When Aanya* was 12 years old and had lost both parents, an uncle sold her into the sex trade in Mumbai for 10,000 rupees. Twenty two years later she is still there and her number one priority is to make sure that none of her three daughters ends up in the same profession. For this reason she has sent the eldest, who is now 14, back to her own home village.
Shamu barely scraped a living for his family by growing maize on land he rented from other people. When June’s catastrophic floods reached his village in Pakistan’s Sindh province, even this precarious livelihood was swept away. With the whole village’s cultivated crops destroyed and livestock killed, Shamu and his family were sheltering by a canal when relief workers from Pakistan Sunday School Ministry (PSSM)
Jim and Isobel* were referred to Highland Foodbank by the Community Care Team when recent increases in the cost of food and fuel left them struggling to get by on their basic pensions. “We gave them the immediate help with food which they needed,” says Lorna Dempster who manages Blythswood’s Highland Foodbank. “We were also able to them in the direction of Highland
Two hundred families in a village in Andhra Pradesh have access to clean water on their doorstep thanks to a new bore-well sponsored by Blythswood Care and organised by India Bible Literature. Women from Ayyaluru used to have to walk a mile to the nearest municipal supply and return with their brightly coloured water jars balanced on their heads. But the water they carried home was only accessible for a short time
When the factory in which Isabella worked closed down, two months after the Russian invasion, it wasn’t a surprise. But it did confront her with a difficult choice. With two young children to support, and divorced from their father, she need the income to survive. A notice on social media about a refugee centre in Sibiu, Romania, gave her the opportunity to remove her family to
The decision to flee from home in time of war is always traumatic, but especially so when one of the family suffers from disability. With their 11-year-old daughter Polina in a wheelchair, it was only at the last minute that Sasha and Nastia decided to evacuate their family from Kherson. By that time Russian soldiers were already in the city. They bundled their children into the car and set off for the Moldovan border, but were stopped by