Support Sky Is The Limit school in Uganda

Sky Is The Limit Children’s Centre’sThe Chosen Few Tailoring School & Workshop provides employment to graduates of Sky Is The Limit and is part of a long term plan to see the centre become sustainable. The workshop’s profits are ploughed back into Sky Is The Limit Primary School and Noah’s Ark, where around 40 orphans and vulnerable children, many living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, have found a new home. Thanks to the money the workshop generates, Sky Is The Limit has been able to buy essentials for its school meals programme as well as other daily necessities for the children it supports.

Sarah is one such child. 13 years old, and the eldest of five children, she and her family sought refuge at Sky Is The Limit after being forced to flee from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo to escape intercommunal violence.

When they arrived at Sky Is The Limit, its founder and Director, Rose Mugenyi, employed Sarah’s father as a night watchman, to enable him to support his family. The children were enrolled at Sky Is The Limit’s school and Sarah’s father worked hard to ensure that all the children could attend, while her mother took care of the house and her youngest sister, who is just 3 years old.

Sadly, last autumn, as Sarah was preparing to sit her Primary Leaving Examinations, her father passed away unexpectedly. With no job, Sarah’s mother was left grieving and desperately wondering how to provide for her children. Urgently needing to find help for the family, Rose wrote to Ecologia:

The big problem the mother is faced with is where to live and take care of her children. She cannot go back to Congo because of the war and she has no money to buy a piece of land to dig and plant food for the family or to provide for their basic needs. The family is facing a very stressful situation and of all of us, as human beings, are sharing it, as we have failed to help them.

Sarah and her siblings became dependent on the single daily meal that Sky's school provides, thanks to funding secured by Ecologia Youth Trust and profits made by the tailoring workshop. But it seemed that Sarah would soon  have to drop out of school, for although primary schooling is free to all in Uganda, her mother cannot afford the fees required to send her to secondary school.

Luckily, after putting out a call for help through our child sponsorship programme, an Ecologia supporter stepped forward to cover Sarah’s school fees of £450 a year. Now she will be able to complete her schooling and gain the education she needs to have the future she dreams of! Meanwhile, the family have been given shelter on the school compound and Sarah’s siblings are continuing to attend school, where they receive a nutritious, hot, daily meal.

Sarah was delighted to receive the good news but the family's situation is still precarious. That's why, with your help, we want to do more to make sure Sarah's brothers and sisters get their basic needs met, and eventually find sponsors of their own. Can you help?

Thanks to your generosity, the tailoring workshop has already been able to buy new sewing machines, and with additional funds it could buy enough stock to enable it to fulfil bulk orders. This in turn will enable it to generate more profits for Sky Is The Limit and the children it supports. 

In Uganda, every penny goes a long way. Please consider donating whatever you can afford to help Sky Is The Limit become more sustainable and give more children like Sarah a fresh start and hope for a bright future.

Links:

• A visit to Sky Is The Limit - an Ecologia supporter reports
• More about Sky Is The Limit
• How does Sky Is The Limit help?