Child Mobility FOSCIM (MALAWI)

February 1, 2020Tags: , , , ,
If life for the average, ‘healthy’ Malawian child is poor then life for those with severe mobility problems can be dire. The consequences for the child and its family can be many and debilitating. The Government of Malawi does not provide mobility aids. Even if they could find them, most families would not be able to afford a mobility aid for their child. Without a mobility aid, the child cannot go to school and will have a very limited social life.If the child cannot go to school, in most cases this restricts both parents from working therefore impacting the family…

Missing Link (Uganda) – Latrine Project – Update

January 30, 2020Tags: , , , ,
FIRST PROGRESS REPORT SUBMITTED TO KITCHEN TABLE CHARITIES TRUST Following the approval of our grant proposal to Kitchen Table Charities Trust (KTCT) GranteeCommittee on 28th February 2019 and award of £5,500 to build a five stance, disabled friendly,VIP (Ventilation Improve Pit) latrine, with separate facilities for boys and girls, boys urinals, andhandwashing facilities at Abubaker Nursery and Primary School in Busanule Village, Buwofu,Namukonge Parish in Bugiri District, Uganda, the grant of an equivalent of UGX 25,703,684 wastransferred to Missing Link Uganda bank account on 7th January 2020. The school was badly in need of toilet facilities and was on the…

The Mustard Seed Project (Uganda) – Soap Making

January 28, 2020Tags: , , ,
The Mustard Seed Project (Uganda) have been supporting the community of Tisai Island, situated in a swamp in Eastern Uganda, since 2016. The island was only discovered to be inhabited 8 years ago, after families had returned to their land since the insurgencies of the Lord’s Resistance Army and attacks from the Karamojong. Since 2016 The Mustard Seed Project has fundraised to build a school for over 400 children, a community centre, a health centre and we sponsor a nurse and teachers. We have promoted sustainability through the planting of crops to feed the school children, and the donations of…

Providing Sinchu Wuri school with toilets (The Gambia)

January 21, 2020Tags: , , , ,
On behalf of JantaBi, I would like to thank KTCT for an amazing investment in the future lives of children in The Gambia. The money granted will allow us to provide Sinchu Wuri school with toilets, clean water, a much-needed milling machine, and much more! This will very quickly make a huge difference to the lives of over 700 children and the thousands to come through the school. An enormous and heartfelt THANK YOU to all those who provide funds to KTCT, your donations will change lives and the work has already begun!

Missing Link (Uganda) – Latrine Project

January 12, 2020Tags: , , , ,
Letter of thanks from Missing Link: It is such a remarkable achievement for the school administration and parents of Abu Baker Nursery and Primary school to receive a five-stance, disabled-friendly, VIP (Ventilation Improved Pit) latrine, with separate facilities for boys and girls, boys urinals, and handwashing facilities donation from KTCT. Apart from not being enough, the existing pit latrine was unhygienic and a security threat to the pupils in the school.  (See photo of school pit latrine before KTCT support) The disabled access toilet, the first of its kind in the Sub-county will increase the enrollment of pupils, including disabled…

Thanks from: Uzima in Our Hands (Kenya)

January 7, 2020Tags: , , , ,
We are delighted that the Kitchen Table Charities Trust is able to support us in replacing the pump to the borehole and installing three water harvesting tanks at Uzima, an Orphan and Day Care Centre that feeds, clothes, and educates 340 vulnerable children in an impoverished area of rural western Kenya. The children will not only benefit from an essential, sustainable water source from now on but also be protected from health hazards such as when the toilets flooded due to excess rainwater that wasn't being collected. These children often only eat and drink at the Centre, and our charity…

Thanks from Nature-Care-Cameroon (N-CARE)

December 19, 2019
There’s nothing more gratifying than putting a smile on the face of someone who has lost everything in life. Nature-Care-Cameroon (N-CARE) remains thankful to KTCT and goodwill partners for this generous support without which, we will not be able to make strides in this initiative. This grant shall in no little way significantly contribute not only in improving on the wellbeing of women and girls severely hit by the armed conflicts in the English speaking regions of Cameroon, but will also raise their hopes in seeing reasons to live a normal life despite the challenges. The generous support of individual…

Thanks from Jacaranda UK

December 19, 2019
Thank you so much to the KTCT and its supporters for this extremely generous grant. With this money Jacaranda UK Foundation will be able to help train 200 new women entrepreneurs from one of the poorest areas of one of the poorest countries in the world, and provide micro-loans to help them start their own businesses. Sustainable growth and change is only achieved when people are given the tools with which they can help themselves, and this grant and the training it will fund will help these women lift themselves, their families and their communities out of the poverty they…

Update from: St Peter’s Life – Line

December 11, 2019
Our Alternative Rite of Passage is now underway, and 249 girls turned up, over the 200 budgeted for, which is always good news, and we can absorb that extra cost. These girls will now be out of harm’s way during the tribal ritual ‘circumcision’ season. We will have them for a residential week at St Peter’s school, where they will be educated and empowered to say NO! To FGM, along with the 2,000 or so girls that have previously attended over the years. We will equip them to be freed them from a horrible, traumatic and injurious mutilation, to refuse…

Thanks from the Tiwavwire Youth Organization, Malawi

December 10, 2019
Tiwavwire Youth Organization a registered Charitable organisation (Malawi). We would like to thanks and appreciate your donation which you gave us through Malawi Farmers Aid. Malawi is one of poorest countries because of poverty many families in Rural Areas are unable to send their children to school and many youths are dropping school before reaching high school levels. Because of poor education many youths are unable to find job. Your donation will bring hope and great change because will encourage the youths to be self dependent. We are blessed to have community of people who love to support and empower…