It’s the update you’ve all been waiting for… how is ABCs just over a year after the big move? Well, what a year it has been! We’ve said hellos, we’ve said goodbyes and we’ve had lots of fun in between. The ground is no longer a mud pit but a safe area to play with sand laid down and concrete painted with all your favourite playground games (who remembers hopscotch and snakes and ladders?) The kids love it, since its completion a few months ago there hasn’t been a single break

If I could use an image to explain what is to be volunteer, I would say that it's to give one thousand and receive one billion. Whatever your talent or the skills you have, we all can be useful and help, it doesn't matter the type of volunteering you chose. But I have to confess, work at ABC's was one of the best chances which has ever been given to me. Why? Because children are endless producers of joy, love and happiness. Indeed, despite their tough lives and all that has h

As you may or may not know, ABCs and Rice provides both education (ABCs) and food (Rice) to children, as part of an incentive to keep the kids coming back to school. This means for one day every two weeks - Rice Day - the volunteers and staff spend a chunk of their day dividing 6 kg portions of rice into plastic bags for them to take home to their families. While undoubtedly happy to be bringing home food to their families, carrying 6 kg of rice as 16 kg munchkin yourself is