As a lifelong teacher and advocate for young children and families, Mary Kabati embodies the Children in Crossfire values. Mary is the program coordinator for Tanzania Home Economics Association, a Children in Crossfire –funded organization that empowers individuals, families and communities in Tanzania through education and training. Through her work, advocating for young children and their families…
Meet Alyssa who has interned with our Development Education team for these past 8 weeks. Alyssa shares her journey with us, and how working here has helped challenge her “extremely critical assumptions about charities” and “develop so much respect for Development Education and the power it has to connect our work in Africa to the…
You might remember that our Advent Campaign 2014 was aimed at raising funds for safe water for thousands of people, vulnerable people in Ethiopia. We are delighted to tell you that throughout 2015 and now into 2016 we have been constructing shallow wells and protected springs in three areas. One of the wells we funded…
5 Good Reasons and a Few Words of Wisdom Recently, Children in Crossfire has been working on evolving its Development Education practice to nurture the emotional well-being of young people alongside building their capacity for critical thinking and active citizenship. We believe that for long term engagement in issues of global injustice, young people need…
Before this internship, I had never really thought about the word compassion. I thought of it as synonymous with the words kind, caring and nice. The words we would just throw around while describing something happy or lovely. Not like that’s a bad thing, but not particularly meaningful either. Over these past few weeks, I…