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By Lucy Liddle We use the phrase #LongTermImpact all the time. But what does this actually mean... As always, sometimes an example is the...

By Rebecca Brett & Lucy Liddle Mamma Caroline and her Family - Photo Credit to Nick Spollin Why Kitale? For the women in Kitale, life can...

By Rebecca Brett & Lucy Liddle It's 8pm on the 1st March and children across the UK have only just remembered to tell their parents that...

Our partner schools in Tanzania are currently closed, but that doesn't mean we have stopped working to improve the quality of education!...

As the world enters uncertain times, we at COCO are doing our best to continue as usual so that the schools and communities we work with...

COCO is committed to reducing harmful impacts on the environment. To do so, COCO incorporates environmentally friendly and sustainable...

There's some friendly competition going on among Schools for Life partners in Tanzania. Watch out Hoja Secondary, Mshangano Secondary are...

#4amfor40p Imagine standing in a line at 4am to get the chance to work for 40p from 4am until 6pm. That’s 14 hours, that’s 2.8p per hour....

My name is Barbara and I’ve been volunteering at COCO for four weeks as a fundraising admin. I study Theology and Religion at Durham...

Pre-school education is a very important stage of a child’s development, by the age of five, 90% of a child’s brain has already...

One of the many interlinked issues that COCO is working to alleviate is gender inequality. Such discrimination is often deeply ingrained...

Over July 2019 I commenced on a 3-week internship at COCO in Digital Marketing. I have also just finished my undergraduate degree in...

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” Community-led development projects...

By Lucy Graves, COCO Volunteer COCO believes that education is vitally important in creating opportunities for breaking out of the cycle...

Ending child marriage is not one of COCO's main aims, however no one aspect of development can be looked at in isolation, everything is...

Mshangano Secondary was saved from closure last month, thanks to the fantastic team runners at Ward Hadaway who raised funds in the their...

By Valtteri Nurminen, COCO Volunteer Today we celebrate the World Toilet Day for the fifth year. The day aims to raise awareness that...

Today is the International Day for Tolerance, a day when the world celebrates toleration, acceptance of difference and peaceful...

A massive thank you to everyone who donated to the Mercy Classroom Appeal earlier this year. We are delighted that the classroom is now...