The Thika Alumni Trust, a charitable organization dedicated to providing IT resources to schools, has received a generous donation of 14 laptops from our friends at Service Express, a company committed to making a positive impact. These laptops, preloaded with essential lessons and educational software, will play a pivotal role in supporting teachers and enhancing [...]
This year we have been able to return to rural African schools and even expand our writing competition to reach more children - working in twenty schools for 2022! Sharing stories and writing about our dreams, experiences or aspirations is a classroom activity that so many of us can take for granted. For the children [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this year we held a Story Writing Competition in three Ugandan schools. P6 and P7 students responded enthusiastically; here are two of the prize winning stories from Richard and Hafuswah, together with a photo of some of the students who took part. As you read the stories, you will readily identify challenges that students [...]
