Don't miss this forthcoming UgandAid event!
Saturday 4th July
from 6pm - 11pm
Beech House Farm Plumley
Advance tickets - £15 adult , £10 child, under 5's free. Family (2adult 2 children) £40
(on the door, £20 adult, £15 under 12's, £50 family )
Advance booking recommended , availability on the night not guaranteed!
Beer from the Storm Brewery,
All age donkey handling competition,
Raffle (prizes include pleasure flight in a light aircraft, private tour of Granada studios)
for tickets contact admin@ugandaid.com
tel Christine Booth (0161 283 2695)or Steve Edwards ( 07984468424)
Introduction to UgandAid
Uganda's recent history has involved turbulent civil war, violent dictatorship and more recently HIV/AIDS, which has left over a million children orphaned.
Poverty is widespread, most people live at a subsistence level and children commonly die from malaria, measles and diarrhoea. Primary education is almost universally accessible, but schooling after 11 years old is beyond the means of many families.
There's little hope of employment for most poor and orphaned youngsters in Uganda, and they desperately need an opportunity to learn skills to provide for themselves as they approach adulthood - a chance to break free from the trap of poverty.
UgandAid sponsors youngsters to learn vocational skills, so they can become self sufficient and break free of the grinding poverty trap.
How UgandAid began
From the outset we were impressed by all aspects of the work of Nile Vocational Institute and it's excellent success rate. It seemed obvious - rather than ‘reinvent the wheel’ we should work with this well-established Institute which had all the experience and infrastructure in place, yet had spare capacity for more students.
In 2002 we set up a sponsorship scheme to place students at NVI, where we could be confident of the quality of education and care students would receive even if we were 4000 miles away and unable to be involved on a daily basis ourselves. UgandAid has steadily grown, and now a total 0f 271 students have been placed at NVI through UgandAid.
Christine Booth (UgandAid co-ordinator)
