Mum suffers from schizophrenia and dad is an alcoholic but grandma is always there, to cook meals for them, to care for them and to make sure that the older two go to school. Their village home in northwest Romania is an unfinished house without adequate floors or ceilings and their parents’ inability
Iqbal Masih and his family suffered the total destruction of their home in Hyderabad, Sindh province, when the River Indus burst its banks last summer, causing one of the most catastrophic floods ever to hit Pakistan. Support from Blythswood’s disaster relief fund enabled partner organisation Life Through
By the time Armando arrives at Blythswood’s after-school programme, he is starving. For this 12-year-old, the cooked mid-day meal provided by Talita Kum in Jimbolia, Romania, is a life-saver. At home he lives with his dad and three older brothers. His mother walked out on the family two years ago and then his
Minka is poor even by the standards of the Roma community in which she lives, in southern Bulgaria. With three children to feed and no husband to support her, she depends on welfare payments which equate to about £94 per month. A gift of chickens sponsored by Blythswood’s gift catalogue is providing some
An elderly lady was referred to foodbank by a medical team in Edinburgh when they realised she was struggling to provide food for herself and was severely underweight. “Leah* had experienced a close bereavement in traumatic circumstances,” says Miriam Montgomery who manages Blythswood’s SE Edinburgh
ISHIMWE. In the Kirundi language it means thanksgiving. It is the name of a weekly broadcast on Friday afternoons by a Christian radio station in Burundi supported by Blythswood Care. And it has become a reality in the life of Bertrand, who thanks God that he has been set free from destructive habits of drug