Women in India are very vulnerable. Rates of rape and abuse are staggeringly high. For many village women, the most vulnerable time is in the early morning when they have to go to nearby fields as so many villages lack toilet facilities. Many have been raped or kidnapped at this time. We have been raising…
The Bridge Trust Ltd supports a team of 30 women health workers in a pocket of the slums in the Indian capital, Delhi. We recently sent our latest 6 months’ of support for them. We were able to add money to pay for the new saris that the team are given each Christmas, thanks to…
Dave Day and a team of 5 others have recently returned from a visit to our partners in Delhi. They led leadership training schools in Delhi and Agra and four of the team had a weekend in Chennai with the Victory Church. The remainder of the time was spent visiting several of the projects we…
On 1st November, Dave Day and a team from Bridge will be visiting India. They will participate in a leaders’ conference in Delhi. They will also be seeing at first hand work that we are able to support in India thanks to the generosity of our donors. In India, Bridge funds and trains a team…
On 3 May 2019, Typhoon Fani hit the east Indian state of Odisha (Orissa). It was the strongest tropical cyclone to hit the state since 1999, with sustained wind speeds of up to 115 mph (185 km/h). Bridge has been supporting a local church leader in Bhubaneswar, the state capital, for some years. A team…
