Stories

Oasis Workshop, Bethlehem
In the dusty refugee camps, towns and villages around Bethlehem, people with mental disabilities can often be shunned and...

New Life from Dried Grass in Swaziland
“This epidemic is creating a nation of widows,” said an NGO worker in Swaziland, speaking of the AIDS crisis...

Hope in Rural Cameroon
There are between 1 million and 4 million child labourers in Cameroon aged between 5-14. Some of them work...

Hunan Ethnic Crafts
Meiman, of China, knows the meaning of fair trade first hand. For almost a year, Meiman worked in a...

Qinghai Earthquake
On 14th April 2010, an earthquake measuring around 7 on the Richter scale shattered the lives of people in...

Katya’s Story
When Katya* was found by local schoolteacher Eva, she was filthy and infested with lice, living without parents in...

Bombs to Jewellery
Young Heang, just three or four months of age, did not enjoy the fun of babyhood that is the...

L’Occitane fights blindness
It is a shocking truth, but 8 out of every 10 people with sight problems should be able to...

Drug rehab centre – Kazakhstan
Intoxicated people are a part of the fabric of life on the streets of Shymkent, Kazakhstan. “Most people ignore happy...