“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...
Press release 6th June 2019
For more information contact Ian Matheson 01349 830777
A north-based charity is terminating its monthly collection of donated goods in Perth and Dundee. Blythswood Care’s Round Scotland collection lorry has made its final call at both cities...
Press release 6th June 2019
For more information contact Ian Matheson 01349 830777
A north-based charity is terminating its monthly collection of donated goods in Peterhead and Fraserburgh. Blythswood Care’s Round Scotland collection lorry will make its final call on Th...
Learning for life, Romania – Gift code R2
An intelligent nine-year-old from a low-income family is developing new social skills at Talita Kum, Blythswood Care’s afterschool programme in western Romania.
“Maria is very smart and does her homework independently,” says Carm...
“You could have passed Harry off as someone else’s problem. But you didn’t.”
Fundraising manager Jamie McIntosh reports back on Blythswood’s 2019 Family Appeal.
We recently told you Harry’s story.
Harry isn’t like other children. The flat where he lives with his Mum and D...
Just what he needed
Presented with a box of gifts from Blythswood’s 2018 Shoe Box Appeal, a homeless man living on the streets of Sliven, Bulgaria, discovered items that were immediately useful to him.
“Encho was overjoyed with the contents of his box,” says Danny Muscha...
