Our Projects

Seeds For Learning Programme

This recently introduced programme is designed to encourage children to plant trees in their school grounds and communities that will grow and provide a source of income. When the trees mature and provide fruit to harvest and sell, or a source of sustainable timber, the school becomes self reliant. The benefit, besides providing shade trees to shelter school children from the hot tropical sun, include a regular harvest of fruit for sale; a reduction of CO2 emissions and a beautification of communities. Diets are also improved as fruit becomes affordable. The funds raised are used to provide schools with a continuous income stream that is used to maintain computers in classrooms, materials for sewing and tailoring classes as well as other items that support the life skills training Reach the Children UK provides to impoverished children in rural African communities.

Rainwater Harvesting

In many parts of Africa drought is a constant spoiler of agricultural initiatives. The lack of clean water is the largest cause of childhood diseases and death.

Reach the Children UK looks to the provision of culinary water and improve the sanitary conditions around the cooking pot or the latrine dug out. Funds have been provided to install guttering to school roofs draining into large rainwater storage tanks during the rainy season to provide water for hand washing points around the schools to enable schoolchildren to wash their hands, dinner plates and cooking pots in clean uncontaminated water. The water is recycled to the garden to water crops. Wells are hand dug and pumped to irrigate Grandmas� Gardens and provide water for cattle and sheep.

Community Development

Working with self help groups in rural communities Reach the Children UK has provided funds for cows in calf which have been donated to families who pass on the calf to another family. This provides fresh milk to the family with some to spare for sale to meet school fees and medical bills. Welding schools have been set up and provided with equipment to train youngsters in a trade to help them become self sufficient after schooling is finished. Sewing machines have been donated to schools following training to use them and then go on to tailor school uniforms and other garments. Life skills in health care, education etc are designed to leave school children with the confidence to tackle the challenges of life.

Grandmas' Gardens

Grandmas are the care givers in Africa. When many of their children succumb to HIV/AIDS their grandchildren turn to Grandma for their care. Impoverished themselves they struggle to provide enough food to feed their grandchildren. Grandmas' Gardens is an RTC UK programme, providing land to Grandmas enabling them to grow food to feed their grandchildren, sell a little food to pay school fees and very occasionally to have enough to meet medical bills. Local community support and Government Agricultural Offices are encouraged to help develop initiatives in providing local management support.

Thank you to everybody who has donated to the general fund which has gone for support and development of this programme in Kenya and Uganda.