Housing & Education for AIDS orphaned girls

Educate African Orphans

Summary

To provide a boarding home setting to educate orphaned children, providing them with the basic skills to become self-sufficient and escape child labor, prostitution, and death by poverty and AIDS.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $5,466 was raised for this project.

Received $5,466 from 62 donations from people like:

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

One out of every 6 Ugandan children is an orphan. The Great Aubrey School in Tororo has a population of 384 children and counting. Another 400 children fostered in the community attend school. AIDS has robbed them of parents. Poverty and lack of education can rob them of a future and even of life itself. Efforts by the community energized by a local Catholic priest have given them hope: The generosity of others can help them realize that hope by providing safe housing for vulnerable young girls.

Activities

The goal of the project is to build a girls dormitory. Currently, the girls are vulnerable due to the location of the school near an industrial site.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,466

Funding Policy: subsidized/guaranteed

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $5,466 as of Feb 26, 2004.  The original project funding goal was $15,473.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The new facility will enable the well-trained staff to continue as moral and ethical role models to teach by example while providing safety, education, food and medical supplies.

Project Message

The heart of this project lies in the love and commitment of the local people who take care of their own communities' most disadvantaged group: Orphans of largely AIDS-destroyed families.
- Father Centurio Olaboro, Director

Who is Running This Project

Contact



PO Box 39
Busia,
Uganda
75 62 1145
Email:

Project Sponsor

The River Fund

Organization

The River Fund
11155 Roseland Road, Unit 16
Sebastian, Florida 32958
United States
772 589-5076
http://www.riverfund.org

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in UgandaUganda and can also be found under EducationEducation.

For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 7, 2003