Our Past Projects

The Link has run a number of projects over the years.  

As the Link is an independent charity, with the aim of development, it was able to bid for money from the EU and British Overseas Development Agency. 

That, and the generosity of the Diocese and people of Durham, enabled a Basotho team to plant 250,000 trees to provide fuel and reduce soil erosion, from initial ideas in 1986, starting planting in 1993/4, through to 1998.

A new, enlarged, replacement clinic, in the mountains at Ha Popa, served by St James Hospital, Mantsonyane, was built and opened in 1993.  

A Microenterprise Project ran for three years from 1994. It was aimed to enable Basotho to set up small businesses.

A Schools Poultry Project, to address hunger, was started and ran for a while. 

From 1993 the Youth Activities Project gave 25000 Basotho youth experiences of canoeing, (in fibreglass canoes made by the leaders), swimming, climbing and other outdoor activities.

OAK, The Outdoor Activities club continues this work and trains new leaders.

In 1995 a major centre was opened at Ha Mohatlane near Teyateyaneng, about an hours drive from Maseru. There is a church, a school, a clinic and a vocational training scheme with about 100 students. Today the Link engages with children from Child-Headed Households in the area and has a worker there.  

At the height of the epidemic from 2005 to 2014, 1000 children took part in Schools HIV/AIDS Peer Educators (SHAPE) courses. This gave children an activity holiday, and taught them about AIDS, to pass on to school peers.

Between 2009 and 2017, 1200 children benefitted from a day on The Active Learning Project.

From 2002, until Covid curtailed it, disadvantaged children from a Coalition of a number of NGO’s came each week for activities.