We had a lot of fun on Friday taking a lesson with year five at Horringer Court Middle School - talking about life for street children in the Philippines and our plans for the House of Joshua children's home.

They asked a lot of really good questions about the implications of living rough on the streets in poverty as well as about bugs, creepy-crawlies, snakes and the like!

This forms part of an ongoing plan to develop cultural links between the school and the House of Joshua so that the children can learn about life in other countries. It will also form part of the middle school's enterprise project - to raise money for charitable causes.

Later in the day the children did some more work based on our talk, which they were able to share with parents who came into the school in the afternoon.

Here's a couple of the beautiful posters that they made (the pictures are a bit fuzzy as they were taken on a mobile phone).

If anybody else in the Bury St Edmunds area would like us to do a talk please give us a ring or send us an email

An Amazing Year- Ahead and Behind

What an amazing year 2010 turned out to be!

We have just had our annual general meeting. The Trustees Annual Report made exciting reading. During 2010 our income went up by an astonishing 73%. Grants made to various beneficiaries, including our school sponsorship program, were up by about 10% and over £12,000 has been set aside for building the 'House of Joshua' children's home (construction work is due to begin in earnest on this project very shortly).

The first of our University Students graduated in 2010 and we have another two due to graduate this March. A further four students are currently engaged on university degree courses, with several more younger children also able to attend school thanks to their generous sponsors.

We were able to supply books, computers tools and medical equipment that enabled a significant number of people to learn new skills, find new ways of earning a living and improve their health. Many lives have been changed as a result.

None of this would have been possible without the help of our many friends and supporters. A huge thank you to every single one of you!

If 2010 was an amazing year 2011 looks to be even more so, particularly with the dispatch of a 40 foot ships container of medical aid bound for Cagayan De Oro City and Camiguin Island Province in early March. We anticipate that the equipment we are supplying will directly impact the lives of many thousands of people as we help them to access affordable medical care and improve the general health of the local inhabitants.

We hope and pray that this container will be the first of many.

You can read the 2010 Trustees Annual Report here