With Thanks

In April 2006, the Jephcott Trust donated a most generous sum of £10,000 for the mechanics building project. With this enormous boost, and other donations, the buildning was more or less complete by the end of December 2006. We wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to the Trustees of The Jephcott Trust for making this possible.

Many thanks also for a kind donation of £500 from the Message Trust, Manchester, which will be used for student sponsorship.

Following on from building the Mechanics Facility our next hurdle was to equip it . Our thanks go to Mark Mitchell, managing director of the Mitchell Group and his Team for £5,000 towards tools and their ongoing support of this project.

The monies from Mitchells seemed to grow significantly in the hands of Draper Tools, which donated the balance of all the requirements for hand tools. Draper Tools' significant input has made the world of difference.

Our hearfelt thanks also go to the many individuals who gave so generously to both build and equip the mechanics training facility. They are not named here, but they know who they are. Such generosity has not only given young people in Uganda the chance of learning a valuable trade, but also will hopefully contribute to safer vehicles and less injury and death on the roads in the future.

What an experience the opening of the mechanics training facility at NVI was, not a dry eye in the house. Thank you to everyone who has made this dream come true, we have been blessed by the generosity of organisations and individuals alike. The cherry on the cake was the arrival of the Draper tools whilst we were in Jinja for the opening; our thanks go to Kuehne and Nagel (and especially Pete and his team) for organising this and meeting the freight costs.

Thanks to Beachcroft Wansborough in Manchester, who have kindly supported us with donations, and in May 2008 a number of employees ran in the Manchester 10k and presented UgandAid with a wonderful donation of £2000.