Stories from the Field

End-of-Financial-Year Appeal Before clean water arrived at the village of Nkowe-Mafuriko in Tanzania, people would wake up each morning to a life where time, energy and resources were stretched dangerously thin. Instead of spending precious hours of their day farming the fields for food, villagers would have to wake up

Fresh Bread and a Flat Football One of the DART (Disaster Assistance Response Team) members tells the story of a family they met while setting up tents for those affected by the quake in Turkey in February.   ‘Tulay is 32 years old and a mother of three chatty boys.

Sharing God’s Love in the Philippines Benny Wayman has been a faithful volunteer at GAiN for almost a decade. Her latest trip to the Philippines was her seventh Medical Mission with GAiN and her third to the Philippines. As a retired nurse she plays an important role in our medical

Family in Unlikely Places Tyler C., one of the team members of the DART Team, recounts his interaction with a family in Turkey who lost their home because of the earthquake. “Are you afraid of another earthquake?” I asked 10-year-old Taner* from Iskenderun. “Maybe after the first three – but

Saving Lives at Birth After travelling to Tanzania to visit rural health centres last month, Jessica Starkins, WASH project manager – community health, shares one of her experiences from the trip.   “It was an incredible experience getting to finally visit the health centres GAiN has been working in for

The Elephant Village This month, Jessica Starkins visited GAiN’s Water for Life Initiative projects in Tanzania. She met with our field teams to conduct training sessions with them, conduct village visits and also did reporting on the Saving Lives at Birth project at three rural health centers.   Read as