By Onyango Joseph | Executive Director
Progressive report for Educate 600 Orphans in Rural Eastern Uganda
Year beginning 2016
By Onyango Joseph – Executive Director RARUDO
RARUDO is beginning the year 2016 in mighty way as we send our sincere gratitude to our dear donors who have stood with us all past years; we wish you A Happy New Year and Prosperous Future.
We are so thankful for your generous support and are excited to share our progress updates with you.
This year out of 600 children we got 23 children who passed in first grade in the last PLE 2015, 36 second grade, 102 third grade and others were promoted to upper classes primary, 2 to secondary school respectively for next academic year 2016 and one (Fredrick) at the St Laurence University who is to graduate this year.
We thank you once again for the generous support of USD.23, 000 which we received towards the end of 2015; USD 14,568.75 was spent on schooling materials for the OVCs and USD. 8,431.25 is to support women with improved vegetable seeds in this year planting season 2016 which benefits the children as well. (We shall submit the report for women with its breakdown in next quarter).
We are grateful and believe this will take us another mile in helping our children since the schools will be opening on 22/ Feb/ 2016 after the general elections.
The breakdown of USD 14,568.75 = UG X 43,520,000 being received at rate of 3,200/= per 1 USD and spent on schooling materials for the OVCs (orphans and other vulnerable children) is as below:
Schooling Materials Qty Unit Cost in UG. Shs. Amount UG. Shs
Uniforms 558 pupils 28,000 15,624,000
Exercise books 96 pgs 1 Dozen X 420 pupils 8,000 3,360,000
Black books 15 books X 89 pupils 5,200 6,942,000
Pens for 5 pens x 558 700 1,953,000
Pencils 10 pcs x 558 300 1,674,000
Geometry sets 1 x 558 6000 3,348,000
Foot Rulers 1 x 558 1500 837,000
Washing soap 2 x558 5,500 6,138,000
Slippers 558 pairs 5,500 3,069,000
Fees top up 35 students 105,000 3,675,000
Total 46,620,000 UGS
Achievements.
It is our joy that the recent made us for the first time get 23 first grades to pass the PLE, among which 5 are girls. This will benefit directly the orphans and other vulnerable children.
Tororo 268 OVCs
Busia 178 OVCs
Bugiri 112 OVCs
The overwhelming increase of the vulnerability among children due to abject poverty raises our concerns to find measures to control dire need of the support for children and their families.
Challenges:
As the schools are opening late just because of the general election which is due 18th Feb. 2016 as result of this we are anticipating late reporting back school.
All our gratitude and regards go to all our donors at Global Giving, The River Fund, Uganda government, local leaders and all well wishers for supporting our cause of bringing hope to the vulnerable community we serve most especially the young generations.
I remain yours faithfully,
Onyango Joseph
Executive Director
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