TWOAT projects providing aid to the developing world.
Burkina-Faso, Kenya, Tanzania, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Madagascar, West Papua, Zambia, Lesvos, Malawi, Uganda
Project News 2025
We do not undertake project work ourselves but we support others who do.
We typically identify projects through direct contact via some local resident.
INTERNATIONAL NEEDS, BURKINA FASO
Burkina Faso, like other countries across the Sahel area of north central Africa is in the grips of civil war. Some children have sought refuge in schools for safety but also to receive education. 2 children that TWOAT supports are Luc Boyer Sanou, 13 who wrote recently that ‘after my studies, I would like to be an English teacher’ and Justine Sankara who is 18 and is working hard ‘to be a midwife’. Both students write regularly in response to letters that we write to them.
SEURR SANG’HIDA TRUST – ENTASOPIA PRIMARY SCHOOL, NKURUMAN, KENYA
The disabled in the village community have been helped to help themselves and are no longer in need of financial support from the UK – we will keep in touch with their progress.
BREAD, BEREGA, TANZANIA
We continue to receive regular reports detailing the patients currently being supported by the Epilepsy clinic which TWOAT, with expert help from one of our supporters, was instrumental in creating within Berega Hospital. We fund the drugs being dispensed plus the salary and travel expenses of the clinician who regularly visits some of the 60 or so patients who reside in outlying villages.
FISH EAGLE (SUBUTINI) SCHOOL, TANZANIA
This past year, the school at Subutuni that we support has seen plenty of activity. A new classroom has been built as well as a veranda decking. TWOAT has been supporting the building of a new library and in the last few months doors have been installed and windows are to be installed soon. New shelving and desks will be built in the coming months. A priority now is for water tanks to be installed for the school children as well as the community at large.
MTANDIKA TRADE SCHOOL, TANZANIA
We continue to get excellent feedback from our contacts and have heard that the new Hotel and Management which we helped to fund is being very successful. We provided extra funds this year to replace damaged solar
panels and batteries that were no longer effective. The school had previously had to restrict the period when lighting was available at night but can now allow all lights to be used again.
CALCUTTA CATHEDRAL RELIEF SERVICE (CRS), INDIA
TWOAT support to CRS helps the poorest in Calcutta’s slums through education, and weekend schools for children who need to work during the week to support their families. A worthwhile project currently taking place is sewing
uniforms for children. Uniforms remove external signs of difference and the women sewing them have been trained in the skill by CRS. A recent women’s empowerment programme enables women who might otherwise be forced to
work far from home or turn to prostitution, the skill to earn a respectable living. It will make a profound difference to their lives.
EMMANUEL SCHOOL, THAI BORDER WITH MYANMAR (BURMA)
Unfortunately the decision of the US Government to withdraw aid has cut the money available to feed the refugees in half. The lunches we fund for the children are now more important than ever. We are in discussion with the
school as to whether it would be possible to fund extra food on Mondays and Fridays as the children may not get any food at the weekend. We sent our £6000 contribution to lunch costs in September plus an extra £1,000 to fund what additional food that the school may be able to provide.
NEPALESE SCHOOL TEACHERS, KERUNG, NEPAL (in the foothills of Mt Everest)
The school in the foothills of Everest is running well with many happy children and teachers. Our Sherpa contact has found work now that tourists are returning to the area. We are funding two teachers. We are in close contact with the school via WhatsApp and although it is in the vicinity of Mount Everest he has told us that it was not impacted by the recent extreme snow falls and earthquakes reported there by UK news outlets.
AMBONDROMIFEHY LITTLE SAPPHIRES (LES PETITS SAPHIRS) SCHOOL, MADAGASCAR
A small nursery school was established in 2011 by the Mothers Union in a poor, mining area of northern Madagascar, backed by funding from TWOAT. Its main aim was to give parents an alternative to taking their very
young children with them to the mining fields, and to provide them with education and a good meal. It has been so successful that in 2014 parents asked for it to extend into primary years. It now provides 2 nursery and 5 primary years. In the school year which has just begun there are 130 children benefitting from Les Petits Saphirs. TWOAT’s financial support is £8,300pa which represents 60% of the school budget. We are very grateful that St Peter’s Church in Walton have committed to providing £2,000pa of that sum.
