Anke Wisselink came to Children in Crossfire to volunteer after a chance meeting on a plane home from Tanzania. After meeting Shauna from our fundraising department, the two ladies shared stories and experiences until it was decided that Anke must come for a visit and of course she did. A digital communications specialist, Anke came…
Educating the Heart: 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,…
This week’s guest blogger is Laura McCauley. Laura took up a volunteering position with our partners in the Gambia, and in this blog she shares her volunteering experiences and challenges as a partially sighted woman. Visually Impaired Volunteers in International Development By Laura McCauley My first ever memory of Africa is that of TV ads…
In the spirit of remembering Possibilities: Be the Revolution, we would like to share this wonderful piece written by Joe Murray of Afri back in 2011. “Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light delicate sky-blue sphere laced…
The Dalai Lama offers a deep wisdom to help us better understand and address the urgent and interconnected range of economic, social, political and environmental problems facing us today. He is someone respected by people from all walks of life, someone who can help us realise the real possibilities for change that exist in amongst…
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…