How far can you make a £50 ($64) donation to Reach the Children go? Trustee Kate Gibson and Uganda In Country Manager, Ronnie Kyambadde, made it all the way to the market in Kampala to stock up with material, threads, needles, zips and buttons. Another generous donor has already bought a sewing machine for [...]
We are inviting friends and supporters to forego a birthday present and buy desperately needed equipment for vocational training at YOPDIDA, a school for disabled children in Kayunga, Uganda. Reach the Children Trustee Tony Jordan has led out by example, deciding that on his birthday he would be the one to give it away. [...]
Can you identify these trees and their fruit? All these fruit trees grow abundantly on Reach the Children Uganda’s Luwero Centre. The children in the local community pick and eat the fruit as they wait for their water containers to fill up with clean water. The recently completed borehole provides lots of clean water [...]
The local community is always pleased to assist Reach the Children on its Luwero Centre projects, none more so than the local boys who always get stuck into whatever work has to be done. They should be in school getting an education but sadly their families cannot afford to pay school fees. Helping to [...]
Alex Jones of Red Planet Pictures you are a star, having climbed Africa’s highest mountain and raised more than £4,000 for Reach the Children UK. More used to raising funds to finance TV drama as a Managing Director for Red Planet, Alex put out the word to family and friends to sponsor him as [...]
How do you help a scared child at the health clinic? You give them a teddy. Going to the Medical Centre can be a frightening time for a small child so how do you help to make it less stressful for them? You give them a knitted teddy. A group of knitters from Luton [...]
Soon to be 94 years young Dorothy Botterell continues to make significant donations to Reach the Children's Grandmas Gardens programme in Luwero Uganda. Dorothy's husband Frank died in 2013 and he was an enthusiastic contributor and supporter of Reach the Children UK. Frank and Dorothy provided much of the funds to acquire the 14 acres [...]
Reach the Children Kenya adopts a world beating phone payment system, M-PESA, to let customers pay for the premium maize flour freshly ground at its new posho mill in Kakamega, Western Kenya. M-PESA is the world’s first mobile money system and is a wholly Kenyan invention. M-PESA is used by 17 m Kenyans, about [...]
The 10,000 litre storage tank is lifted on to the raised platform at Reach the Children’s Luwero Centre near Kampala Uganda. This phase of the drilling of a borehole 57 metres deep in to the ground provides a good source of water that will be pumped into the raised storage tank. The elevated tank [...]
The posho mill is now up and running in Western Kenya and is proving a great success. Only the best quality cultivated maize is bought from the local farmers and sun dried to a specific moisture content in readiness to be sent to the Miller, where it is processed into super grade 1 maize [...]
