June 23, 2025
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Chloe Lovelass
Our Cambodia Trip
After a trip to Cambodia, Ed committed to fundraise for a family he met for repairs and emergency supplies.
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Emergency Response
In order for children to be able to do well in school, children need their immediate needs taken care of. Food, water, shelter and medicine are all essential.
Emergency Response
Sometimes families experience circumstances that prevent them from meeting their immediate needs. The loss of a family member, ill health, house fire, or theft are examples of some of the shocks that families can experience that prevent them from being able to adequately provide for their families.
We work closely together with our in-country partners to support families in these circumstances. Edukid facilitates the in-country partners and provides the material and resources needed to recover from these shocks. Immediate food and water supplies, emergency medical care or medication and fixing leaking roofs are some of the ways that Edukid have responded to these emergencies.
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of emergency food supplies provided at every home visit
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families supported through home visits in the last 3 years
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of emergency home visits have led to ongoing educational support
Morris's Story
On a recent visit to Uganda, one of the groups visited Morris who is 17 years old and who lives at home with his 6 sisters. The children have lost both their parents and are orphans. They now live with their elderly grandparents. The grandmother and sisters sleep in the Banda used for cooking and have chronic chesty coughs from the smoke. The family have little food and can barely afford school fees.
The group visited and felt moved to buy food, mattresses and mosquito nets as emergency short term help for the family. Goats, hens and tools were purchased at the local market to provide an income in the medium term. The group also had the opportunity to plant the family some banana trees as a sustainable source of food, as well as replacing the Banda roof for extra ventilation.
Most importantly, Morris will be supported with his education thanks to members of the group. Education remains the long-term solution to breaking the cycle of poverty from which these families are trying to escape.
Cassandra's Story
During our visit to Peru, students were able to meet and visit the home of Cassandra, a young girl living in Imacita. Cassandra is 18 years old, and lives at home with her two year old baby, siblings and terminally sick grandmother.
In Imacita, a number of challenges, such as teenage pregnancy and early child marriages, prevent young girls from accessing an education. Since Cassandra had her baby, she had to drop out of school and lost her job as there was no one to care for her child. The students learnt that all forms of income within the family has been lost and it has become a daily struggle to afford food. Often the family were living on only 3 meals a week.
As a response to hearing Cassandras story, as short term help the group decided to buy food supplies such as big sacks of beans, rice and baby food. Additional supplies such as sanitary items and soap were purchased for sanitation purposes.
Edukid's emergency response project takes care of the immediate, short term issues. However we believe it is important to empower families in a way that makes them less vulnerable to shocks such as these. The Sustainable Livelihoods project works for long-term, sustainable solutions.
Find out more about our emergency response work
June 23, 2025
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Chloe Lovelass
Ivan’s Story: Reducing Inequalities
In early February 2020 we met Ivan again, only this time inside the school gates of his local Primary school!
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June 20, 2025
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Chloe Lovelass
DofE Fundraising – Charlie’s Story
“I want to raise money for clean, safe water in Uganda. I will be fundraising via a sponsored row & cycle across the distance of Uganda – from Kampala to Gulu, which is 330km.”
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