Global Challenge was set-up as an outreach charity by Queens Road Baptist Church in Broadstairs.  The charity works collaboratively with partners in the Soroti region of Uganda to initiate and maintain a range of projects focusing on education, alleviating poverty and establishing initiatives aimed at improving self-sufficiency.  Over the past ten years, the charity has built up closely established personal links with co-workers in Soroti, resulting in a high level of accountability.  The projects are closely monitored and reviewed with our partners. Global Challenge is run by Trustees in the UK who are all non-salaried volunteers and seeks to find practical ways of bringing social justice and equality to those in need.

The History - In 2001 a team of nine visited Tororo and Soroti and were able to conduct a number of village clinics. The team included a doctor, trained medical staff and two dentists. Hundreds of people from neighbouring villages attended the clinics during the two week period and the team was able to provide some basic nutritional education.

By 2003 strong links had been made with our Ugandan partners and a number of smaller groups from QRBC made visits to help establish projects that in consultation with local people would provide support to the community. At that time the “keep fit cow project” was started with support from the local community in Broadstairs.

Following the terrible problems with the LRA between 2001-2005, a team of twenty visited   Uganda for two weeks.  It was during this time that the building at Nakatunya was added to and the sewing project began. It became clear following this visit that if the projects were to move forward and become sustainable it would need a dedicated group who could secure long-term funding and develop further projects. Out of that, Global Challenge was born.