Huge Donation from The South African Congregation What a strange year. It was a year of isolation. A year where we were distracted from familiar things, everyday habits, our normal movements, our friends and even family. It has been a year of reflection about what is really necessary and important.
Anais is a Disaster and Emergency Response Team (DART) member and after being in lockdown in London for a while, she began to rethink how she could be spending her time during a global pandemic. In this post, Anais answers some interview questions about how she became a DART member and what’s motivated her to join GAiN’s response to the Corona Virus in Camp Moria.
This year GAiN UK is turning 5 and in celebration of this milestone, we have held an Online Network Gathering and Celebration Event! Thank you to everyone who attended these events. In this post Sarah Patel has summarised some of what GAiN UK has achieved over the past 5 years. This page will give you the opportunity to respond to our Celebration Event and hear a little about what the next fears year have in store.
As we prepared ourselves for what the press is calling “the hell of Moria”, we became more fearful as we read articles, books, saw photos and watched footage of the camp. We prayed for courage, for protection, for provision, for wisdom, for compassion…. We arrived in Lesbos to meet our
Back in October, a joint GAiN team from the UK and Netherlands went to volunteer at Moria, the new arrivals refugee camp in Lesvos, Greece. What followed was a series of events that were neither planned nor expected, but resulted in another team returning in February to assemble large tents
5 Tips for meaningfully donating your stuff I’ll admit it. I’m one of the millions who binge-watched the new Marie Kondo Netflix series ‘Tidying Up’ over the holidays. It hit me at just the right time. My house was filled with clutter, disused baby toys, bills from 2009 and clothes
Danielle shares about how the mission to send desperately needed supplies to refugees in Lesbos began with a little help from Tom Cruise! Whilst out in Greece with a GAiN volunteer team one of Danielle’s friends got in touch to say that he had an idea for how we might be able to get some bigger, better tents to the people who are facing winter with inadequate shelter.
This project started when Lizelle Pieterse (with GAiN South Africa) had a heart to mobilise people within South Africa to respond to the pockets of poverty on their door step. This desire has now grown into a vision to give children who are living on the margins and would otherwise have been forgotten, a fighting chance at life.
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20th May 2020
Rethinking How to Spend Lockdown in a Global Pandemic!
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31st March 2015
Students join project in Romania
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6th May 2020
Camp Moria: A Refuge
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15th May 2020
GAiN UK Turns 5 & Leadership Handover
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31st March 2017
On the road to Damascus
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11th December 2020
Refugee Crises in Greece
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20th May 2020
Rethinking How to Spend Lockdown in a Global Pandemic!
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15th May 2020
GAiN UK Turns 5 & Leadership Handover
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6th May 2020
Camp Moria: A Refuge
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Mission Made Possible: The closing chapter of the ‘Tom Cruise tents’ story
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Moved Into Action
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Refugee Crises in Greece
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Rebuilding the Ca-Ira orphanage in Haiti
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In Search of a Place to Call Home
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Students join project in Romania
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