Provide Education to AIDS Orphans in Rural Uganda

Please enjoy this very short end-of-year video from the students and grandmothers of Nyaka and Kutamba. Your donations this year provided in 2012: •uniforms, textbooks, medical care, and nutritious meals, school supplies to nearly 600 students,•secondary school scholarships for primary school...

As the Holiday Season begins, we'd like to thank you for investing in the lives of our students and grandmothers in rural Uganda.   As you reflect on what you are grateful for in your own life, please know how grateful we are for your support, love, and care of our grannies and their orphaned grandchildren. Please...

As you may recall, the Girl Effect Challenge is in its final week.  While we are so grateful to you for your support to date, we have one final request for your help. If you enjoy this video as much as we think you will...would you ask 3 of your friends to watch it too? If every person who has given to The Nyaka AIDS...

Greetings from Team Nyaka! We have a special request today.  The Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project has been selected to participate in the Girl Effect Challenge.  We have a separate fundraising page for this initiative.  Please click here.   Same fabulous girls.  Same cause.  Same great...

Greetings from Team Nyaka! We have a special request today.  The Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project has been selected to participate in the Nike Girl Effect Challenge.  We have a separate fundraising page for this initiative.  Please click here.   Same fabulous girls.  Same cause.  Same great...

Dear Friends, A quick reminder.  As many of you know, GlobalGiving offers matching funds for projects several times throughout the year.  The final opportunity in 2011 is today. It is only through your continued generosity that we can provide our students access to an education, daily nutritional meals, medical...

Dear Friends, Before we update you on our students, we would like to let you know how you can help.  As many of you know, GlobalGiving offers matching funds for projects several times throughout the year.  The final opportunity in 2011 is on October 19th.  Please set an alarm and give generously that...

This month I am sharing with you testimonials from some of our brightest secondary students, an equivalent to middle school students in the United States.  He and his classmates recently attended a Health and Sex Education Camp put on by “Reach a Hand” a NGO out of Makerere University in collaboration...

We send you warm greetings from the children and grandmothers of Nyaka and Kutamba schools in Uganda.  We are grateful for your investment that has brought 10 years of improved conditions into the body, heart, mind, and soul of hundreds of children and thousands of grandmothers.  This year over 70 secondary...

Last month The Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project happily announced primary student Justine’s pending trip to the United States.  You may recall that a few years ago Justine was badly injured in an accident with a paraffin lamp. The purpose of this trip was to undergo surgery on burns that were inhibiting her ability to...

This month we received some tremendous good news!  You may recall that one of our students, Justine, suffered from a heartbreaking accident in 2007 that has left her with many burns and disfiguring wounds that impede the ability for her body to grow as it should.  Justine’s mom had given her a paraffin lamp...

The groundbreaking ceremony for our first clinic was held in December 2010, just after our the fourth graduating class of Nyaka School had accepted their diplomas with pride.  Every week we recieve new photos documenting the process of building a clinic for the people we serve in southwestern Uganda. Today, that...

Dear Nyaka Family, Thanks to your ongoing support, we have so much to celebrate!  Over the last 10 years, The Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project has seen incredible growth and change. This growth and change can also be seen in all of our students, their Grandmothers and our surrounding communities. Please join me as Nyaka...

Happy New Year! We have just recieved wonderful news from Nyaka School in Nyakagyezi, Uganda.  On December 28, 2010 we celebrated the graduation of our fourth class.  We are happy to announce that all 29 of our students passed their final exams. 19 passed with an A+, 9 with an A and 1 with a C.  We...

For the first time in history, the communities we serve in rural southwestern Uganda have access to a full service library!  We are excited to report to you, our supporters, all of the benefits that they will receive from the Blue Lupin Community Library.  Education is a priority to the Nyaka AIDS Orphans School...

Dear Friends, It has been a busy 5 months since I started working full-time for Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project. In addition to raising money for our students, I have been traveling around the country promoting my book “The Price of Stones” which outlines how the Nyaka dream became a reality over 9 years ago....

Dear Friends and Supporters, Our comprehensive Annual Report and 990 for 2009 are published. There is a wealth of information in this year's report on each of our programs, the progress we have made, and where we plan to go from here. Skip to the program which your heart is most particularly drawn to. Read over our...

