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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”

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”

“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”

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!”

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”

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”

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”

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”

She fell through the compound gate and collapsed on the ground. It had taken her last bit of strength to reach our offices. The other children screamed and our teacher Vedaste came running. He scooped her up and although apprehensive to begin with (if she died in his arms the community would hold him responsible)Continue reading “A Life Saved”

“If this COVID19 comes here Mama Daniel it will finish us all”. These are the words of the community leaders to me as we met to inform and educate the community on the recent virus that has impacted the entire world. With tears threatening to spill over all i could do was nod my head.Continue reading “Covid Impacts Nyarumanga”