Feed a family – UK Gift code UK2
Your gifts to Blythswood’s Highland Foodbank enabled a retail worker on a zero-hours contract to survive a post-Christmas collapse in her wages.
“Up until Christmas Wilma* was working 40 hours a week,” says Highland Foodbank manager Lorna...
Learning for life – Romania Gift code R2
Imagine this. Your mum can neither read nor write. Your dad you see only occasionally. Neither appreciates the importance of education. And when you are at home you are expected to look after your older sister’s children.
That’s t...
Care with clean water – Africa Gift code OH6
In March 2018, Ophelia lost two of her grandchildren. They died of cholera and diarrhoea as a result of drinking dirty water.
January to May is the dry season in Liberia and clean water is a scarcity in Monrovia, the nation’s...
Literature for life – Worldwide Gift code CL8
My name is Raza. I am 11 years old. I live in a village in Punjab province, Pakistan.
One day at Sunday School I was given a beautiful book called Jeremiah: A Man With A Message. I was so happy to read it in Urdu, the langua...
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...
