It’s been a year since Burundi suffered the worst flooding in decades, with more than 40,000 hectares of crops destroyed and over 19,000 homes damaged or lost. That was on top of the rocketing cost of food and national fuel shortages. We had to do something, so we put out a crisis appeal. One year on, I want to share a story of a life impacted thanks to the generosity of the GLO community! Clement was one of the 300,000 people impacted by the floods. He lives with his wife in Nyanza Lac, a fishing town near the Tanzanian border. […]
Category: Health
Good Health this Christmas
Widow Alice’s 6-year-old daughter died because she didn’t have the equivalent of the cost of a Starbucks coffee… how could that be? Her daughter was sick, and Alice had no money to get her treated. She asked her neighbours for a loan, but they were likewise destitute. So she set about making a clay pot as quickly as possible to sell, but during those lost hours, her daughter’s illness proved fatal. I’m shaking my head in disbelief as I write this… it is so wrong! We can stop something like that from happening again this Christmas for 5,000 of the […]