By way of background, the charity came out of a chance conversation between Ann McCarthy and myself. Ann was already working in Uganda and I had recently set up Ethnic Supplies to enable African women involved in handicrafts and textile production to access the UK market.                 Contd… NewsletterLTHT Summer 2011.

Dear Friends                                                                              June 2011 This is a just a  personal note in advance of your receiving a full newsletter from our charity “Let Them Help Themselves out of Poverty”. On behalf of the CBO and the villagers of Ruhanga, Denis and I both want to thank you so much for all you have done and the different […]

    Ruhanga Lodge Community Project News – March 2011 The School Our school now has 234 children attending. Out of these approx. 175 are sponsored, but we still need more people to come forward and send us just £3.50 a month per child. Two more classrooms have been built for P1 and P2 and another […]

  Our School Feb 2011 In Uganda the school year started on 31 January. Over the Christmas holidays we have built two new classrooms, making a total of 7. We now have 3 baby classes, middle and a top and then Primary 1 and now Primary 2. We have over 200 children registered to start […]

Ruhanga Community Project/ Uganda Lodge update 2010 Dear friends/supporters, Well the end of 2010 is almost here and thought i would put a short piece together about what we have achieved so far this year and the plans we have in place for the next. We started 2010 with about 40 children in the school, […]

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We raised sufficient money to distribute mosquito nets to 250 village families in 2010  http://www.againstmalaria.com/Distribution.aspx?ProposalID=169&distributionID=539