, working with children and young people in schools exploring global challenges such as poverty, injustice and climate change. Together they work to understand how we are all interdependent and how we can take action locally for a more just and sustainable world.

    "Partner: Commonwork
    Project: 'Grow2Grow' and 'Grow Cook Eat'

     

    A family home for orphans and
    outreach project for children
    in Antananarivo, Madagascar

    Providing a permanent Christian family home, the orphanage offers love, care and education to around 40 children. Akany Tafita (meaning "maturing and developing lives") is an outreach project for children in the area, providing food, healthcare and education as well as special programmes for young women teaching them skills so that they may become self-sufficient. Both projects need fund to support more children in need. Patrner: Diocese of Madagascar

    Patrner: Diocese of Madagascar

    Helping women
    in Afghanistan
    to read and write

    Illiteracy traps people in poverty. Only 13 per cent of women and girls in Afghanistan can read and write. Karmeen Herawi (pictured left), aged 15, begged her husband and her parents to let her attend the STARS women's literacy course. Now she can read and write, and says she wants to serve on the women's council or even become a parliamentarian.

    Patrner: Christian Aid
    Project: STARS women's literacy programme

     

    Physical help, spiritual guidance
    and security for street c
    hildren in Olinda, Brazil

    Life is tough in the favela (slum). Children suffer abuse and neglect; out of desperation some children sell cocaine. Fernando (pictured right) used to roam the streets, scrounging for food on the rubbish dump and had begun to deliver drugs. 'My Father's House' has helped Fernando, who has now discovered his talent for drawing and playing the guitar.

    Partner: CMS
    Project: 'My Father's House'