Growing up in rural Africa creates a unique set of childhood experiences that children share in the stories they write about their lives, stories that always touch the hearts of readers especially when telling about how Reach the Children impacts their communities. Reach the Children UK decided to take up the challenge of collecting [...]
To our faithful followers, old and new You have generously supported Reach the Children in the past but there is now an *urgent* need for funds to help feed Covid-19 vulnerable families in rural Uganda and Kenya. These households include grandmothers caring for their grandchildren, HIV positive mothers, disabled family members, women and child [...]
Almost 200 children received pencils and paper last October and told their stories. They shared many of their life’s experiences, some sad some very funny. By stimulating each child’s imagination they not only told wonderful stories but beautifully illustrated those stories with some joyous pictures. Everything we have around us had to be imagined [...]
Malaria still kills too many children. Reach the Children donated a mosquito net to every child that participated in our Story Writing Competition in 10 schools earlier this year. You can see some of them in our video as well as some of the children from one school who sang a song for us all about [...]
Every girl deserves to be educated. Her contribution to civil society will be incalculable, benefiting generations yet to come. It begins with telling her story, imagining what can be. Donate now and help us reach more children https://www.justgiving.com/reachthechildren
My future depends on my education; I don’t want you to give me a hand out, I want a hand up to reach my potential, a chance to dream of what might be, to fire my imagination about what I can do for myself and my family. Give me a pencil and paper then [...]
In this time of pandemic crisis we are all concerned about washing our hands frequently. For some people that is a privilege and for others it is a distant reality. In these days of a global pandemic, it is vitally important that everyone washes their hands regularly to protect themselves from the Coronavirus. It was World [...]
On this International Women's Day we celebrate the strength of these grandmas and their stories. Check out our YouTube video
Every child has a unique set of skills and talents that cause them to see life’s challenges from a different point of view, so every child will have a different story to tell. Why not write your story and share it with us. That is what 3 primary schools in Uganda did at the [...]
Going to the “loo” has a whole new meaning at a Primary School in Ematibira, Western Kenya now that the boys and girls have brand new separate toilet blocks to use, thanks to generous donors Trust UK working with Reach the Children UK. The project was implemented by Reach the Children Kenya. The installation [...]
