There is a real energy and vitality in the Haitian people. This, in tandem with a stable, functioning government and effective external support, is the real key to successful development
12 January 2012
Children inside their new GOAL-built shelter in Haiti
Since we introduced the REFLECT programme in Sudan, many thousands of previously illiterate women and their families have benefitted
15 December 2011
Two women taking part in GOAL's REFLECT
Identification of early warning signs in pregnant women is essential. Maternal deaths here – at 2,000 fatalities per 100,000 births - are among the highest in the world
3 November 2011
Women and children
Suddenly, my possessions jumped off the shelves, as a small earthquake rippled through Kenya’s Rift Valley. It was my first night as a humanitarian aid worker.
28 September 2011
“One night eight years ago, I found myself lying on a bed in Burundi, East Africa, listening to mortars pass overhead and watching arcs of tracer fire light up the night sky. Suddenly, my possessions jumped off the shelves, as a small earthquake rippled through Kenya’s Rift Valley. It was my first night as a humanitarian aid worker.
'Our team is seeing more and more burial sites appearing around the refugee camps every day'
11 August 2011
GOAL's Darren Hanniffy at the refugee
In this part of Uganda, the situation is appalling; out of every 100 people, just 26 have access to clean drinking water
12 April 2011
Young children often have to miss school lessons to collect
Two of our beneficiaries sadly passed away before we had a chance to finish their new home, but thank God their children now have a roof above their head
9 March 2011
My name is Tyche Hofman, and this is my first time blogging for GOAL. I’m Dutch and have been active in the field of development since 2001, living all over Asia and currently in Uganda.
The people realise that if there is to be any chance of an escape from the perpetual cycle of poverty...then it will only come by education.
8 February 2011
Students at the GOAL-supported Silver Plate school in the
"It is sometimes a source of shame not to be able to read or write..."
15 January 2011
By Simon Roughneen in Shertiu, Blue Nile State, Sudan:Zainab Malik is thirty years old, but her six weeks spent so far in GOAL’s REFLECT learning programme is her first experience of a classroom of any kind.
One year on, we must keep Haiti firmly in the spotlight
11 January 2011
In a few seconds on the afternoon of January 12th, Port-au-Prince was almost completely flattened by a massive earthquake. More than 220,000 people were dead and another 300,000 lay crushed and injured by the falling debris. 1.3 million survivors were left without a home.