June 30, 2014
It's time to start thinking/dreaming big for our charity and the kids in the program.
We have struggled for so long to keep these kids in school.
Often either a child will leave the program or a sponsor will stop helping
the kids they have chosen (which leaves a deficit ) if we can't find another sponsor to help.
Both of these circumstances make it hard on us as sometimes if a child leaves a sponsor
won't wish to choose another since they had a close friendship to ones they
had been supporting.
We are a small charity and we want to keep growing each year.
We've never been able to reach out to many areas due to
lack of enough donors but this year we have successfully
put 104 students in primary / Secondary schools located in 4 areas of Uganda.
The students come from 4 different villages , but our main project and largest
number of kids are from Mbiko where our work began in mid 2010.
Looking ahead to the rest of this year,
We have a possible 5k race that will fundraise for the purchase of land in
as in 1 or 2 acres just to get us started in our hopes to build a small school
to reach out to even more than the 100 we're currently helping. That would be something
like a 3-5 year plan as that's how long its taken most school to buy land and build.
Nothing happens fast in Africa.
A typical school takes in 200-300 kids yearly. We want to have our own school so we don't have
deal with typical issues that happen in Ugandan run schools like poor feeding, overcrowding of kids
in classroom and dorms, teachers hitting students with sticks and just a lack of care for kids in general.
We plan to fix all those issues and run a school properly with high standards.
WE plan to sell shirts, jewelry, purses and choir cds (all things we've currently been selling)
to raise more money to go towards the purchase of land and eventually building on it.
I saw many beautiful pieces of land during my last trip but most were above our budget
Costs for other things as we look ahead, just to give you an idea.
These things aren't unreachable by any means
as many orgs have done this before .
We just need to everyone's help in recruiting new sponsors so we
can help even more kids!
Bedding for dorms
Sheets $9
Blankets $14
Bunk beds $60- $80
Soap $2/ child
Buckets $3/ child
It's time to start thinking/dreaming big for our charity and the kids in the program.
We have struggled for so long to keep these kids in school.
Often either a child will leave the program or a sponsor will stop helping
the kids they have chosen (which leaves a deficit ) if we can't find another sponsor to help.
Both of these circumstances make it hard on us as sometimes if a child leaves a sponsor
won't wish to choose another since they had a close friendship to ones they
had been supporting.
We are a small charity and we want to keep growing each year.
We've never been able to reach out to many areas due to
lack of enough donors but this year we have successfully
put 104 students in primary / Secondary schools located in 4 areas of Uganda.
The students come from 4 different villages , but our main project and largest
number of kids are from Mbiko where our work began in mid 2010.
Looking ahead to the rest of this year,
We have a possible 5k race that will fundraise for the purchase of land in
as in 1 or 2 acres just to get us started in our hopes to build a small school
to reach out to even more than the 100 we're currently helping. That would be something
like a 3-5 year plan as that's how long its taken most school to buy land and build.
Nothing happens fast in Africa.
A typical school takes in 200-300 kids yearly. We want to have our own school so we don't have
deal with typical issues that happen in Ugandan run schools like poor feeding, overcrowding of kids
in classroom and dorms, teachers hitting students with sticks and just a lack of care for kids in general.
We plan to fix all those issues and run a school properly with high standards.
WE plan to sell shirts, jewelry, purses and choir cds (all things we've currently been selling)
to raise more money to go towards the purchase of land and eventually building on it.
I saw many beautiful pieces of land during my last trip but most were above our budget
Costs for other things as we look ahead, just to give you an idea.
These things aren't unreachable by any means
as many orgs have done this before .
We just need to everyone's help in recruiting new sponsors so we
can help even more kids!
Bedding for dorms
Sheets $9
Blankets $14
Bunk beds $60- $80
Soap $2/ child
Buckets $3/ child
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