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Trustees visit to Uganda Earlier this year we visited Uganda and were delighted with what we saw. Jan Sharp (our VSO volunteer) has been doing a great job and we’ve taken on some new projects and are helping more students. Plus, we met some truly inspiring people and had some amazing experiences. |
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NATIONAL COMMUNITY OF WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS (NACWOLA) One of our new projects is working with Nacwola to enable 25 children to attend primary school. Many of these come from ‘child-headed’ families as their parents have died from Aids. Children in this situation cannot afford either fees or equipment so we pay for both. Here you can see them in their very best clothes as they have come to collect their equipment, including for many their first ever pair of shoes. |
RAILWAY VOCATIONAL PROGRAMME Monica is one of the girls who couldn’t afford to go to secondary school but has learned to sew through the Railway vocational programme we fund. She is now able to eke out a living from this skill – here she is making sports uniforms for the school. It was both uplifting and sobering to hear their stories. One was delighted and proud that she was able to earn £7 per month and that she has managed to save £30 in the last year. Tiny amounts but enough to give them indepedence and hope. |
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SPONSORED STUDENT SUCCESS Caroline, pictured here on the right of Olivia (the headteacher of Railway school) is one of the sponsored students who had dropped out of secondary school when her guardian died. After this she was working in the school kitchen. Our sponsorship enabled her to complete her A levels. When she heard that we were coming to Railway she came with a gift to thank us. We have since heard that she got 25 out of 25 (equivalent to 4 As) which means she has a government-sponsored place at University. |
ACTION TO SUPPORT ORPHANS AND DISADVANTAGED (ASOD) Another of our new projects is working with ASOD to help pay for teachers at a secondary school attached to an orphanage. ASOD is the brainchild of a remarkable man - John - who works as a doctor and has established (and helps to fund) an orphanage for street kids. As well as giving them a place to sleep he has also set up a school for them. This is chronically underfunded with a high turnover of teachers. We are helping to pay teacher salaries to stop them from leaving. |
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BUSOCO SCHOOL The entire board of govenors turned out to thank us for the desks and equipment we provided to Busoco school. Here are some of the children and teachers who will get to use them. |
BANANULE SCHOOL KIDS We attempted to revive the 70s by playing “Runaround” (remember Mike Reid) with the children during their assembly at Banunule. This is the primary school that many of our sponsored students attended. Here are the winners of the game. |
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LESSONS FOR LIFE SPONSORED STUDENTS We met up with most of LfL sponsored secondary students (about half are pictured here). Having met some of them two years ago (as our first intake) it was really rewarding to see how they have grown in confidence. However, it wasn’t
all easy
– we had to warn one about his behaviour and to tell another
that he couldn’t
return to school this year (as his motivation and behaviour were not
acceptable). |
If you’d like to see
some
more photos of our trip or some videos of the assembly we attended
please click
here. We’d like to point
out that
not a single penny was taken from LfL for the trip.
We treated this as a working holiday and paid
for ourselves. 100%
of your donations
continue to directly benefit students. We’re still looking for sponsors for the children we took on this year so please get in touch if you know anyone who would like to sponsor a child. Thanks once again for your support – you are all magnificent. The
Trustees |