Latest News from Blythswood Care

News Items - What a gift!

2010-03-02T17:32:44Z

Sometimes it is hard to imagine what others go through simply to survive from day to day. Hunger is a fact of life for the world’s poor in Africa, in Asia and even in parts of Europe.

News Items - Gifrt of Goats brings daily nourishment

2010-03-02T17:31:21Z

Goats provided by Blythswood Care are helping a low-income family in Bulgaria to raise their four children.

News Items - Fatherless Girl now gets three meals daily

2010-03-02T17:29:44Z

Showjanya did not know what it was to be hungry until her father was injured in a road accident three years ago. Within three months the family had sold everything of value to pay for his medical care. Within six he was dead.

News Items - Wheelchair User Transforms Quality of Life

2010-03-02T17:28:26Z

Nebojsa is looking forward to the snow melting so that he can get back outside in his wheelchair. Since receiving his machine from Blythswood last year he thinks nothing of covering up to seven kilometres in a day!

News Items - Gospel Tracts change hearts in Post War Liberia

2010-03-02T17:26:42Z

Something urged Rev Charles Johnson to go and speak to the tramp who squatted by a camp fire near the stadium gate. Looking ragged and worn, and with shoes falling apart, the old soldier was reading a leaflet just received at the evangelistic meeting.

Press Releases - Blythswood Clocks 20 Years in Romania

2010-01-18T16:11:17Z

Friday [15 January 2010] marks the 20th anniversary of the departure of Blythswood’s first aid lorry to Romania on 15 January 1990. Since then the Highland-based charity has grown into an international organisation supporting social care projects in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Press Releases - BLYTHSWOOD APPEAL RAISED 122,000 GIFT BOXES

2010-01-12T10:06:43Z

Scottish charity Blythswood Care has dispatched 122,000 gift boxes to nine countries in Eastern Europe and Asia as a result of its 2009 Shoe Box Appeal.

Press Releases - Local Lady's 90th Birthday Challenge to Help Children in Moldova

2010-01-05T10:17:17Z

A local lady has come up with an unusual way to celebrate her birthday and to help children in Moldova at the same time.

Press Releases - BLYTHSWOOD'S FLAGSHIP STORE REOPENED BY COUNCILLOR LAING

2009-12-09T16:51:38Z

Blythswood Care’s newly refurbished shop at Highland Deephaven, Evanton, was officially opened on Tuesday [1 December 2009] by Highland Councillor, Mr John Laing.

Blythwood News - Giving children back their childhood

2009-11-26T15:39:16Z

Jagan was crying with hunger when Mary Kumari found him, sitting under a tree. Around him the water buffalo which he was herding fed on lush green grass. But eight year old Jagan had only had rice water that morning. He would have nothing more until he returned to his master’s house.

Blythwood News - Adelina makes the grade with help from Blythswood

2009-11-26T15:36:31Z

Adelina just loves dancing! And that’s only one of the many talents she has developed at Talita Kum, Blythswood’s after-school programme for children from low-income families.

Blythwood News - Recession Increases Demand on Highland Foodbank

2009-11-26T15:32:30Z

Highland Food Bank helped nearly 3,000 people in the first nine months of 2009 - an increase of nearly 50% on the previous year. Food Bank coordinator Lorna Dempster reckons the current recession is certainly a factor in this dramatic rise.

Blythwood News - Supporting Children affected by Africa's HIV/AIDS Epidemic

2009-11-26T15:30:12Z

When Aphline’s dad was well, he supported his family by using his bicycle as a taxi. But now he is sick. He no longer has the strength. Her mother too has HIV and struggles to care for her children and her husband.

Blythwood News - Liberty!

2009-11-26T15:26:00Z

1989! What a change took place! Opportunities only dreamed of suddenly became reality as Eastern Europe began to shake off communism.

Press Releases - MILLBURN PUPILS THINK OF OTHERS IN SHOEBOX CAMPAIGN

2009-11-26T10:17:44Z

Pupils at Millburn Academy have filled 365 gift boxes for Blythswood Care’s annual Shoe Box Appeal.

Press Releases - Blythswood Appeals for Indian Flood Victims

2009-10-13T14:05:56Z

Blythswood Care is appealing for cash donations to help those affected by flooding in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Kashmir.

Press Releases - SEPTEMBER IS 'WILL RELIEF SCOTLAND' MONTH

2009-09-10T11:38:09Z

Solicitors across Scotland are supporting charities by offering to make wills for free in the month of September.

News Items - Boxes brighten Christmas in the stable

2009-08-25T12:11:30Z

In winter, the Butuc children must hurry to finish their homework in daylight as their stable home lacks electricity.

News Items - Leprosy sufferer feels God answers prayer

2009-08-25T12:10:47Z

Having no fingers means that Paul cannot work. There was no mistaking his joy when he received a gift box from Blythswood!

News Items - Millionth shoebox goes to gypsy Bulgarian child

2009-08-25T12:10:06Z

A seven year old gypsy child in Bulgaria was overjoyed to receive a colouring book, pens and winter clothes last Christmas.

News Items - Very Important People

2009-08-25T12:09:07Z

India’s poor are important in the sight of God, says Blythswood’s CE James Campbell.

News Items - First Minister lends support to Emergency Service vehicle provision for Moldova

2009-08-17T14:00:29Z

First Minister Alex Salmond lent his support to Blythswood in our mission to provide emergency service vehicles to Moldova.

Press Releases - Blythswood Needs Furniture and Big White Goods

2009-08-10T10:35:18Z

Blythswood Care needs donationa of furniture and big white goods in Inverness and Easter Ross. The north-based charity has renewed its appeal to supporters in the area to help stock its shops in Inverness and Evanton.

Press Releases - Palau Festival Boost for Highland Food Bank

2009-07-03T10:46:03Z

Eight hundred kilograms of food was gathered for Highland Food Bank by the recent Luis Palau Highland Festival.

News Items - Chief Executive's Message

2009-06-29T11:50:06Z

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)

Confidence in this precious promise from the word of God underpins the education projects of Blythswood Care’s partners in Europe, Africa and Asia.

News Items - Training Teachers for Special Needs Children

2009-06-29T11:25:26Z

Sreeja’s dream job is to be a teacher of children with special needs. A teacher training college in Kerala, India, supported by Blythswood Care, means the recent school-leaver can embark on her chosen career.

News Items - Transforming Communties in Albania

2009-06-29T11:13:33Z

A community development course supported by Blythswood Care in Albania has transformed the outlook of Sadete Kolgjini.

When she moved to Albania’s capital city in 1992 with her husband and six children, she was unable to read and write. It was hard for her husband to find a job and life was incredibly difficult in their unheated shack, without water or sanitation

News Items - Bridging the Language Gap at School

2009-06-29T10:52:09Z

Alexandra, now nine, has simply blossomed. The support of Blythswood’s after-school programme Talita Kum has helped her cope with three years of education in what is for her a second language.

Press Releases - Charity to Auction Rare Books

2009-04-09T13:48:54Z

Thousands of rare and collectible books will be auctioned in Elgin to raise funds for highland-based charity Blythswood Care.

Press Releases - Ross-Shire Freemasons Fill Buckets for Blythswood

2009-04-06T10:53:54Z

The Freemasons of Ross-shire have filled 30 Buckets of Love for Blythswood Care.