In 2023, we moved to our Involvement Centre, where we pack, sort and send aid to our partners in the UK and abroad. In 2024, we sent our second Benin LIFE trip team to Benin, helping set up deep capped wells for the villagers.
2021 was when we sent aid to the refugees in Bosnia & Herzegovina. 2022 marked the start of the Ukraine crisis and our response to the crisis by sending food trucks and aid donations.
In 2019 we continued our relief efforts on the refugee camps in Greece, in Camp Moria, Lesvos. As the world went into lockdown in 2020, we continued safe distance packing in parks
In 2017, we continued to support people in Iraq, Syria, Greece and Romania by sending finances, physical aid items, and volunteers on projects. 2018 we took a massive step forward in establishing a logistics hub in the UK and increasing our capacity to send aid overseas by acquiring our first storage container.
GAiN was launched in 2015 and started sending teams to Haiti and Romania and collected aid for Iraq. In 2016, we continued to engage the people of the UK by partnering with Agapé Students and Newday Festival to collect aid for Iraq.
As a Turkish student in Cardiff, I’ve always sought ways to contribute to the community and make a positive impact. My recent volunteering experience with Global Aid Network (GAiN) UK offered me just that opportunity, and it was nothing short of inspiring.
Two years of warin Ukraine As we pass the second anniversary of the Ukraine invasion, GAiN continues to work hard to bring relief and hope to the people of Ukraine. People’s lives continue to be hard as they face the many challenges of war. Here is the story of one couple
On the move in Morocco This past September, Morocco was rocked by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 2,900 people and injured approximately 5,500 others. The earthquake struck the western side of the country, damaging remote villages in the Atlas Mountains as well as parts of the historic city
Eymen’s story The earthquake is not to the only thing going on in peoples’ lives – before the disaster people are going through their own “normal” struggles like illnesses. Can you imagine facing a natural disaster on top of that? For Eymen the consequences of the earthquake were devastating. This natural
Fresh Bread and a flat football One of the DART (Disaster Assistance Response Team) members tells the story of a family they met while setting up tents for those affected by the quake in Turkey in February. ‘Tulay is 32 years old and a mother of three chatty boys. We met
A flourishing Community Health Centre lvie is the head medical doctor at the health centre in the village of Woria in Northern Benin. She runs a team of nurses to provide health services to the community. This team, more than anyone, knows how essential clean water is to health. Clinic staff
Life keeps swinging in the midst of rubble and ruins A colourful playground stands firm in between of waves of rubble from collapsed buildings in Antakya. For Beste, now the only child around these streets, this is a miracle that can keep her mind and heart from the traumatic experience she
Ukraine: One year on… On the 24th February, 2023, it will be a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. Thousands of lives lost and still the war continues. Gruelling and emotionally heart wrenching will not adequately describe what the Ukrainians have been through. Lives turned upside down, cities and homes destroyed, their
Aspiring for a Healthy Future Before Global Aid Network (GAiN) provided a deep-capped water well to Kpakpalakpenou, Togo, the children and young people fetched water from a nearby open well for their families. This water was dirty and caused a lot of sickness within the village. Children who were sick, naturally,
Life-giving water in Benin Director of GAiN UK, Frikkie Greyling, spent 10 days in Benin experiencing the Water For Life Initiative. The team saw each stage of a well’s development by going to different villages and got to help with building the concrete base for a well. Emma spoke with Frikkie