Nasko is a clever nine-year-old, full of energy and eager to learn. But when the schools in Bulgaria were closed by the COVID pandemic he was severely disadvantaged. Classes went online but Nasko had no internet at home, and no phone, laptop or tablet. A year ago, Blythswood sponsored a project by Bulgarian
Eight months of training in a sewing skills programme supported by Blythswood Care have equipped a young woman in Zimbabwe to earn a wage and support her younger sibling through school. Tariro was still in primary school when her father died of tuberculosis. Soon she found herself helping her mother doing domestic work and even working in
A mother who cares for a son with cerebral palsy is able to face the winter with glass in her windows once again – all thanks to the gifts of Blythswood supporters which paid to repair the damage done to her home by the Russian bombardment of Irpin, Ukraine. Larissa was reduced to cooking for her family outside over an open fire in March.
It’s not unusual for the same vessels to call at Invergordon several times during the cruise ship season. One crew member seemed especially pleased to receive an English bible at the Seafarers’ Centre in Invergordon Parish Church but it wasn’t until a subsequent visit that he explained why. Pedro* had been an atheist before he
Alfred Chofong has been pastor of a growing church in Ndu in the North West Region of Cameroon. He is one of many Christian workers in Africa and Asia to benefit from grants of Christian books from Blythswood Care. Some books are second-hand, some are unsold stock from our charity shops and some are bought
When Vlad joined Blythswood’s after-school programme a year ago he demanded a lot of attention. The 11-year-old and his mother had just moved to Jimbolia from another village in western Romania and he was suffering unresolved emotional distress from learning that his father had died. “His parents separated when Vlad was very