“When you decide to do a project in a foreign country, where do you begin?” we are asked. “We look for a local partner,” we respond. “But how do you know who to trust?” It’s A Good Question People who wish to support our work are right to have concerns that we might be deceived […]

A simple idea we began in our Uganda projects has been so successful that we are now hoping to replicate it in Sierra Leone. What Is The Problem We Are Trying To Fix? Even before the Ukraine war pushed up grain prices, 26% of children in Sierra Leone had high levels of stunted growth because of malnutrition. Since Russia […]

When Network for Africa set out to provide mental health support in northern Uganda, we had a specific goal: we wanted to train local people to give trauma counselling to survivors of the devastating civil war. It quickly became clear that no matter how successful we were in helping people to manage their trauma, we also needed to reach […]