News - December 2009

I spotted today an article on the BBC News website by Chris Rogers - a reporter with a longstanding association with Romania and, in particular, Romanian orphans. What intererested me in what he had written was his observations of the transformation that has taken... Read on

Hannah and Liz will post their final blog soon. Here is a photo of the gift we were each given by the SOS Village and School - an angel playing a harp carved out of local olive wood. This one is photographed in my kitchen on a piece of Palestinian embroidery made... Read on

As mentioned in an earlier posting, our Advisory Panel meets annually to reflect on recent activities, review the ever-changing contexts of our work and to use a clinical focus to help steer our future direction. We now have a date set for our next meeting: Saturday... Read on

The six-week skill-sharing project in Bethlehem has now ended and Liz Coombes and Hannah McCabe have returned safely to the UK. We can't thank them enough for the enormous investment they've made in the children of the SOS Village and School. The next stage of... Read on

Hannah: Our last few days are proving to be extremely busy as we continue to deliver sessions at the SOS School and in the Village. By now however, many of our trainees are able to lead the sessions by themselves which is great for us to see and reassures our... Read on