Idris and Halima, both with personal disabilities, have built and developed a specialist vocational training institute in Kayunga Uganda for deaf, blind, physically disabled, HIV positive and albino children, slow learners and other vulnerable young people. They give their all to feed, accommodate, care for, and educate their happy band of impoverished [...]
We met Harriett the first year Reach the Children UK visited YOPDIDA (Youth and Persons with Disability Integrated Development Association) in Kayunga, Uganda. Harriett had been placed at YOPDIDA to help her overcome her severe disability and become a productive member of her community. Harriett had been born with lower limb deformities which meant [...]
At Reach the Children we try very hard to make it a special occasion for all our volunteers. John and Nina rose to the occasion at the close of a very busy expedition when it was suggested they get married with a traditional Maasai wedding ceremony. RTC UK quickly contacted the local Maasai village [...]
This is a letter we will be sending out to potential donors to reach the Children UK. Feel free to share with anyone who would be interested Reach the Children UK was registered in 2004 as a children’s charity, dedicated to providing opportunities for impoverished children in rural African communities to become self-reliant by [...]
Reach the Children UK congratulates its associate Reach the Children Uganda (RTCU) on gaining formal Uganda Government recognition as a registered NGO. This official status is quite significant, enabling much greater recognition with the Department for International Development (DFID) and other funding organisations around the world. RTCU has been very successful over more than [...]
There is no social security safety net in Africa. If your parents die leaving you as an orphan, as many do, you are alone and more often than not on the streets trying to find enough discarded waste food to live and a big enough waste tip to rummage in to salvage a few [...]
Improved water and sanitation services are a key priority in the Uganda National Development Plan. The United Nations has also identified water and sanitation as a priority by designating it as one of their millennium development goals. Since 2001 responsibilities for hygiene and sanitation have been devolved between health, water and education departments which [...]
Grandmas’ Gardens is a unique programme developed by Reach the Children UK. Grandmothers are the de facto caregivers in Africa to their grandchildren whose parents have become victims of HIV AIDS. They are often left with no land or income and precious few material possessions to feed, clothe and educate their grandchildren. Reach the [...]
A generous donor paid for and installed a mill used in the grinding of maize to make maize flour, a staple food for most rural Africans. Initially located in the suburbs of Nairobi, it is shortly to be moved to Western Kenya, in the heart of maize growing areas, where it will provide the [...]
Water is the most precious commodity, essential for life and no one can live without it. We consume it, clean our food with it, cook our meals with it, wash our dishes with it, bathe and shower our bodies in it, wash our clothes in it, clean our homes with it, water our gardens [...]
