Phil Hawkins

Meet Joy, a teacher in St Patrick Primary School in Jinja, Uganda. Jinja  is a city in the Eastern Region  of Uganda , located on the north shore of Lake Victoria .   The biggest local employer is the Kakira Sugar Works  (KSW), a member of the Madhvani Group  of companies. KSW is one of the largest sugar factories in East Africa, employing over 7,500. The factory burns bagasse  byproducts from sugar manufacturing to generate 50 megawatts of electricity for internal use and sale to the...

Meet Heleen, part of the leadership team at GROW Daycare in Bourj Hammoud, Beirut, Lebanon. Hellen is from the Netherlands and works as a speech therapist, training caregivers in how to support children in their language development. Day-to-day life in Bourj Hammoud, one of Beirut’s most distinctive and densely populated neighbourhoods, is vibrant, hectic, deeply communal, and shaped by decades of history—especially its strong Armenian heritage. Although the area has become more mixed in...

Meet Sahr, proprietor of Christ Our King School in Sierra Leone. He is also the pastor of a local church. Sierra Leone derives its name from the Lion Mountains near its capital, Freetown. In the late 18th century, some African Americans who had fought for the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War were resettled in Sierra Leone, forming a community named Black Loyalists . This resettlement scheme was partly motivated by social issues in London, with the Sierra Leone...