August 2018

I do hope that everyone in the UK has enjoyed the hot sunny weather. We have been truly blessed.     We have also been able to plant several more fruit tree orchards over the summer – 6 with pastors around Bobo in Burkina Faso and a further 5 with our partners in...

July 2018

Earlier this year we were contacted by the High Commissioner of Barbuda to ask for our help in rebuilding this Caribbean island. Barbuda was devastated by Hurricane Irma in September 2017 and most of the buildings were completely destroyed. This included the...

June 2018

June 2018 We are all very excited at Jacob’s Well Appeal as we start the maternal and baby unit at Ouagadougou. When we first visited Burkina Faso in 2016 we saw the shell of a hospital which had run out of funds several years previously. It stands beside a...

May 2018

May 2018 Hi everyone! April passed in a blur with wedding plans etc. It seems like ages when we were in Wa in Ghana.                 We travelled to Wa from Accra via the overnight public bus. They travel in convoys of three with armed guards on the first bus, mainly...

March 2018

How the time flies! Alistair and I went to Ghana in February, returning at the beginning of this month to find that our daughter was going to get married at the end of April – we did have a sneaky idea that this was the plan – which is my only excuse for not writing...

December 2017

December 2017 As we are rapidly approaching Christmas have a thought for our valiant volunteers working in our warehouse. It is very cold at the moment and they are struggling to keep warm. We have plans to site two porta-cabins, one either side of the warehouse, so...