Welcome to Gweini

Prospects is a Christian organisation which enables and values people with learning disabilities to live their lives to the full.

Caring can be fun but exhausting.  As your child reaches adolescence you are aware that school and other children services will come to an end which may add to your worries.  Maybe you have organised all your adult child’s activities for years not knowing that you can have help. You may want some advice regarding church inclusion and bringing your child to faith.

School days were certainly not the best days of my life.  At 16 I had no qualifications.  I was involved in an armed robbery when I was 18 and sentenced to 5 years in a young offenders’ institute.

I had dreams like everyone else but I didn’t have the education to go to college; the only thing I could do was sell drugs and I thought this was the way I could earn the money to buy my dream.

At 18 I had become a dad.  I saw my son now and again but to be honest I wasn’t that bothered about him. Mum and Dad tried talking to me but I was too arrogant to listen.  Then one day, when I was under the influence of drugs, I robbed a drug dealer of cannabis and a couple of hundred pounds.  And I assaulted him.  I was in the police station for three days.

Evangelical Alliance Wales today urged organisations and individuals in Wales with links to Egypt to do all that it can to stop the horrific treatment of Eritrean refugees at the hands of Bedouin traffickers in Egypt’s Sinai Desert.

Many of the refugees fall into the hands of Bedouin people traffickers after fleeing their poverty-stricken country, where they are then held for ransom until friends or relatives abroad can pay.

BBC Radio 4’s Mike Thompson from the Today programme conducted a chilling interview over the phone on Saturday with Philemon, an Eritrean refugee, and his Bedouin trafficker who is demanding $25,000 for his release, threatening to kill him if the ransom is not met.

How a Christian Charity works to equip young people for life

Vine Social Enterprises is the social trading arm of The Vine Trust Group, a Christian charity set up by a group of churches in Walsall in 1989. Based at the former Vine Inn in the town, a pub which was once a focus for drugs and prostitution, it seeks to ‘work with hard to reach young people, to fully equip them for life, so that together we will transform our communities’. The Vine Trust Group also operates an independent school and youth support company offering education for excluded pupils and advice and guidance to local young people. The focus of all activities within the Group is hard to reach/employ young people.

In 2008, Vine Social Enterprises secured a contract with IKEA Wales to deliver a core service function, managing customer shopping tools. This was with the long term vision of extending its activities into Wales, by establishing a similar hub for youth support services in Cardiff. The contract, named ‘Project390’ is delivered by mostly long-term unemployed young people from the Cardiff and Vale area. A team of four supervisors provide mentoring, training, support, & advice to each young person, outliving a Christian witness throughout the engagement.