The Agwata Community is busily making bricks during the dry season (January and February) so they will have the required amount needed to build 2 more classroom blocks for their Parent Primary School. Outreach Uganda is partnering with the community on their school. We built two classroom blocks in 2012, and have almost raised the
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Paper Beads: a Fair Trade Opportunity
Outreach Uganda purchases the paper bead jewelry and other craft products from our Ugandan women’s groups at or above fair trade prices. We do this so that our beaders will be able to move from income insecurity and poverty to a sustainable lifestyle with economic security and a sense of fulfillment and well-being. Through continued
Letter Writing Tips for Sponsors
Sponsored children love receiving letters from you, their sponsors. You might want to include a small paper item with your letter as a special surprise. Some ideas to consider: Photos of you, your family, pets World and country maps Postcards – all kinds Greeting cards Coloring pages* Mazes or dot to dot pages* Bandaids – fun
Child Sponsorship – Frequently Asked Questions
Is My Sponsorship Payment Tax Deductible? Outreach Uganda is a U.S. 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your contributions are tax deductible in the U.S. to the fullest extent of the U.S. tax law. How Often Do I Pay? Your child’s sponsorship amount will be due either annually, by term or by month depending on the payment
Donate Now – Help Build Nursery Classrooms
Help Outreach Uganda (OU, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit) build more classrooms at the Agwata School in northern Uganda. Two more classrooms are needed so that 120 nursery (pre-school) students can have a modern cement block building instead of the current mud and thatch building which is in danger of collapsing. So far, we have raised
Peace Begins with You
“Building Character” is the focus of Outreah Uganda’s 2012 training efforts with all three of our Ugandan women’s groups (over 200 members), with our 160+ sponsored children and with our 300 students at the Agwata primary school in northern Uganda. The theme book for these Character Building Training efforts is entitled, “Peace Begins with You” by Katherine Scholes. The
Meet Oyella Delis, Achieving Despite all Odds
Meet Oyella Delis, who lives in Agwata and is one of our current P-7 students who is attending the closest government primary school which is over 4 km away. Oyella has achieved in spite of all odds, and we’re proud of her for this. Oyella exemplifies the type of student our Girls’ Education Initiative seeks to
2012 Update on our Girls’ Education Initiative
In the summer of 2010, Outreach Uganda began a special initiative to help girls in our northernmost Agwata location to stay in school beyond the primary level. We noticed in our work at the Agwata school and in our sponsorship program, that in these very rural areas, girls began to drop out of school earlier
Kitgum Beaders Begin Farming Project
Aloyo Margaret and other members of the Kitgum beaders’ group proudly show Outreach Uganda president, Carol Davis, their new 4 acre garden where they are growing cash crops as a group income-generation project. The group planted 2 acres of sim sim interspersed with some sunflowers plus 2 acres of ground nuts (similar to peanuts) about 6 kilometers
Agwata School Adds Nursery Section
Summer 2012 marked the opening of a Nursery School at the Agwata Community School which Outreach Uganda helps support in northern Uganda. Over 50 eager students joined the Nursery section. In fact, during September many Nursery students had to be turned away for lack of space. We hope to remedy the space problem by constructing