30th August 2010

WE GOT OUR NGO PAPERWORK TODAY!!!!!! We are now all offically registered as an NGO in Madagascar!!!!!! WOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

31st July 2010

Caroline & Rachel have moved into their new home!! Check out their photos in the Gallery.

28th July 2010

News from Madagascar - Caroline and Rachel have found a house to rent in the city. They should move in and sign contracts on Wednesday. Photos will follow soon but they have no internet access at the moment. All very busy and exciting with new developments every day - so watch this space!

18th July 2010

Caroline & Rachel have arrived safely in Madagascar!!!!!

 

11th July 2010

Caroline and Rachel are back in Pemba, Mozambique where Caroline has spoken about the baby house project at the latest mission school.The exciting news is that they leave on Monday 12th July and should be in Madagascar by the end of the week. They will stay with friends to start with and then plan to find a place to rent so that they can be in Madagascar for the next stage of planning the baby house.

21st May 2010

Caroline and Rachel fly to Zimbabwe and then Maputo next week to continue their training and gain further experience from other Iris bases.

5th May 2010


Rachel's parents visited Bristol to meet Caroline's parents and bring further supplies to put in the container. Check out photos in the 'Container Album'. Thank you to all who contributed.		   

20th April 2010


 A BIG thank you to the sunday school at Pendennis Chapel, Staple Hill who presented the baby house with a cheque today.

30th March 2010

Caroline and her 1st team member Rachel Riemens fly back to Pemba today to commence team training!!!! Rachel is a midwife from Holland, please check out her story under 'team & blog', we wish them all the best.

17th December 2009

The Sudan Trip is going very well, the team arrived safely last week and have been helping to build a school. They will also be helping with the children. They have now managed to book flights out of Sudan on the 22nd December instead of the overnight bus. This should make life much easier but Caroline asks for prayer about this as sometimes the flights get cancelled and all of the team have other flights to catch on the 23rd. 

Caroline does not have internet access at the moment so asked her Mum to
send these updates. 

11th November 2009

Caroline flies to Pemba for 5 days, look out for her next blog coming soon.

26th October 2009

The baby that was admitted to hospital with TB has been discharged!!  Check out the team blog for Caroline's update.

25th October 2009


Some great news this week when Sally Thomas (Caroline's Mum) spoke at SHINE, a women's conference in Newport. Sally was made to feel very welcome and a large amount of money was raised for the baby house.

Thank you so much to those who donated and a big thank you for inviting Sally to speak at the conference!!!!!  

14th October 2009

Caroline is now running a baby house in South Africa until December!!! An opportunity for her to use her skills whilst the paperwork goes through in Madagascar! One baby is pretty sick and has been admitted to hospital tonight, please pray for him and his complete recovery.

Whilst in Madagascar Caroline viewed 3 plots of land, please pray for wisdom in choosing the right plot.

8th October 2009

Change of plan - Caroline flies to South Africa today. She will spend 6 weeks looking after 2 babies at a newly open baby house, one of the babies has TB but is doing well. This will be great experience for Caroline and of course she will be in her element, doing what she loves!

PAPERWORK HAS BEEN HANDED IN!!!!!!!

5th October 2009

Caroline met with The Minister of Foreign Affairs today, there are a couple more things that need to be added to the paper work but nothing that can't be done quickly and the papers should be handed in tomorrow - please pray it all goes to plan.

27th September 2009

Caroline returns to Africa today after 6 weeks back in the UK. First off she will visit Madagascar to look at potential land for the Baby House. Then she returns to Iris Mozambique to continue her training.

Plus I'm sure you have noticed a change in the website. Please bare with us while we continue to update Iris Madagascar, there are several more pages still to come!