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UK registered charity no 1122823
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Provide education for 80 Pygmy children in Uganda
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Summary
Provide teachers, equipment and food at lunchtime for Two Batwa commumity schools in South West Uganda
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Received £1,640 from 64 donations from people around the world like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The Batwa are a Pygmy Tribe that used to live in the forests along Uganda's western border. They are no longer allowed in the forests and are seriously marginalized, lacking in skills and education to make their way in mainstream society.Children need incentives to attend school.
Activities
Under the supervision of an extension worker AICM will provide lunch every day for all school children at two Batwa villages. It will fund two teachers and will fund training for at least one more teacher.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: £1,640
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £4,808
Total Funding Goal: £6,448
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The Batwa Pygmies are integrating very slowly. Only when their children benefit from education will they be fully accepted.
Project Message
The Batwa people need your attention and support to attain their due dignity and regain their self-esteem as human beings
- Bishop Enoch W.M. Kayeeye., Missionary Bishop to North Kivu. D.R.C.
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Colin Townsend,
Board Member
105, NEWELAND MILL WITNEY OXFORDSHIRE, UK OX28 3SZ
United Kingdom
01993 703463
Email:
Project Sponsor
Colin Townsend
Organisation
FRIENDS OF AICM
MILL COTTAGE, MILL LANE, SISSINGHURST CRANBROOK, Kent TN17 1PS United Kingdom
01993 703463 |
Learn more about FRIENDS OF AICM and the project team.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 16, 2009.
Latest Update from the Field
Much excitement over new furniture at Rwamahano and Muribindi
By Colin Townsend - Project leader, May 13, 2010 05:14 PM
  Children at the two schools in the Batwa communities of Rwamahano and Muribindi can now enjoy lessons sitting at new wooden desks thanks to generous gifts from donors . Recent news from Timothy , AICM director, and George, the financial manager, currently visiting UK, told of the delivery of 30 desks to the two schools. Also of school equipment such as exercise books, pens, pencils and chalk--hardly luxuries for us , but welcomed as great gifts by children and staff at the schools. As a result of this, and the regular posho breakfasts now provided and stable staffing, recruitment and maintaining pupil attendance is improving.Gifts totalling just over £10,000 into the Friends of AICM Batwa fund in the year 2009 to 2010, which includes gifts received through Global Giving, are ensuring that for the present AICM can offer these children the primary education they deserve.In order to preserve this for years to come we need folk to continue their generous giving to this very needy cause. For the present please continue to use our Global Giving Pgygmy project. We are shortly going to replace the Pygmy project on the site with another equally needy project which we hope that Global Giving donors will feel they can give to, but giving to the Batwa fund which we hope will continue to fund these childrens` education will still be possible through the Friends of AICM website which we would urge you to look at:- www.aicm.org.uk .You can also read our latest newsletter through the website which contains a moving account of how three friends from AICM UK spent a night with the Batwa community at Rwamahano back in October, the first white people to do so.Thank you for your interest and support which we pray will continue. Pictures:
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