Bricks at Community and Volunteer Center Site, September 08, originally uploaded by amanda.milholland.
By Derrick Luwaga and Amanda
It is true. If we believe and work hard to make things change in our societies it can become a reality. We can achieve what we want! KACCAD is proud to be able to announce some great accomplishments as well as our inspiring work in progress. We are soon to start construction of the foundation for our community and volunteer center. At the same time, our orphaned and vulnerable children school sponsorship program has expanded and we are looking forward to a strengthened partnership with Wings of Support which will help improve education in Ssumbwe Village.
To date, 8,643 bricks have been burnt and 22,000 bricks are waiting to be burnt. We are looking forward to starting construction on the community and volunteer center in mid October. So far funds for the construction of the foundation and part of the plinth wall have been raised. As stated in our last newsletter, one of our primary focuses for the community and volunteer center is to create a home through which we can run our projects in the areas of training in business skills and management, reproductive health, farming and agricultural techniques, voluntary HIV counseling and testing and hygiene and sanitation. The center will also provide a permanent home for the KACCAD office, a resource library for the community and housing for our staff and volunteers. To reach our goal of having a home for these programs as well as for our volunteers and office we are still seeking $30,000 to complete the center. Special thanks go to our partners The Real Uganda, Milholland family and Songliness Choir, Linda Russell and Langbale Elementary School of Canada for their kind support to make the foundation work possible.
We are happy to announce that through your help we now are sponsoring 41 students to attend school. We are still remaining with 78 students, including 42 new students in the age range of 5-8 years old, who are seeking sponsors. The last school term of the year started the first and second week of September. Though our sponsored students are now in school, we are still waiting on donation from a few sponsors to keep their children in school for the term. Aside from this, we are looking for sponsors for the remaining 78 students for the first term of next year. Please help us get sponsors for these vulnerable and orphaned children for January 2009.
With donors’ support, KACCAD has provided a total of 3,200 books for schools in the past including Nicaragua Primary School, Kikaaya Collage, Gold Max Primary School and Secondary School, Genesis Primary School and Bulenga Modern Primary School. Now we are working to do the same with the assistance of Wings of Support, a group of flight attendants and KLM and Martinair staff who give grants for projects serving children in many developing countries. In our partnership with Wings of Support, which is still going into negotiation, we hope to finish one of our affiliated schools, Step By Step Nursery and Primary School. We hope to start a school library and stock it with books and to finish the classrooms and toilets for boys and girls. We extend our gratitude and appreciation to our project coordinator from Wings of Support, Anita Kuiper, for the donation of clothes, toys, books and other school supplies to the orphans and vulnerable children at this school. We are looking forward to continue our work with Wings of Support and Step By Step.
We thank all of those who have given support for our many programs and especially for construction of the community and volunteer center and student sponsorship. We are really excited about our new partnership with Wings of Support. Thank you Anita for your visit.
Sincerely,
Derrick Luwaga
KACCAD Director
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