“Now we’re doing BUSINESS!” 💪🏾 Thanks to your donations to the #LivingwithWildlife project, Aisha and 38,000 people have been supported to find alternative livelihoods to poaching, in and around Uganda’s oldest National Park: Murchison Falls.
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Can people and nature thrive together? 🌱 Land for Life is showing us that it’s possible, by supporting over 27,000 people through community-owned conservation. 🙌
Follow John Kamanga, showing you the various facets of this ambitious project: brnw.ch/21wIx6v #UKAidMatch
“When they come to us and tell us that, ‘we are now in good health,’ then I feel proud being a nurse.”
Thanks to a 3 yr project funded by British people & the UK government, we were able to support training for 339 nurses.
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Join us for a week of inspiring stories from #LightUpLives Zimbabwe!
Meet Aquila who loves to make clothes for children in her community. Delighted to see again she said: “When they took off the bandage, I screamed! I was very excited.”
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Meet the ophthalmic clinical officers transforming Nsanje, Malawi 🇲🇼
Alinafe and Lloyd are two OCOs who have helped countless patients. Today, they tell us about their motivation and working together 💛
Read more about our programme with #UKAidMatch 👇
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Thanks to your support, #LightUpLives Zimbabwe has trained over a thousand health care workers and community volunteers so far!
Felistas, Project Assistant, tells us “I have seen lives change in a positive way.”
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“Now, I will ask people to visit the hospital for eye conditions.” Nelly, Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe many people turn to traditional healers, trying anything in the hope it will restore their sight. Light Up Lives is helping to change that!
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Early in the morning, patients are rejoicing after having cataract surgeries to restore their sight.
They are singing words inspired by Bartimaeus in the Bible: “Lord I want to see!”
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In northern #Mozambique , #climatechange is making people affected by #leprosy ever more vulnerable to crop failure. But your support for our Unconditional Appeal in 2021, where your donations were matched by the UK government, is helping communities to change this. #UKAidMatch
The Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine appeal has now raised £400m. The UK government has doubled £25m of these donations from the great British public through #UKAidMatch .
Watch @DECAppeal’s Saleh Saeed report on how this support is helping people in need across Ukraine. 👇
Thank you! Due to the incredible generosity of the U.K. public our Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal has raised over £52 million in the first two days, including £5 million in #UkAidMatch
DEC charities are providing urgent aid now.
Please donate: dec.org.uk
Welcome to Karamoja, Uganda 🇺🇬
Ophthalmologist Gladys Atto has been working with us in the region since 2015, most recently on a project funded by the UK government's #UKAidMatch .
See how we are helping to transform the lives of the 1.4 million people in the region 👇
Wells Mvona is Cataract Surgeon with our partner, Nkhoma Hospital. He tells us why he thinks it is so important to provide sight-restoring cataract surgery, & the impact for individuals, their families & their communities.
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Henry Juta, Chief Clinical Officer at Nkhotakota District Hospital, is training to become a cataract surgeon. Here he tells us what it will mean for him & the community.
Share to show your support for Henry and the team!
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Back home in the afternoon, Dani looks out over his farm & the hillside. “I thought that place was no longer there. It was as if it has disappeared... I was not able to see those hills, now I can see them clearly.”
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Thread / Project update: Our Future Forest project in Ethiopia is midway through, and it's good news!
With your support and matched funding from #UKAidMatch , communities have been working hard to protect their forest, tackle the #ClimateCrisis & contribute to the #GreatGreenWall
Elizabeth's deteriorating sight meant she struggled to see at school.
Thankfully, through our programme with #UKAidMatch , we were able to train ophthalmic clinical officers to ensure that people like Elizabeth get the treatment they need.
Read more 👇
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We have launched an urgent appeal for Turkey and Syria.
If you can, please donate today.
The UK Government will match donations from the public pound-for-pound up to £5 million, meaning your support will go even further. #UKAidMatch
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