It all began here with Jackie Atim, a young graduate agronomist, sharing the concept of Grandmas gardens with a group of widowed Grandmas near Luwero, Uganda. During the devastating civil war many women had been made widows with lots of children to feed. In their impoverished condition Grandmas had to scrape out a meagre [...]
The crop of maize that Ronnie planted earlier in the year has now been harvested and together with the latest supply of bricks that Ronnie made, they have been able to build up their house to the next level. Ronnie tells us “I think for now we are going to leave it there for a [...]
Experimental Garden This is the Reach the Children Kenya experimental garden next to its maize production mill facility. Justus Suchi has a passion for improving the variety of locally grown food to provide better nourishment to children and families in the community. His irrepressible desire to better the lives of impoverished rural children has [...]
This is Justus Suchi, the Country Director of Reach the Children Kenya, who has dedicated twenty years of service to the communities of western Kenya. Here he is demonstrating container gardening, showing how vegetables can be successfully grown in discarded plastic containers. Lecturing throughout the area he stimulates local families to try new varieties [...]
This is Ronnie Kyambadde, Project Manager and newly appointed Board Member of Reach the Children Uganda, surveying his farmland. He and his family are self-sufficient in fruit and vegetables, and during his last harvest Ronnie was able to take his cash crops of 4,000 cabbages and 20 boxes of 200 kg of tomatoes to [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
