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25-Feb-2021

Pennies From Heaven

I’ll get straight to the point. A generous fan of Network for Africa will match donations up to a total of £15,000/$21,000. Please consider supporting us by clicking here. Why support us? Network for Africa may be small, but we achieve a great deal with modest resources because we don’t waste money on a fancy […]

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03-Feb-2021

Getting By With A Little Help From My Friends

Something remarkable has been happening at our counselling sessions in Uganda: people who attend are spontaneously forming their own self-help groups. When they meet at our sessions, they find they have much in common, and they are creating a whole new network of people who support each other, sharing experiences and discussing future plans. Aid […]

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14-Jan-2021

Exploding The Myths Of What Lies Beneath

“There is something underneath” is a comment heard too often in Sierra Leone, when people encounter someone with epilepsy or mental health issues or an Ebola survivor. What they mean is that there must be a demon or witch causing the affliction; a curse rather than a medical condition. Not that the rest of the […]

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14-Dec-2020

One Good Thing About 2020

Most people reading this will be glad to consign 2020 to the “deleted items” box, or, for those of you who now live by Zoom, to push the “leave meeting” icon on this year. But there has been one silver lining: a heightened appreciation of the problems caused by depression, stress and trauma. People across […]

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26-Nov-2020

A History Of Orphans

Ever since the novels Vanity Fair (1847) and Jane Eyre (1848), the orphan has been a standard fixture in literature. From Oliver Twist to Harry Potter, via Tom Sawyer and David Copperfield, readers have followed the difficult lives of vulnerable young people as they are forced to make their way in the world. Over the […]

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07-Oct-2020

Strong As A Lion – Sierra Leone

Covid-19 is a new experience for most of us, but for Sierra Leone, it is a recurring nightmare. First, the small West African nation endured a long, vicious, devastating civil war, in which rebels amputated people’s hands as punishment. Then in 2014 came Ebola. Now, it is Covid-19. It’s hard to get a clear picture […]

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24-Sep-2020

A Profile In Courage & Determination

These are challenging times, right across the globe. A suicide help-line in southern California reports that in March it had 21 phone calls, while in April, after a few weeks of lockdown, it had 1,800. Even without a pandemic, our trauma counsellors in northern Uganda cope with difficult circumstances in the aftermath of a devastating […]

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12-Aug-2020

Taking A Deep Breath

Most of us have a friend or relative who treats us like a free counselling service: we do our best to be attentive when they want to talk about their problems. Yet, in some cases, it isn’t a two way street. Perhaps they aren’t keen on listening when we want to vent, or they take […]

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06-Aug-2020

Back From The Brink

Unless you live in rural Africa, it is hard to grasp just how difficult it is to find affordable medical help when you need it. However, people in the developed world who are without sufficient health insurance may understand how quickly life can spiral out of control when you become unwell. The same applies in […]

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01-Jul-2020

Rwandan Women Holding The Family Together During The Pandemic

Often, when someone from the global north asks what Network for Africa does, we are told, with a wistful smile, that people in Europe and America could also benefit from the services we offer. This is true now, during the pandemic, more than ever. We train people in Africa, living in difficult circumstances, with simple […]

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Recent News

  • Pennies From Heaven 25-Feb-2021
  • Getting By With A Little Help From My Friends 03-Feb-2021
  • Exploding The Myths Of What Lies Beneath 14-Jan-2021
  • One Good Thing About 2020 14-Dec-2020
  • A History Of Orphans 26-Nov-2020

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