Thanks from Mothers’ Initiatives Africa

Dear Kitchen Table Charities Trust, We at Mothers’ Initiatives Africa are very grateful for your generous support to us for the lifesaving work of improving the Reproductive Health of rural women in Mbale and Manafwa Districts of Eastern Uganda. Your generous donation of £ 11,000 will go a long way to helping us and ccontributing to the reduction of maternal and child mortality among rural women of reproductive age with the target of having no mother die during child birth in the two districts. With this grant, 1000 rural needy expectant mothers will receive mama kits and we shall equip…

John Humphrys on KTCT

Taken from his lovely interview with Emily Horton (with John in the hotseat for once), ahead of his appearance on 5th April at Epsom Playhouse, John Humprhys, founder of KTCT talks about the charity. “Setting up the Trust, with the £1,000 legacy my father left me, is the most important thing I have ever done. Initially I was going to use the money to found a school or two in sub-Saharan Africa. However, I soon realised that it was a stupid idea because I knew nothing about building schools, or about the bureaucracy of it all. Instead, I decided to…

Progress report from the Rural Priorities Project

The management of Rural Priorities Project would like to thank you and your kind collaborators again for supporting our TBA training project. I would like to inform you that the project has come to a successful end. The project is tremendously improving the health condition of the people of Jasikan District particularly women in the area of reproductive health (Mother and Child Health). Again thanks a million for your cooperation, and hope to hearing from you. Attached therefore, kindly fine the project reports for your study:  Progress report

Child Mobility FOSCIM (Malawi) – Update

FOCSIM have pleasure in attaching 4 more case stories from Malawi of children now mobile thanks to KTCT.  Sorry to say that the flow of case stories to KTCT has been and is being frustrated by two things, one bad and one good. The bad one of course is Covid-19 and the resulting travel restrictions within Malawi plus the hospital's rules about how many out-patients can been seen on site at any one time. The good one is that this year’s Christmas mobility appeal broke the previous year’s never-to-be-matched response. Because of Covid-19 it proved impossible to meet the demand…

Thank you KTCT, a letter from ASUD in Malawi

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Please receive our greetings from Action for Sustainable Development (ASUD) in Malawi. As we have just entered in the new year 2017, we have to repeat our word of THANK YOU for your generous donation of £11,000 meant to rescue pupils at Mtende Primary School who have had a serious shortage of proper toilets since 2004 (12 years) when the school was established. One of girls’ toilets presently being used at Mtende All toilets were bad and none had appetite to use them. They used them just because they had no option. Honestly, this…

Rural Priorities Project, Ghana: 4TH QUARTER REPORT ON TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANTS TRAINING

21ST NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 18TH 2016 SUMMARY The last batch of 22 practicing but untrained Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) being part of the 90 Traditional Birth Attendants selected from 45 hard to reach rural communities in the Jasikan District were  drew from 11 selected communities in two batches. The twenty-two were the last batch out of 90 identified practicing but untrained Traditional Birth Attendants in the Jasikan District. The first batch of 11 persons was trained in November and the rest 11 persons were trained in December. The training duration for each group was 14 days (2 weeks) and the standard…

Thanks from Tim-Tasha Education Centre

Its with great appreciation to hear that good news from KTCT this morning. I take this opportunity on behalf of the Entire Tim-Tasha Education Centre fraternity to sincere thank KTCT on approving our request. This will actually bring to an end the problem of lacking water in our school and also improve the sanitation in our school to almost 99%.We shall also be in a position to prepare enough foods to our pupils on time at once and serve when still hot.I will update you of the progress of everything immediately it starts by also sending you photos. Here below…

Thanks from Safe Anaesthesia Worldwide

On behalf of everyone at Mbale Hospital in Uganda we wish to express our sincerest thanks for this grant to supply new patient monitors for 3 busy operating theatres. These monitors will help to ensure safe anaesthesia for pregnant mothers, children and adults in need of emergency surgery. Your gift will directly help to save the lives of some of the sickest patients at the hospital and ensure fewer complications. The monitors will be in use every single day of the week.  Mbale hospital is the only major hospital in the district that provides free healthcare to patients and the staff work…

Thanks from Action for Sustainable Development

THANK YOU KTCT On behalf of the management and staff of Action for Sustainable Development. I would like to express our happiness and great thanks to KTCT for approving our proposal for construction of permanent VIP latrines at Mtende Primary School at Parango Village in Malawi. Truly, lack of proper toilets has remained a great barrier to education in Mtende community particularly girls, resulting in high incidences of school drop-outs and absenteeism. The approved grant of £11,000 by KTCT committee will enable us reverse the situation by building the toilets we requested, install rainwater harvesting system connected to 3,500 litre…