Dear Friends, We have recently been published in TIME Magazine, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio (NPR). News about the work we do, the children, grandmothers, and communities we serve, and how successful our holistic community development model is in Uganda is rapidly spreading across the...

Dear Friends, Please allow me to share a link to an article in Time Magazine this week of June 14, 2010. Watch the video and see the amazing work you have invested your money in. http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,89822614001_1994042,00.html...

Dear Nyaka Supporters, We would like to introduce our long awaited Nyaka Notes Newsletter for Spring 2010. Everything that you love about Nyaka is waiting for you in this newsletter including interviews with our students on their progress in secondary school, a letter from our Board Chair on the progress he is seeing on...

Dear Friends, Our students' results are in for their Primary Level Exams (PLE)! Students who scored a Grade A+: 8 Students who scored a Grade B+: 17 Students who scored a Grade B-: 1 and Students who scored a Grade C: 0 Not a single student failed the PLE. Our top scoring students in Grade A+ have been...

Dear Friends, First of all Nyaka would like to wish you a Happy Holidays. Certainly these holidays are going to be some of the happiest in years for Nyaka. Some of you may have heard that a serious drought has been affecting Eastern Africa and Uganda has not been spared. However, the rains came on schedule in...

As 2009 comes to the end, I would like to thank you once again for your support, care, and love. We graduated one class of 21 students last year, 21 students went on to secondary school, one student joined vocational training. This year we are graduating 26 students, our teachers tell me all 26 will pass their exams to...

Dear Nyaka friends, collaborators, and investors, We've put together a comprehensive update on all of our programs and what they have accomplished so far this year. If you are somewhat unfamiliar with the history of a program the update makes sure to bring you up to speed on the mission and past accomplishments of the...

Brian Banks is a student who is traveling throughout Africa this summer and visiting a number of GlobalGiving projects. On May 19th he visited "Provide education to AIDS orphans in rural Uganda." When asked what he would tell his friends about this project, Brian said: “Incredible: You need to see this!" While talking...

Greetings from the Nyaka AIDS Foundation. We have lots of new things to show you. Brace yourself! I'll spread this over a couple of updates. Our secondary school students are doing extremely well. In fact, among his 106 peers, one of our students got first place in his 1st term exam results. Check out an excel...

Read about our 1st. graduation and view pictures from the event.

Please read our latest newsletter.

View this document to see how far Nyaka has come and how many people our work affects in southwestern Uganda.

Listen to Tom Rico's PeacePodcast interview with Nyaka's Communication Manager, Chris Singer.

Please view our May-July report from on the ground in Uganda.

Our 1st graduation is only 152 days away! Please visit our website to see our Graduation Page. More details and updates are available on our website as well. The best is yet to come...

Visit our new blog and online store. Through CafePress, the Nyaka store is the place to get your Nyaka gear and show your support of Nyaka whereever you live. All proceeds from store sales go toward Nyaka's nutrition program.

Dear Supporters of Nyaka's project: We would like to share with you some recent coverage of our project and Jackson's story and how and why he started this project. Read more below. Thanks for your support! --------------------------------------------- MSU Extension Spotlight A Social Entrepreneur Among...

Encouraging your friends to get involved will help us serve more children and their grandmothers. http://www.ugpulse.com/articles/daily/Education

In honor of World AIDS Orphans Day, Nyaka has a new video, "One Child At a Time," posted on YouTube.

Check out our latest newsletter! You can also access the newsletter online. See the link below.

I just returned from a 10 day visit to Uganda. My first trip to Nyaka and Kutamba was truly memorable. The courage and spirit of these children struck me very deeply. Nyaka and Kutamba are truly havens for these children who have been through so much at such a young age. There are so many needs and so much work to...

This video was made by Eric Rudd from Indiana who visted our schools. It shows you a difference between those orphans in our schools and those left behind. With your support we will continue to help more children. They all deserve our care and love. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1463340852

Here is our January 2008 update from Nyaka AIDS Orphans School.

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Dear Nyaka friends: On behalf of the students, volunteers and staff of Nyaka, I would like to thank you for your support, love, and care. Nyaka, as we affectionately call it, was established in April 2001 with a mission to provide quality, free education and extracurricular activities, both formal and informal, to...