Water in Samburu
The rains have failed in April so the crisis continues. Yet there has come some recent hope of sustainable solutions for the future. Read this sms message just received from Edward Buria:
‘We are so overwhelmed by discovering water in our Wamba centre and we are now sinking a 3 million (£30,000) bore hole [...]
Recently I gathered the students from my church, Church of Christ the King in Brighton, UK, who were taking degrees or modules in Development Studies from the local universities. I had become aware that these courses, being secular in nature, tend to discourage our students by having little place for the spiritual dimension of mankind. [...]
Continue reading about Development Studies - Christian cf Secular pt 1
Resistance Fighter has just been published and is a read-at-one-sitting book. For me it turned the tedium of a flight from UK to West Africa into an enjoyable, challenging, emotional and disturbing experience as Susie Howe took me from the joys of playing with lively orphaned children in Zimbabwe to the horrors of learning of [...]
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Having seen the importance of recognising the assumptions we are making in planning a specific ministry we will now return to the example we have been using to illustrate how to use the Logframe, the ministry among homeless people in Brighton. We will consider some of the assumptions that must apply for success at each [...]
Continue reading about Planning for Ministry Pt 9 - Logframe Assumptions pt 2
Continuing to consider the Logframe as a planning tool we shall now look at the left hand column of the Logical Framework Matrix:
Goals
Purpose
Outcomes
Activities
Goals
In the development world the Goal may arise out of a national or sectoral policy e.g. HIV in sub Saharan Africa. However, it need not be this far-reaching. A city may have [...]
Foundational Concepts for helping without hurting.
In this excellent book - a ‘must read’ for all who are involved in helping people who are poor or disadvantaged - the authors look critically at both the issues of poverty and how it is defined, and at the typical response of very well meaning individuals and agents of [...]
Continue reading about ‘When helping hurts’ pt 1 - Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
From time to time it is my pleasure to use my blog to draw people’s attention to ministries which I consider demonstrate ‘Good Practice’ among those who are in some way disadvantaged.
This report has been written by the team leaders of Alternatives Pregnancy Counselling Centre in Brighton, UK. This ministry demonstrates great love, compassion and excellence.
Called [...]
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Manyangalo
In 1924 people from 8 tribes were brought together in the centre of a 160,000 acre (250 sq miles) game reserve. They had been brought there to care for the area and tend the animals. Over the next 80 years the land changed ownership several times, the most recent being in 2004. The new owner [...]
Continue reading about Country report – Kenya pt 2. The forgotten tribes
Following my time in the Harare area a 4 hour drive to Bulawayo took me to the farm of Peter Cunningham, successful ostrich farmer and visionary, who seeks to help empower the poor by ‘out-sourcing’ the husbandry of young ostriches to village people and then buying them back for processing. I was also amazed to [...]
Continue reading about Report on Zimbabwe pt 2 - Rural Poverty
I love receiving regular updates from the Clinic based at Jubilee Church in Cape Town! They are always full of faith and testimonies of God’s intervention – so I felt to share a report with you to be blessed also! It is written by Dr Caryn Wilson whose passion and leadership of the Team make [...]
Continue reading about Ministry Report 4 - Jubilee Health Centre, Cape Town
