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Uganda
Children
Provide education to AIDS orphans in rural Uganda
More Information About this ProjectProject Needs and BeneficiariesHundreds of thousands of families in South-Western Uganda that have lost breadwinners to HIV/AIDS are stuck in systemic poverty cycles where children have poor access to healthcare, education, food and shelter. Nyaka fights poverty by empowering these kids, especially girls, through free, quality education, healthcare, and basic needs. One of our girl students, Irene, says, "We were suffering in the villages... I am very happy to be in secondary school and to forget about being an orphan." ActivitiesWe run two free primary schools for 359 vulnerable children that provide meals, clothes, medical care, vocational training, community potable water, and a HIV/AIDS prevention program. We support 48 students through secondary school. Funding InformationTotal Funding Received to Date: £50,667 Additional DocumentationThis project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf). ResourcesWhy this Project is ImportantPotential Long Term ImpactWe will educate 600 vulnerable orphans, especially girls, who cannot afford an education at the primary and secondary level so as to reduce systemic poverty in their families by creating community-focused businesses, jobs, and social institutions. Project Message
"I grew up in rural Uganda where my parents sold goats, cows, & land to educate me. Despite not having parents to make such sacrifices, the students at Nyaka still have a chance for a bright future." Who is Running This ProjectContact
Twesigye Kaguri, Project SponsorOrganisation
Learn more about STSAD, Inc. / Nyaka AIDS Orphans School and the project team. Where this Project is LocatedCountry
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For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda. When this Project was UpdatedLast UpdatedThis project was last updated on March 03, 2010. Date Added to GlobalGivingThis project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 15, 2005. Latest Update from the FieldThe Results are In!By Megan Whaley - Administrative Manager (US), February 15, 2010 12:25 PM
 Dear Friends,
Our students' results are in for their Primary Level Exams (PLE)! Students who scored a Grade A+: 8 Students who scored a Grade B+: 17 Students who scored a Grade B-: 1 and Students who scored a Grade C: 0 Not a single student failed the PLE. Our top scoring students in Grade A+ have been accepted into one of the best schools in the region, St. Jerrard's Secondary School in Rukingiri. Our other students have joined our Pioneering Graduates at Ishaka Adventist College in Ishaka. See a picture of our graduates below. You can also see a slide show of pictures from the graduation on the homepage of our website. Monika Dietrich, a Michigan State University medical student, is at Nyaka right now conducting a nutritional assessment for our students at the Nyaka and Kutamba School. She will evaluate our Nutrition Program (including our school meals, school and community gardens, and the Desire Farm) in conjunction with a study of our communities' food customs in order to make sensitive suggestions on how we can better support our kids and our communities. Follow her blog at the link below. The date is set! We will be opening the Blue Lupin Community Library on April 26th, 2010 and we need books and salaries. In many of our hearts we are tied to our memories of how our imaginations were invigorated by good books in safe public spaces when we were kids. Some of us as children, adolescents and adults escaped the anxiety of life through good books. The intellectual depth and knowledge we gained brought us into adulthood and maturity. Give the gift of a good book and a safe public space by donating towards the Blue Lupin Library. We are in the process of hiring a qualified librarian and purchasing books in Uganda. Our Grandmothers speak up. Two our grandmothers with incredible courage and fortitude chose to tell their stories on camera for you, Grandmother Matrida and Grandmother Alice. We asked them to speak freely and talk about issues which were relevant to them. Follow the link below to watch their videos. Lastly, we would like to fulfill our responsibility to you by linking our schools' latest inspection reports. These two reports follow up on the last quarter of 2009 at the Nyaka and Kutamba Schools. They critique their successes and failures with progressive suggestions on how issues can be mended and the schools can perform at their best. All the best, The Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project Links:
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