by Sarah Stone | Oct 7, 2013 | Opinion
In a location sandwiched between bars in the middle of Bangkok’s red light district, 10 Thai women have left prostitution and are learning to bake. The sweet scents of fresh focaccia and soft white bread wafted through the air recently as Sarah Brown, a BMS...
by Sarah Stone | Sep 12, 2013 | Opinion
“Everywhere was dark. It was like laying down in the grave,” says Mona (names have been changed throughout to protect identities), a victim of the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh. “We thought it was the end of our lives and we prayed to God,...
by Sarah Stone | Aug 14, 2013 | News
Nine years ago, 78 percent of northern Uganda’s Gulu District were living in abject poverty, internally displaced and dependent on supplies from the World Food Programme (WFP) to even survive. Today, 12 communities in Gulu are selling their excess produce back...
by Sarah Stone | Jul 29, 2013 | News
You wouldn’t automatically pair music therapy with hearing impairments, but, in Uganda, BMS World Mission worker Bethan Shrubsole is doing just that. “We use the instruments they can feel – they feel vibrations – and we sign songs to the rhythm,”...
by Sarah Stone | Jun 28, 2013 | News
“Land is everything here,” says Alex Vickers, BMS World Mission worker in Gulu, northern Uganda. With land comes the possibility of growing crops to feed your family and pay for your children’s education. “If you have land,” he says,...
