Community Caregivers on Campus
A huge thank you to Sentebale is in order (again!). In January 2015, TTL's Safe Home program highlighted one of its biggest weaknesses: separation & attachment. Whilst we do everything in our power...
View ArticleDifficult Case to Crack
This poor little girl has had an incredibly difficult start to life. TTL has been with her from day 10, but 1.5 years on we are still struggling to diagnose what is wrong with her. Her body refuses to...
View ArticleTongue-tied troubles at TTL
The TTL Safe Home welcomed one of our tiniest babies this week. At 5 weeks and just 2.7 kg, Leboneng has a z-score of -4, indicating critically severe acute malnutrition. Ideally, children should have...
View ArticleCleft Palate Conundrum
Two year old Seeiso waddled into our lives in November 2014 with severe malnutrition and an untreated cleft palate. At 7 months old a doctor visited his local clinic and identified the cleft palate and...
View ArticleFlash flood devastates TTL Campus
It is true that things can change in an instant. Out of nowhere yesterday afternoon, the TTL campus in Mokhotlong was hit hard by an intense storm that produced golfball-size hail, massive winds and...
View ArticleMokhotlong gears up for national election
Mokhotlong Camp Town was buzzing with energy and excitement this weekend, as supporters from 4 Mokhotlong districts flooded our small town for a political rally. The normally quiet village was...
View ArticleWhat a valuable Alliance..
Today we have welcomed the wonderful team from Alliance Insurance. Alliance has supported TTL for a number of years and 2014 was no different! Their brilliant CSR team organised a charity football...
View ArticleTTL is back online!! New website!
Watch out world, TTL is back online and looking better than ever! The creative genius, Mr Angel Escamilla, has designed a visually spectacular, wonderful and interactive new website for TTL and we...
View ArticleProgress Report on TTL's Tiny Twins!
You may remember TTL's tiniest twins, admitted to the Safe Home early in December? One month old they weighed no more than a bag of flour between the two of them! *Thuso was so severely malnourished he...
View ArticleGetting ready for Christmas!
MERRY CHRISTMAS - KERESEMESE E MONATEMokhotlong is getting green, the flowers are in bloom and there's excitement in the air....that can only mean one thing - the countdown to Christmas in Lesotho is...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day 2014
December 1st is World AIDS Day, where people around the globe come together to raise awareness for the achievements that have been made, the work that is currently being done, and highlight the...
View ArticleFood Crisis Christmas Appeal
This year has been incredibly difficult for our 330 clients in Mokhotlong and Thaba Tseka. Failed harvests and a late rainy season have left them in dire need of seeds, bumper food packages &...
View ArticleRea leboha Gem Diamonds!
TTL's MD with District Education Secretary,CEO of Gem Diamonds, Director of Sentebale, District Administrator, Prince Seeiso,UNICEF Representative &Minister of Health, On November 12th, Touching...
View ArticlePlanting seeds for change
Tanki gets into the gardening spirit!Responding to the chronic food shortage, TTL focuses on preventing and improving childhood malnutrition rates in the Mokhotlong and Thaba- Tseka districts of...
View ArticleHappy UN Day 2014
Today marks the 69th anniversary of the United Nations, an organisation founded on the very principals of peace and prosperity. UNICEF, a programme of the U.N devised which provides long-term...
View ArticleUnited Nations' International Day of Rural Women
A Basotho grandmother brings her little one for a check up with TTL. Every year, the UN invites us to celebrate the word-wide unsung heroes by celebrating International Day of Rural Women on October...
View ArticlePledge Your Birthday
Birthdays can be a nightmare.The incessant WhatsApps, emails and calls asking what you want for your big day? What on earth do you ask for when you've everything you could possibly need? Our newest...
View ArticleIndependence Day
Good Riddance, Brits!October 4th has come around again, bringing with it Besotho celebrations of independence from the British! Formerly Basutoland, the Kingdom of Lesotho had been a British colony for...
View ArticleEvacuation and ELMA Conference
What a month, Lesotho!Where to begin? Perhaps the alleged political coup or the Prime Minister flitting to and from South Africa like he's running a relay race or the renegade General-Lieutenant...
View ArticleMilitary coup in Lesotho? What on earth is going on?
It’s not often that Lesotho makes it to the international news scene. Not until now that is. Street vendor sells newspapers headlined "Lesotho in turmoil coup attempt" in Maseru, Lesotho.Read more...
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