Dover smART Project was founded in 2013 to provide opportunities for disadvantaged children in Dover to take part in a wide range of creative activities and experiences to boost their confidence, enhance their well-being, raise their aspirations and widen their outlook on the world. The charity soon evolved and began similar work with other groups, such as the people without a home and hospice patients, using art and creativity to support their various needs.

In 2019, 10 million new people fell ill with TB, even though the disease is preventable and curable. With the emergence of COVID-19, respiratory illness and treatment are more important than ever.

APOPO’s TB-detection rats screen tens of thousands of sputum samples collected from TB clinics every year. As a result, many TB patients that initially were diagnosed as negative have been identified, started treatment and stopped the spread of the disease.

Word Forest works closely with partners in Kenya on the Tulinde Bongo Project, taking place in the Aberdares Forest. This amazing project covers a range of activities - reforestation, education and community engagement - to help protect and save the Mountain Bongo as well as play a part in mitigating climate change.  

The Mountain Bongo is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.  Part of the planned project includes planting thousands of Kenyan Forestry Service recommended saplings within the Aberdares Forest. Reforestation of the area is essential to create the environment that they thrive on, allowing them the space to return and hopefully grow in numbers.

Your donation will help Word Forest add to the 5000 saplings they have already planted, creating increased new habitat, and provide the shade and cover needed for the species growth. Thank you.

These beautiful hearts are a comforting gift in memory of their baby.

We have specially selected these items to help parents who have babies in special care.  We have chosen these items as they promote bonding with the baby and also can take some of the stress off of parents who will need to 'dash out' and purchase essential care items.  

Uganda hosts the largest number of refugees in Africa (1.4 million), and 58% of them are children under 18 years old. The basic right to education of refugees is often denied. Living in a foreign country fleeing violence and persecution creates an extremely difficult situation for learning. Where education can continue, it is often of poor quality; in Uganda, this is affecting hundreds of thousands of children. The majority of schools do not have the infrastructure to accommodate overcrowded classrooms and the basic needs of children. Overcrowding is the hardest obstacle for teachers and students alike. This makes the situation for both teacher and learner almost impossible. Infrastructure needs to be adequate in order to make schools safer and more accessible, to all children affected by conflict. We aim to provide sufficient space, desk and learning materials to improve primary school children's learning outcomes and secure their academic future toward secondary level.

Windle International empowers people to make lasting change in their own lives, in their communities and in wider society. We do this by creating access to quality education and training across East Africa and the Horn of Africa for refugees, communities affected by conflict, and those who have been marginalised in society. We believe that positive change is achieved, and peaceful societies are created, when the people who have been most affected by conflict are empowered to become change-makers in their communities. In Uganda, we have been recognized Best International Education Humanitarian NGO in the country, in both 2019 and 2020.

Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps, located in an arid environment in the northern part of Kenya, are host to over 508,033 refugees and asylum seekers, from which more than the half are children. The camps are located in the north-western region of the country, which has the highest levels of poverty and lowest performance indicators relating to access to quality educational opportunities. 84% of the population in Turkana County, and 73% of the population of Garissa County, lives below the poverty line. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in the country, schools are closing at each pick outbreak and children do not have tools to follow home-learning. With the provision of solar radio, secondary school children will be able to follow live classes all year long.

Windle International empowers people to make lasting change in their own lives, in their communities and in wider society. We do this by creating access to quality education and training across East Africa and the Horn of Africa for refugees, communities affected by conflict, and those who have been marginalised in society. Windle International Kenya manages secondary schools in Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps as the lead implementing partner of the UN refugee agency, and runs a range of quality educational programmes and scholarships aimed at improving the educational outcomes and ultimately contributing to the creation of peaceful and durable communities.

The people we support love to take part in art activities of all sorts and we regularly go through lots of supplies. It would be great if you could support us in purchasing some extra equipment; things like paint, pens, pencils, easels, canvses, clay, tools etc.