FRIENDS OF LUDHIANA HOSPITAL, INDIA
TWOAT’s support towards the hospital in Ludhiana has contributed towards the purchase of much needed laparoscopic equipment and our ‘timely support has enabled us to take a significant step forward in enhancing the
quality and precision of surgical care provided to our patients. Your donation will make a tangible difference in the lives of those we serve.’
PAPUA PARTNERS, WEST PAPUA
We have been contributing the wage off Yepina. Her work continues to be very impactful in preventing genderbased violence and mobilising communities for social change. Yasumat, the local organisation working under the auspices of Papua Partners, are now working with about 50 local churches amongst the Yali, Hupla and Kimyal tribes in the remote Yahukimo region. They courageously lead training workshops and discussions with local churches and young people on how to challenge and stop violence against women and create healthy relationships and families.
RAINBOW AFRICA, ZAMBIA
Rainbow Africa provides the opportunity for education for many children, and over the years they have set up a number of schools spread across the local towns and villages in South Zambia. They take tremendous pride in their top-performing schools – Livingstone Pre-School, Kings Primary School, Malime Pre-School, Ngweze Community School and Muzoka Pre-School – and we are passionate about giving children the opportunity to learn. We continue to sponsor 3 children at the Kings Primary School. Note that the primary school has nine grades, thus going up to Year 9 or more. ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’. Nelson Mandela
FISHERMAN’S REST (TREE PLANTING PROJECT), MALAWI
Fisherman’s Rest is one of our most exciting project, partly due to our contact, Joe Robinson, who spoke to us at our Annual Social last year. There are many aspects to their work. We are concentrating on the ecologiagroforestry.
We have learnt that there is a lot of science about successful tree planting in Malawi. Also, as Joe says, it is all about relationships. Taking the local farmers with you is the key to planting and maintaining woodland in Malawi. Without this work, Malawi would become denuded of trees in a few years.
Project Links
BURKINA FASO
KENYA
MADAGASCAR
MALAWI
TANZANIA
ZAMBIA
INDIA
WEST PAPUA
OTHER PROJECTS
We continue to support a project in Ukraine caring for orphans called SOS Childrens’ Villages. This focuses on family-based care to prevent institutionalisation of children. Our £1,000 funding will enhance support for children impacted by the conflict, particularly those suffering from severe anxiety and sleep disorders due to trauma from the war.
In Africa, we support Motivation which provides wheelchairs and via RUSH UK we supported a pupil at their school in Kenya.
We take electrical and other tools to a workshop for volunteers to refurbish them for shipment overseas for villagers starting sustainable livelihoods. Contact Dick Shelley about donating tools or volunteering.
2023
The funds we send to Ludhiana Hospital in India allow poorer patients to be treated by the hospital.
We continue to support children to attend school in Uganda via Rainbow Africa and we fund a community worker seeking to empower women via Papua Partners.
We have also continued supporting a project caring for Ukrainian Orphans called SOS Childrens’ Villages and Motivation providing wheelchairs in Africa.
We took two loads of mostly electrical tools for refurbishment to the “Tools for Self-reliance” depot in Carshalton. These were well received as there is no longer much need overseas for hand garden tools!
2022
The funds we sent to Ludhiana Hospital in India allowed poorer patients with COVID to be treated by the hospital. We previously helped fund eye camps at St Luke’s Hospital in India but our contacts there have now retired to live in the UK.
Summer Camps we supported in Albania have also been discontinued for the time being. We had difficulty contacting the Let It Grow project which has run small water pipelines to a village a few miles from Lake Malawi but we understand it is still active.
We continue to support Rainbow Africa and Papua Partners and to send refurbished old hand tools to Africa via “Tools for Self-reliance”.