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The Buturi Project is a small charity made up of like-minded volunteers, helping a remote village in Tanzania, on the shore of Lake Victoria, where they are struggling with poverty in near intolerable conditions.

Like many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, Buturi has suffered from the twin disasters of AIDS and drought.

Twenty-five years of AIDS has decimated the community, so we tend to see the very young and old with the stronger, more capable generation missing. The older generation struggle to bring up their orphaned grandchildren. Buturi is a village typical of this...

RGB Building Supplies’ ‘Well Built Community Fund’ has already given away £1,000 worth of building materials to a charity, sports club and most recently a primary school.

The builders merchant, which has a branch on Alphinbrook Road, is now asking for community groups based in Exeter to get in contact and apply for the grant.

The Community Fund is helping various groups to complete work that they wouldn’t have otherwise been able to do. Perhaps a community centre is in need of some decoration, a youth group would like to create an outdoor area, or a church hall needs...

The Skills Group Hair Academy in Exeter is holding an open day on Monday 10 November for potential hairdressing and barbering apprentices and salon owners who may be considering taking on an apprentice.

The event is part of Skills Group’s current ‘Learn a trade and get paid’ campaign to raise awareness of apprenticeship opportunities.

Young people are invited to attend from 10am-3pm to meet the hairdressing training team, and to take part in have-a-go sessions, demonstrations and master classes.

Young people are being actively encouraged to consider alternatives to...

Generous locals from Exeter have given £84,000 to an appeal set up by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to help those affected by the deadly Ebola crisis.

The DEC, which is made up of 13 leading UK aid charities, said they were humbled to see how the UK public have responded to such an unprecedented crisis, which is devastating communities across West Africa. A total of £14 million has been raised since the appeal launched on Thursday last week.

DEC Chief Executive Saleh Saeed said: “The people of Exeter have been incredibly generous and I want to thank each and every...