SIFE Newcastle Latest News

• SIFE Newcastle prepare for the launch of their sixth project: ‘Time for Tumaini’.June 25, 2012, 4:43 pm

  In September, SIFE Newcastle will officially launch their second international and sixth project in total. The project is called ‘Time for Tumaini’, with Tumaini meaning ‘Hope’ in Swahili; the national language of Kenya, where the project will be based. The project will work with people in Kangemi; a large slum, with over 100,000 inhabitants, located [...]

• Dufatanye: A profile of our international project.March 11, 2012, 9:26 pm

  Even today the people of Rwanda are haunted by the aftermath of the genocide in 1994. The civil war, caused by tension between two ethnic groups, which led to the assassination of the Rwandan and Burundian presidents, was the ultimate catalyst of the genocide. An estimated 800,000 people were killed, but that is only half [...]

• A visit to a Crossings music session.December 7, 2011, 12:52 pm

  Last week the SIFE team put on our musical hats and joined our Crossings project in one of their open music sessions. It was a fantastic way to see how our hard work was helping members of our community. We all enjoyed making music using our voices, drums, boomwackers (plastic tubes) and other instruments. One [...]

• SIFE training weekendNovember 16, 2011, 5:16 pm

  One team, one dream! Cheesy? Yes, but also true. The team have just got back from the training weekend and we are feeling officially SIFED! We had an incredible time and the passion and enthusiasm of everybody there was really infectious. It’s left us feeling more motivated then ever! With not a minute to spare, [...]