Update from the Children of Choba

July 12, 2023Tags: , ,
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 from Malawi Farmers Aid

May 31, 2023Tags: , , ,
Please see below, four photographs of our 2022 farming project in Malawi. They show a field of maize at various stages of growth, and the harvested crop in a grain store. This project was at the villages of Yalero and Malemba. It was a difficult start to our programme because the cost of the farm inputs of seed, fertiliser, and herbicide had risen considerably. This is in line with the worldwide increase in farmers' costs due to the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine. This meant we had to carefully manage our budget, and cut back on some aspects…

Vocational Skills Training For A Better Life (Kenya)

October 23, 2021Tags: , ,
Oyugis Integrated Development Organization is a community-based organization initiated in 2013 through concerted efforts of local artisans to create employment opportunities and education programs for the vulnerable men, women, and youth in Rachuonyo South Sub - County, Homabay County in Kenya. The OIDO’s main goal is to alleviate poverty and empower families, women and youth to become self-sustainable and contribute to the economic growth of the community. Since 2013 Oyugis Integrated Development Organization (OIDO) has offered small, multipurpose training workshops to teach vocational skills for vulnerable men, women, and children. The majority of participants are children in and out of…

Thanks from Midwives at Maternity Azur (Uganda)

February 22, 2021Tags: , , ,
Midwives at Maternity Azur (MAMA) are absolutely delighted to receive the support of the Kitchen Table Charities Trust for a key aspect of our new Maternity Clinic building project in Kyarushesha, Uganda (projected completion date June 2021). Their generous grant will pay for pit latrines and wash bays, including one block specifically designed, with their help, to be disabled-friendly; incinerator; kitchen; and medical waste/placenta disposal pits. Our own premises will allow expansion and improvement of our services, with a larger labour ward; greater privacy for inpatients; an increase in our inpatient beds; and a larger outpatients department. Our current rental…

Thanks from Kojie Presby Primary School (Ghana)

November 16, 2020Tags: , ,
APPRECIATION TO THE KITCHEN TABLE CHARITY TRUST Kojie is a farming community in Ghana that has lived in deprivation of development projects for a very long time. Successive governments of Ghana have not been able to bring the needed developmental projects to the community. The community has also never received any support from philanthropists and NGOs to improve the quality of life.  Kojie Presby Primary School has existed for the past 24 years. The pupils and teachers of the school have been attending classes without furniture. The children bring kitchen stools from their homes to sit on. We appealed to the government of Ghana and…

Thanks from Make a Difference Schools, Mombasa

August 24, 2020Tags: , ,
We are tremendously grateful for the support of KTCT in providing a life-changing opportunity for up to 60 young people with special needs. Our charity, Make a Difference Schools Mombasa in conjunction with the Utange State School, has constructed a unit (The Rainbow Unit) that is unique to the region and will offer them a chance to learn a trade.  The money provided by KTCT will furnish two classrooms where they will be able to learn either craftwork or welding in addition to life skills and general education and, in this way, equip them for a life of independence. Something…

Malawi Farmers Aid’s project in rural Malawi

July 20, 2020Tags: , , , , , ,
Aim The aim of the project was to provide groups of unemployed youths in two remote rural villages in Malawi with the necessary training, guidance, and farm input materials to set up small-scale farms in their community. The farms are intended to be the basis for long-term sustainable and expandable food production and employment in one of the poorest countries in Africa. We work with our partner organisation in Malawi, Tivavwire Youth Organisation. We secure funding for our projects from UK charities, and TYO manages the projects in Malawi. The Project Kitchen Table Charitable Trust provided us with a grant…

Thanks from Children of Choba (Tanzania) – Update

June 21, 2020Tags: , , ,
Just to let you know that schools are now open in Tanzania and our president officially declared the coronavirus pandemic over here yesterday. Our kids are all very happy to be back at school, but as we expected many of their parents are very late with their financial contributions. We are so grateful to KTCT for your help with providing home study packages for the children - our school would have had severe financial challenges without your assistance. We used almost exactly the £5,000 we were given on paying the teachers who were involved in designing the homework, photocopying, and…

Child Mobility FOSCIM (Malawi) – Update

June 7, 2020Tags: , , , ,
Attached are the details of 24 more children now mobile in Malawi thanks to KTCT. By the end of the year FOSCIM will have put together around 1,000 of these wheelchair case stories and the exercise never ceases to have an impact and only serves to remind us that whatever our gripes they pale into insignificance compared to the hand of cards dealt some folk in various other parts of the world. For the latest details on children helped, please read the following report: KTCT2020July7Download

Made With Hope – CHETI Primary School (Tanzania)

June 6, 2020Tags: , , , ,
CHETI’s Primary School is located in a rural community in Arushaand educates over 530 students from local villages. All of thechildren attending this school live in poverty. CHETI Primary Schoolranks very highly in national exams and is a chance for students toget out of the poverty cycle their families are trapped in. In 2018 this school was massively oversubscribed. The highdemand meant that all classes were above the optimal capacity of45 students. Grade 2 and 3 were in particular crisis; class sizes were84 and 66 with 3 or 4 students often sharing one desk (desks aresuitable for 2 students), putting…