Team time in Bekoiji

Ethiopia Thursday, 04 April 2013

Saturday saw the arrival of a new team of volunteers at our Bethany School and Children’s Village in Ethiopia. The team were swarmed by children as...

Elsa walks tall

Ethiopia Wednesday, 03 April 2013

‘‘I never dreamed in my life that I would get comfortable shoes for my leg”, said Elsa, aged 12. “But God bless Stand by Me, I got the shoes!’’ The...

Rice seed promotes self-sufficiency in Burma

Myanmar Thursday, 28 March 2013

Our Sofia Home in Tamu recently enjoyed a wonderful harvest and the children were overjoyed by the collection of rice! As the rice is harvested it ...

Nail bar opens for Stand by Me

Friday, 15 March 2013

Ruth and Courtney, two young girls at Carnalbanagh Primary School in Northern Ireland, were so taken by their new sponsored child that they decided...

Attention Lord Sugar

Ethiopia, Thursday, 07 March 2013

Caitlin, a pupil at Eden Primary School in Carrickfergus, showed great entrepreneurial skills recently when after hearing about the work of Stand b...

Esther: an inspiration

Myanmar, Friday, 01 March 2013

From a baby who was abandoned at birth and later found out to be HIV, into a confident, healthy and talented young girl in our children’s home in B...

Sponsored Silence = Sponsored Child

Ethiopia, Thursday, 21 February 2013

Lucy, a year 5 pupil from Larne, Northern Ireland, felt compelled to take action when she heard in her school assembly that money was running low f...

New children's village in Kalymayo, Burma

Myanmar, Wednesday, 30 January 2013

We are excited to share that the dream of building a brand new children’s village in Kalymayo in Burma has become a reality and in 2012, the kids f...

Fulfilling dreams

Myanmar, Tuesday, 22 January 2013

“Thank you very, very much you support me. Unless you help me, I could not study. I don’t know how to say but I can say Thank You so much and God b...

Giving something back

Thursday, 17 January 2013

Christmas was a time of giving as well as receiving for the boys in our Rehoboth Home in Guatemala, as they visited the local elderly people’s care...

Christmas in Colombia

Colombia, Wednesday, 09 January 2013

The children in our school in Guacamayal, Colombia, had a wonderful Christmas celebration thanks to the generosity of local folk who had heard abou...

The best present of all

Ethiopia, Friday, 21 December 2012

Ten years old and severely disabled after being injured by a cluster bomb, Grum could only dream of going to school. That was until Stand by Me hea...

Stand by... almost there...