The Good News! Trust is a fairly small faith-based charity, located in Jersey, and with excellent links with the Jersey Overseas Aid Commission and in rural Kenya. In the last 10 years, they have completed a massive 102 school rehabilitation projects, and 62 water & sanitation (WASH) projects, in a relatively-small rural area around Oyugis,…
We in ElectricAid wish all our friends, members and supporters, all our partner organisations and beneficiaries, and of course, YOU, a very happy and peaceful Christmas. We hope that 2017 will be a year of prosperity and fulfilment all over our one world.
ElectricAid has always funded in Ireland as well as the Developing World. This year, we have approved a special “Christmas” funding of €10,000 to Focus Ireland, to help in their work against Homelessness in Ireland. The funding will be split 50:50 between education and training for homeless people, and work on behalf of families and…
In the words of the song, November is a time for preparation and creation. ElectricAid’s November funding round commitment of €166,297 to 19 different proposals certainly fits that bill. From a replacement rural school in Nepal, to supporting a block-making enterprise for people with disabilities in Zambia, we are helping to prepare people for a…
ElectricAid’s commitment of €10,000 to Concern & Plan Ireland last week for relief and recovery in Haiti represented the limit of what we could do at the time. But in just a few days since, our friends, members, supporters – and ESB – have come through and stood with Haiti in their latest dark hour.…
A week on from the devastating impact of Hurricane Matthew on Haiti, and the news keeps getting worse. At least 1,200 people have died, and in some of the worst-affected areas, up to 50% of all infrastructure has been destroyed, in an already fragile and very poor country. Widespread flooding has contaminated water supplies, caused…
Poverty amongst rural women is acute in Afghanistan, mainly as a result of decades of conflict. However, 805 of the country is peaceful and ripe for the development of the people. Our 2015 funding of Christian Aid’s project targeted 90 poor women-headed household in Karukh, Herat. The project strengthened 2 existing co-ops, provided literacy…
These images tell the story of Chief Abdul-Rahman Neindow in the village of Zuozugu, near to Tamale in Ghana. When Trachoma goes untreated, it becomes Trichiasis, where the eyelids turn in upon themselves so that the lashes are constantly scratching the eye. At this stage, only surgery, using TT kits, can save a person’s…
