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Update from Bunambotye primary school, Uganda

October 24, 2023children, school, Uganda, water

Today's pictorials are from the water tank commissioning at Bunambotye primary school in Bulumbuli district where we donated a 10000 Litre rain harvest water tank with the support of Kitchen Table Charities Trust (KTCT) . We believe in a world where everyone has safe drinking water, forever. We partner with local governments, businesses, and individuals, providing the support they need to bring clean water and sanitation systems to their own communities. Then we ensure they have the resources they need to maintain those systems now and in the future. The local government provides the structure. The local shop owner provides…

Thanks from primary schools in the Ekwendeni area of Mzimba district, Northern Malawi

October 24, 2023children, Malawi, school

Mtende Community Project would like to thank the Kitchen Table Charities Trust and their donors for the grant of £6,000 which we used to provide 90 desks and 9 teachers tables and chairs to 3 primary schools in the Ekwendeni area of Mzimba district, Northern Malawi. The desks were made in Ekwendeni by local carpenters. The grant also provided 3 notebooks and a pencil for 250 pupils in each of the 3 schools. The desks were very much appreciated as until then the children had been sitting on a stone floor. These schools are in rural areas and there was…

Update from the Children of Choba

July 12, 2023children, school, tanzania

Children of Choba has received two KTCT grants - 06/2017 and 07/2020. The Head Teacher, Valerie McGivern, regularly updates us on the pupils' impressive achievements and significant developments at the school. News-from-Choba-May-2023-1Download

Thanks for EduSpots – Ghana

February 22, 2023books, children, community, education, furniture, Ghana, school

EduSpots, a small charity catalysing quality learning opportunities across rural Ghana through a network of local volunteers, is absolutely thrilled with the support from KTCT to improve the conditions of our community-owned and led library education centres called ‘Spots’. Spots enable underserved children to access books, resources, lessons, clubs, and homework support to raise educational aspirations. The £6,000 grant will support ten Spots desperately in need of chairs, tables, bookshelves, and essential repairs to continue supporting children to access educational opportunities. Most children in the communities we work with do not have a quiet space to study with light or…

Thanks from Niva Primary School in Arua City, Uganda

February 21, 2023children, school, Uganda

Greetings from sunny and hot Arua city. Words can’t express my gratitude for the help KTCT has given me. Renovating the classrooms at Niva Primary School was looking impossible until I contacted KTCT’s Chairperson. The response to my request was prompt and this has made it possible at last to put a facelift to a 25-year-old classroom block. This will put a smile on the faces of the children of the lower classes who use the classrooms. KTCT continues with your work of stimulating the learning environment. We sincerely acknowledge the kindness and love shown by your supporters which inspires…

Thanks from Nkwanta, Ghana

January 20, 2023children, community, Ghana, school

A LETTER OF APPRECIATION The chief and people of Nkwanta wish to express our profound appreciation and gratitude to your organization for funding the roofing of the only primary school in our community. With this support, you have positively redefined the future of hundreds of children in Nkwanta and surrounding villages who use the school building. Teachers and pupils will now have good classrooms free from leakages during rainfall. Effective teaching and learning can now take place in our classroom which will help improve students’ performance and ensure the safety of pupils and teachers. I will once again say thank…

An update from Ashanti Development, Ghana

January 12, 2023building, children, education, Ghana, school

Ashanti Development was established in 2005 when London-based Ghanaians asked their friends and neighbours to raise funds to help improve the quality of life of people in their home villages, Since then they have provided clean water and sanitation for 16,000 people, built schools and clinics, established a hardship fund for disabled adults, and helped set up micro-credit schemes in 14 villages. Ashanti Development requested funding to replace the leaking roof and supporting timbers of a primary school at Nkwanta, part of which was blown away in a storm. The school was built in 1996 and has six classrooms. There…

KAZAMWENDO PRIMARY SCHOOL WATER BOREHOLE PROJECT

May 17, 2022borehole, children, Kazamwendo, Kigoma village, school, tanzania, water

With the support of KTCT, UCO Tanzania has received a grant in March 2022 which will help to get two local hand pump boreholes in Mlangilizi and Kazamwendo primary schools to service almost 1600 students to get safe water. Mboni group has drilled a local hand pump borehole in Kazamwendo after a successful survey which was done on 7-4-2022 and now the project is done in Kazamwendo. Please read the full report: KAZAMWENDO-PRIMARY-SCHOOL-WATER-BOREHOLE-PROJECT-ACTIVITIES-REPORT-1Download

Solar-powered borehole project – Thanks from Kenya

May 16, 2022borehole, children, Kenya, school, water

Many thanks and much appreciation to supporters of Kitchen Table Charities Trust for donating a wonderful gift of £6200 to Light The Poor Group in Kenya to install a solar-powered borehole in an under-served and water-stressed school for underprivileged children with no access to safe water. We are filled with joy and happiness to you for enabling us to implement this project. It means a lot to us, and even more to the beneficiary school since it goes a long way in reducing the high prevalence of waterborne diseases among 725 poor learners at the school. It will also boost the…

Water and sanitation project at St. Annes Bumala Education Centre. Thanks from Kenya

May 12, 2022girls, Kenya, pump, Sanitation, school, septic tank, water

The Board of Management of Bumala Vision Community Based Organization and the entire community of Bumala are very grateful for the donation of GBP 6,000 for the Water and sanitation project at St. Annes Bumala Education Centre. We hereby confirm to you that we have received the funds from your Charity through Olive Bearers (UK) and the first phase of the project has begun in earnest. This project will go a long way to change lives in this community by solving sanitation and water challenges that we have had in the institution and community by providing additional pit latrines, a facility for…