Irrigation well alleviates hunger in Zimbabwe
A borehole funded by Blythswood’s gift catalogue is helping to feed students at the sewing programme run by Streams of Hope, Zimbabwe, and benefits the local community.
Burst pipes plunge low-income household into crisis
January 2025. It’s cold in Inverness. Foodbank manager Lorna Dempster takes a call from someone in Highland Council’s housing management team.
Life skills training helps young adults find their way to work
When Gruia’s first job didn’t work out, he realised he needed help to start again. For seven months he had been working in a canteen but soon realised that he was being exploited.
Food package helps mother and son to cope with ill health and disability
Agnes Csiszer runs Blythswood’s Basis project which assists low-income families in and around Cluj-Napoca, Romania. A year ago, she was in a supermarket carpark when she saw an elderly lady begging for food.
Poultry helps family of peanut seller
Two hundred birds have been distributed to nine community groups in a low-income district of Bujumbura, Burundi’s largest city.