By Alison Hall | Founder of Seeds for Development
Here we are at the end of another wonderful year at Seeds for Development.
All of the nursery schools we support (5) had graduation ceremonies – they take it VERY seriously! In late November/early December I attended 4 of them and whilst they were all different, one thing really struck me. All of the children look so healthy and that is quite simply down to their daily cup of porridge. Thanks to your kindness and generosity, we can focus our attention on supporting other projects and nursery schools. In fact, we are planning to support 2 more in 2019 - by paying for 2 teachers, a cook and of course - porridge!
We had some great feedback from the primary schools where our nursery children go to next - and that was that our children outperform the other children by far and get off to a much better start. They are the top performers in every school they go on to. This led to us starting a new project this year, which is to find sponsors for the brightest children we identify. We now have sponsors for 10 children, who attend a fabulous primary school in the south of the country and are making brilliant progress.
I told you in my last report that it is 10 years since I made my first trip to Northern Uganda. I have made this short video about that very first trip, which I thought you might like to see. You can watch it here - Looking back to my first trip 10 years ago. So much has happened since that trip - we have supported more than 3,000 farmers with seeds, empowered women and girls, supported young men and boys and run training workshops for I don't know how many people!
It is thanks to your support that we have kept going and will keep on going for another 10 years at least! Thank you so much and I wish you and your families a very happy new year and a 2019 full of love, peace and joy.
With all best wishes
Alison
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