News from the Chilomoni Tots!

It’s hard to believe the Mother Teresa Children’s Centre only became fully operational this year. Centre Manager, volunteer Helen Chiula, shared an update with us. “More of the older children, known as  ‘Eagles’ have flown from the nest!  August 2013 saw 8 more MTCC children graduate to primary school.  Two have gone to Mchiru Private…

We’ve endeavored to help Beehive to grow a huge training capacity so that young people in Chilomoni can gain employment skills and vocational qualifications. One of the most successful training enterprises that’s grown over the past ten years is the St John Paul II Leadership and IT Institute (or JP2 for short!) Here’s a short…

Great news from the busy Beehive Construction Team, we have just received planning permission to add to the Beehive Campus with a brand new two floor building. For the past year the building team have been kept busy with completion of the football pitch, vital maintenance works across Chilomoni and converting containers for temporary facilities….

Thanks to Transport for London, these brand new shiny “Boris Bikes” have arrived to help transform Chilomoni. Three months ago the Krizevac team loaded them up into our 17th shipping container of the year, “We’ve turned pedals, handlebars, lifted and loaded 1830 bikes this year”, Zoe Kasiya, Resources Manager for Krizevac told us, “it’s a lot…

Many charities spend a lot of time, effort and money on complex planning, evaluation and make an academic study of development. We’re trying to spend our time, effort and money on action which transforms the lives of the disadvantaged.   “It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do…

Have you just spring cleaned your garden shed? Sorted through that dusty book case? And do you live in the Stafford area? If you’ve answered yes, we may be able to help! David Stevens in the ST16 postcode area has offered to be a collection point for us. You can take a bag of books,…