Our Mission

Reach the Children UK was registered as a children's charity in 2004 to provide under privileged and impoverished children in Africa opportunities to become self reliant by strengthening families, neighbourhoods and communities.

What we do

Education

• Reach the Children sustains its HIV AIDS intervention programme "Stay Alive" through local in country staff throughout a number of African countries. The Stay Alive programme has been taught extensively to school teachers, religious, community and youth leaders who in turn have managed the direct teaching of the Stay Alive education modules to more than half a million children between the ages of 9 and 13 years of age. RTC Uganda has partnered with The Global Fund to extend the training of more Stay Alive instructors in island rural communities on Lake Victoria.
• RTC expedition volunteers teach life skills directly to school children. RTC has set up welding training programmes attached to schools and communities providing the equipment and instructors to train pupils in rudimentary metal work to enable them to gain skilled employment. Sewing machines have been donated to schools by RTC where volunteers have taught dress making skills whilst in other schools RTC has supplied computers and skills classes to teachers and pupils alike.
• Other life skills such as primary first aid, personal and household hygiene have been taught as RTC has installed hand washing, shower and culinary water storage facilities.

Community Development

• RTC has set up a programme to support Grandmothers who are the primary care givers for their HIV/AIDS orphan grandchildren. Land has been purchased in Kenya and Uganda and participating with self help groups parcels of land have been allocated in communities with a high concentration of Grandmothers caring for their grandchildren whose parents have become victims of the AIDS pandemic. Tools, seeds and technical advice on husbandry is provided by local experts.
• Rainwater harvesting has been established in rural communities far from clean water supplies. Guttering and holding tanks have been installed in schools located in arid areas. The stored water is for culinary use and improves personal hygiene when piped to wash hand facilities.
• RTC has partnered local self help groups providing cows in calf to impoverished families who when the calf is born pass the calf to another poor family. Chickens, goats and sheep have also been provided to communities as improved dietary supplements.
• RTC supports local rural initiatives such as fruit drying, collective family farming, micro irrigation, drilling wells, orphan safe houses, micro-credit unions, orphan education support.