world earth day
KEEPING OUR GIRLS IN SCHOOL
At Beta Charitable Trust, we believe passionately that education is a fundamental right for everyone and nobody should miss out on their education because of poverty and especially NOT PERIOD POVERTY.
We have been working with our partners CHEPS in rural and urban KENYA and with our partners , DESK AND CHAIR Foundation in Moshi, Arusha for the cottage industry production of Reusable Sanitary Kits. We are delighted that we have distributed over 13,800 kits so far.
Kits are distributed by dedicated health professionals who champion the “Keeping Our Girls In School” Campaign with the local education authorities and explain the importance of feminine hygiene to the students.
The campaign empowers the women and girls themselves by providing seamstresses with a valuable income and ensuring access to sanitary products to combat period poverty.
We are delighted to have recently supported CLICKRukiga in launching the production of reusable sanitary pads for the youth in the county of Kamwezi in Uganda. BCT organised readymade reusable packs ordered from our partners in Arusha and we match funded the amount raised by CLICKRukiga to get the project into motion.
On World Earth Day, the positive impact of this campaign on the Earth’s environmental crisis cannot be underestimated; reducing throw away sanitary products that are high in plastic and chemical content and the high production costs that those incur are just some of the ways the ecologically sound packs are helping environmental challenges.
AFGHANISTAN EMERGENCY HOUSING APPEAL
A devastating 6.3 magnitude earthquake destroyed at least 12 villages near the city of Herat on Saturday 7th October.
STRIVING AGAINST STARVATION 2024
Our annual food parcel programme provides aid to the poorest and most deprived communities.
Yemen appeal
It’s currently the worlds worst humanitarian disaster, and yet the world is completely silent. More than 24 million Yemenis - 80% of the population - are in urgent need of assistance.
rOHINGYA cOMMUNITY APPEAL
The plight of the Rohingya people is a desperately sad and forgotten one.
A devastating fire swept through the Rohingya refugee camp on Saturday 7th January, destroying 1,000 shelters and leaving over 7,000 people without a home.
Our partners on the ground are already on the ground supporting victims at this critical time.
Over 740,000 people from the Rohingya community fled to cross the border of Myanmar to escape into Cox’s Bazar, amid the increasingly horrific and violent conflict that was unfolding in their homeland.
The community within this horrendous refugee camp has no hope of change.
Latest News
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Junnar United English School Extension 2023
2017 saw the official completed construction of one of BCT’s biggest school projects to date, with a capacity of 500 students.
Due to natural growth the Junnar United English School is ready to extended.
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Anamil Al Rahma School
Having already sponsored 3 brand new classrooms for the Anamil Al Rahma School in Diwaniyah, Iraq construction is now under way on a third floor extension.
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Eye camps
Cataracts and uncorrected refractive errors are the two leading causes of visual impairment around the world and there are over 90% of people suffering from visual impairment live in developing countries. Cataract surgery can take minutes, but cataracts still cause 49% of the world’s blindness due to lack of optical aid.
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Water Projects
The World Heath Organisation in 2022 estimated that over 2 billion people worldwide are drinking unsafe water from hand-dug wells, ponds, swamps, rivers and springs. Contaminated water can transmit diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio which are estimated to cause 485,000 deaths each year.
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Yemen appeal
It’s currently the world’s worst humanitarian disaster, and yet the world is completely silent. More than 24 million Yemenis - 80% of the population - are in urgent need of assistance.
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Afghanistan appeal
The dire political situation in Afghanistan has placed millions at risk. The people need your help now.
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Tree planting project
Our work takes us all over east Africa. Find out more about how we’re planting trees near our educational and health projects in the region.
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Homeless essential backpacks
As lockdown restrictions continue to ease, Greater London’s homeless population is seeing what little shelter was being provided to them stripped away. After a year of economic turmoil and rising unemployment, homelessness is now increasing on our capital’s streets.
Building, Changing, Transforming
Beta Charitable Trust has worked passionately in some of the most destitute and deprived areas of the world to provide basic human rights to the poorest of individuals. We believe that clean water, sanitation, food, medical care and education are the fundamental rights of every human being.
With the continued support of our generous and dedicated donors and supporters we have managed to widen the areas we work in and are changing the lives of more people than ever before. We are committed to supporting short term relief and disaster projects as well as long term humanitarian alleviation projects regardless of race, nationality, geography, creed and colour.
Projects are carried out on both a local and an international level with the majority of our work taking place in the UK, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Beta Charitable Trust runs with a zero administration charge policy. Our supporters donate confidently that every precious penny is utilised solely for the project it was intended.