Each year on May 28th, Menstrual Hygiene Day is observed to highlight good menstrual hygiene practices and to raise awareness about the importance of access to products. Together with other organisations YADA is working hard to give advice and support to women and girls on this taboo subject. The majority of girls miss school every month because they don’t haveContinue reading “Dignity Not Disgust”
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Let There Be Light
Electricity is something I took for granted in my childhood. We had a few blackouts which made for great excitement that we could miss school for the day but nothing more. In BURUNDI, having little or no electricity is the norm for most people. Recently a few of the teenage children in YADA asked if they could stayContinue reading “Let There Be Light”
Seedlings
“That’s it, that’s what we need In YADA” exclaimed Ezechiel on our way to work one morning. I couldn’t see what he was pointing at, all I could see was a field with a grass shack. “ITUTA, ITUTA that’s what we need”, he continued. I know my dear husband well enough to not ask lots ofContinue reading “Seedlings”
Live!
Hallelujah, we are so excited to finally launch our new website! This helps give YADA further credibility and another platform to share all the amazing work that’s happening. We are deeply thankful to our good friend, Carley Serwat, for her hard work and dedication to producing a quality website with sensitivity and care. Please visitContinue reading “Live!”
Oink Oink
At a regular community meeting in December 2021 people asked if YADA would help them buy pigs as a way of helping their families. It is so good when ideas come for the families because they have already thought through the process and automatically take more ownership and responsibility. We told the community we wouldContinue reading “Oink Oink”
Training and Dancing
A recurring request from many of the women at YADA is for a loan to start a small business (such as selling tomatoes, charcoal, vegetables). So many organisations give out these loans without any training or accountability and the majority of these small business fail. In February Ezechiel invited all of those seeking a loanContinue reading “Training and Dancing”
Family
What a wonderful Christmas celebration we had at YADA this year. Our 8th Christmas together. It was such a joy to share food together, watch the children perform their dances that they had been practicing and then send every family home with food packages for three days. What a great God we serve! (Top leftContinue reading “Family”
Truly He Has Listened
What a challenging, exciting and encouraging few months we have had. We have so much to share with you and want to begin by thanking you for all your love, prayers and support for the ministry. We were so thankful to take our staff team on retreat over the summer (pictures above) where we reflectedContinue reading “Truly He Has Listened”
Not Abandoned
When it comes to writing updates, the temptation is to share all the positives because it makes for better reading….right? However, I know life has been really tough for most of the world over the last year, and so I thought I would share about the hard stuff here and the challenges we have faced.Continue reading “Not Abandoned”
Change
Another big change has come to YADA – we have a new teacher, Emelyne. She is a great asset to the team and the kids love her. All of the children we serve attend various government schools which she visits every Friday. From visiting the schools and home visits she identified that as well asContinue reading “Change”