By Kulihoshi Musikami Luc Pecos | Project Leader and Founder member of PPDR Uganda
As I have said it in our different report, this project started in 2009 and aims at offering the access to basic needs to refugee children in Kampala who are abandoned to themselves and having no one to look after them. The Ugandan society believes that that it cannot take care of refugees while a large number of Ugandans have no help. Both the Uganda government and the UNHCR accuse each for not doing enough to address the problems of refugee children.
This project is part of a long plan project of a school which will accommodate refugee children in Kampala and other vulnerable children in the hosting communities as we believe at PPDR that the real solution and the best projection of these children in to keep them in the walls of a school.
Through Global Giving we have managed to set up this two class room’s center where numbers of refugees come for different activities from morning up to evening such child care education, English for Adults, Functional Adults Literacy program, Youth Drama Group, French and Kiswahili lessons, HIV/AIDS information sessions, civic education information sessions, the church and many meetings both for refugees and people in the local hosting communities.
We want first all to cover up the rooting of the class because when it rains all activities are stopped and resume the next day because of rain.
We need to reach 4,000$ USA for this fundraising period which ends on 30th April 2012 so that this project can qualify and there after receive more funds after this months through the help of Global Giving. We encourage all our donors to contribute as soon as possible so that we can qualify this project.
The money you have so far contributed can buy only 10 iron sheets and pay for the workers who are to put them on top.
If we manage to get this 4,000 that will be great work and then we shall be in a position of setting two (2) formal classes which will be primary one and two in June this year 2012. If we fail to get this money, we shall only buy the iron sheets and wait for the next fundraising campaign. However if we succeed in this fundraising, the nest fundraising campaign we shall focus on how to set up four formal classes for these refugee children and that will be primary, one, two, tree and four in September this year 2012 and then if all go well by the end of this year during our December fundraising we can be in position of officially opening a complete 7 classes primary school for refugee children in Kampala.
The link here gives a brief idea of some of our activities at PPDR training center.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYblMhW8nG4
We greatly thank all people of good who have contributed to this since December 2010 when we started the fundraising campaigns on Global through internet. Because of you we are now what we are today and it is because of your support that this project is still running. Thank you so much.
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