At camp this summer, the eight-year-old seemed unsure at first about the climbing wall. But she was the first to volunteer to have a go and she was the only child to succeed in making it all the way to the top.

A week’s holiday at a resort in the Carpathian Mountains wa...

A child from a marginalised community in southern Moldova has made a good start at school thanks to a pre-school programme supported by Blythswood Care.

Ruslan, now aged seven, was born into a Roma family which has no permanent place of residence. But staying with an au...

Your gifts have helped prevent children from being taken into care.  National policy in Romania is to keep children in families but this is not always possible.

The Almas family has ten children between the ages of one and 15. Their father is receiving treatment for lu...

Raheela is just nine years  old but already knows what  it is to have family responsibilities.

Her father is a drug addict and  doesn’t work. Her mother works  for two other families, washing  clothes, scrubbing pots and  sweeping the floor.

When her...

“How old are you?”

Amir holds up three fingers to indicate his age. The basic and overcrowded conditions of the Roma camp at Kragujevac, Serbia, are all he has ever known.

Each room is home to an entire family, even one with eight children. Water is carried home in plast...

Besa Shapllo witnesses both  joy and heartbreak as she  delivers Blythswood  shoeboxes to a children’s  hospital in Tirana year  after year.

“When we entered Santiljo  was having dinner, but when  he saw us he stopped eating,”  Besa says. “His beauti...

A little girl grabs her brother with excitement as Blythswood shoeboxes are delivered to their village home in southwestern Ukraine, near the border with Slovakia. “The family live in one room which is cold and dirty,” says Tanya Shpygunova who visited them on 8 Januar...

Seventeen-year-old twins Lajos and Zoltan can’t see the gifts you sent them. But they can hear what is said by the person delivering the boxes to their village home in Eastern Hungary.

 And they can smell the soap, they can feel the toothbrushes, they can taste the swee...

The last three years have been tough for Nicoleta and it shows in her face as she clutches her youngest child to her. Four-year-old John is really too big for carrying around but following the death of his father in a building site accident, the family are exceptionall...