January 2003 The first orphan centre, in Nsanje District opened, supporting over 1000 registered orphans and vulnerable children.
January 2005 Two new centres opened: in Lilongwe – with 250 registered children and a nursery school – and in Chitipa, with 700 registered children.
March 2006 JCT becomes a registered member of CONGOMA (Council for Non-Governmental Organisation of Malawi).
November 2006 Land donated by the local community in Lilongwe to build JCT’s first school. Brickmaking started.
August 2007 Small-scale irrigation schemes set up in four areas to create vegetable gardens for income generation.
November 2008 JCT mobile HIV/AIDS counselling and testing clinic set up in collaboration with Partners In Hope, a private hospital in Mutu village, Lilongwe.
June 2011 Goat and piglet loan schemes started to encourage livestock breeding at a local, household level.
March 2012 Rabbit-rearing scheme launched, providing food and income generation opportunities for families who cannot afford to rear livestock.
July 2013 Building work started to house live-in volunteer carers at each of our feeding centres, in Chitipa, Nsanje, Mangochi, and Lilongwe.
September 2014 Early Childhood Centre expansion, in Lilongwe, completed, providing a new kitchen, meeting hall, and centre manager’s house.
March 2015 Eco San toilets installed in Lilongwe, providing free, manure fertilizer for the wider community.
June 2015 The Ministry of Education and Science and Technology allocate 19 qualified teachers to the JCT primary school in Lilongwe.
October 2017 Official growth monitoring of the children starts in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.
