Traditionally on New Year’s Eve, we make resolutions on how we want to improve or change in the coming year. Usually this involves changing our diet, getting more exercise etc. But it doesn’t have to be New Year’s Eve to make a resolution. October of 2013 found Flora Ntaine, then only 11 years old, being… Read more »
Despite the turmoil of the last almost 2 years, students from several schools supported by Grand Circle Foundation shared letters of gratitude to our donors, and we even had a couple of students graduate!
As a thank you to his community for the support he’s received over the last year while unemployed, Daudi a lodge gardener, planted and harvests kale at the Tloma Primary school. “Sukuma wiki” as it is known in Kiswhali is one of the most highly nutritious vegetables, containing Vitamins K, A, E and C along… Read more »
When Sandra Vaughan first met Flora in 2014, she learned that the then 11 year old who’d just lost her mother, had been “sold” off into marriage by her father. Although early marriage is illegal in Kenya, sadly it is still an all too common practice in rural areas. The village chairman, the Maasai Chief… Read more »
Does anyone else feel as though the last year and a half has been a bad dream? However, as we stir from the enforced rest of the last 18 months without travel I’m happy to share that slowly but surely the new headquarters of the Imik Simik Women’s Center in Morocco has been coming… Read more »
STEM studies are important everywhere, and Adelaida has a passion for mathematics, chemistry and physics. If this was anywhere else, it might not be as surprising, but this is Tanzania – where girls education is still not a priority, so every girl we can help get one step closer to their dream – is… Read more »
In honor of Earth Day, we’re pleased to share that two Grand Circle Foundation-supported schools in Tanzania have received Karatu Environmental Office awards for their work planting trees. Since 2012, Grand Circle Foundation has donated $8,732 and planted about 4,320 trees at seven different schools. In this video, take a visit to one of… Read more »
To Jabulani, Lesedi, St Mary’s, and Dinde we go, With two tonnes of Mighty Meal porridge in tow. Feeding almost 2000 children for the next few weeks, Some of the pressure on parents is able to be released. Designed to help students last through the day, A bowl of Mighty Meal each morning… Read more »
The new classroom block at Lesedi Primary School is now complete thanks to Grand Circle Foundation. The final materials for the completion of the building were delivered towards the end of 2020. Due to school holidays in December and then a further lockdown in January this year, work on the building was halted several times…. Read more »
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