In 2016/17 we delivered 12 projects across four countries and celebrated Find Your Feet’s 56th year. We also formed a partnership with Health Poverty Action to ensure our work, and the relationships we have built with communities over the years, will remain strong long into the future.
Peter and Sanisai Kaunhu live with their children in a remote part of Mutoko. For months at a time, more than 50% of families living in here face food shortages and 29% children are malnourished or stunted.
Today is Giving Tuesday - a day to do good stuff for charity.
You have the chance to do something good and have DOUBLE the impact.
How? By donating to Curry for Change.
Because everything you donate to Curry for Change will be matched by our campaign sponsor Natco Foods - so every £1 will become £2 to help families suffering from hunger.
This is a photo of 10 year Tatenda from Zimbabwe. For the first time in his life, Tatenda is able to walk on his own thanks to a walking frame built by his father Costa.
Tatenda is disabled – he is unable to walk without support and suffers from seizures and hydrocephalus - a build-up of fluid on his brain. Until recently he depended on Costa, who is his sole carer, to help him move around.
Since Costa started receiving support from Find Your Feet he has been able to spend less time worrying about food and more time exploring new ways to improve Tatenda’s life.. This includes building him the frame. Now Tatenda can walk and play unaided, giving Costa more time to farm his land. Costa hopes that in the future, he’ll be able to make more walking frames to give other local children more freedom and independence.
We have some important and exciting news to share with you!
We have chosen to work with Health Poverty Action because of our shared values, and the complementary nature of our work. They work with communities in 15 different countries to improve health. They do not see health as simply a medical issue, but instead work to tackle all of the social factors that impact on health, including education, sanitation, nutrition and livelihoods.
In a remote village in India, Gulshan is inspiring her community to demand change.
“I enjoy being a counsellor and getting to work with people in the community. It feels good to use my skills to support people who can’t read or write.”
Our Spring newsletter 2017 looks at our work in India
Every day around 800 women die of preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. 20 per cent of these women are from India.
But with your support, women in rural Chhattisgarh are changing this.
“I feel so much more respected in the community now, people come up and ask me questions all the time.”
With your support, Emily has become a leader in her community.
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