Stories from Our Communities

These are accounts of the work from inside it — the workshops, the school visits, the orphanage and hospital outreach, the clean-ups and the households. They are written by the people who were there.

How we decide what to publish

We publish stories about people only with their informed consent, explained in a language they understand, and consent may be withdrawn. Where a story concerns a child, consent is obtained from both the child and their parent or guardian, and images are never published in a way that could identify a child's home or school.

Survivors of gender-based violence are never identified, regardless of consent given. Circumstances change, and a published image or account cannot be recalled. Some of the most significant work this Foundation does will therefore never appear on this page, and that is the correct trade rather than a limitation.

Why we tell them at all

A programme described in the abstract is easy to fund and easy to ignore. A specific account of one afternoon in one school makes the work legible — to donors deciding where to give, to partners deciding whether to work with us, and to the communities themselves, who see how they are being represented to the outside world.

Our value of community ownership commits us to sharing findings about a community with that community before external audiences see them. That applies to stories as much as to research.