Reach The Children Inc

Programs: Stay alive - rtc is especially concerned about children orphaned because of aids. Rtc aims to lower aids incidence by teaching whole communities the aids prevention education program called stay alive. By training country officials, teachers, parent/guardians and children in tanzania, kenya, uganda, ghana, liberia and nigeria, everyone in the community is working on the problem in the same manner and at the same time.

education - rtc assists or directly operates schools in several african countries, including kenya, uganda, ghana, & sierra leone. Rtc provides useful resources to assist in raising the quality of education for children and to increase the number of children reached with educational opportunities orphan care

water and agriculture - rtc drills wells and pumps water, do water-harvesting projects at schools and community buildings, provide clean drinking water and water for small farm irrigation by improving sprongs and cementing water holes and springs. Provide seeds, fertilizer and tools for gardening and farming, teach several methods of gardening and rtc does larger farm projects such as palm oil farms, tree farms, onion farms, maize farms, etc.

micro-enterprise -rtc helps people engage in sustainable livelihoods for the support of their families, by providing training and micro-loans to motivated individuals. Rtc acquires the funds, finds mentors and administrators and solicits loan applicants for participation in uganda, kenya, ghana, tanzania, madagascar and nigeria. Micro-loans are also given in the form of livestock wherein a farmer pays back the loan by passing the first 2 female offspring (cows, goats and sheep) on to other farmers so that they inturn can also start their own herds. Rtc furnishes the first animals to begin the process in an area or within an established self-help group. Agriculture & water - rtc collaborates with communities to make water available for irrigation, agriculture purposes & daily survival. Rtc adopts a teach as you go focus and connects square foot gardening to all projects so that schools, families and whole communities can benefit from the growing of food to supplement the daily diet. Community empowerment - rtc helps local communities through development of centers from whence each of the focus programs can be launched, mentored and monitored as needed, for long-term effect, and any given community. These centers, if a physical building, can provide a gathering place for the community to meet, a teaching/training facility, storage areas for shipping commodities produced by the communities, distribution of incoming donations and revenue and a center for all productive community activity. The community development concept takes place even without a physical building and in some areas is just an organized group working together for something better to take place in their lives. Orphan care - rtc assists families to become self-sustaining, thus enabling them to care for the growing number of orphans in their own communities.