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Maria comes from a troubled home where she both witnessed and experienced violence. Now that her father has been restrained by law her physical bruises will heal quickly but the emotional damage may remain for much longer. The nine-year-old girl has difficulty in relating both to other children and to adults,
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“I was a body builder, in the gym, lifting weights,” says Mimi, remembering how he became a Christian, nearly 30 years ago. “A friend there invited me and another man to go to church. It was a Baptist church, in Leskovac, where I am now the pastor. “At the same time I started started to attend the Orthodox
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When Sonia moved to the city where she is studying for a science degree, she stayed with her aunt. She went to church with her aunt’s family and was concerned to see that there was no Sunday School for the children. “I discussed it with my aunt and then with the pastor,” Sonia says “He told me that
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Three villages in Sindh province, Pakistan, received a solar water plant, a device which uses the energy of the sun to distil water from a contaminated source, rendering it safe to drink. Blythswood partner organisation Life Through Sports (LTS) took the opportunity to improve the lives of these villagers after a young
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It’s chicken biryani! No wonder Khushi looks happy. The eight-year-old’s placement with a foster family by Blythswood’s partners in Mumbai, India, has ensured that she received three cooked meals every day for the past six years. The happy child is unrecognisable as the malnourished toddler who
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When Cosmin’s girlfriend walked out on him, he found he couldn’t pay the rent living alone. His jobs on building sites were always without contract, uncertain and paid by the day. And as a young person who had spent the first 18 years of his life in Romania’s care system, he had no family to fall back on. “Cosmin