A Very Special Request
June 18, 2010 at 7:19 am
The Laroo Vocational School in Uganda works with ex-child soldiers, training them with practical and marketable skills to help them re-integrate with society. Many in Uganda look down on or are afraid of these poor kids because of the atrocities they’ve been forced to commit and without a way to support themselves in the city they are often left ostracized by their villages and communities. The Laroo school plays an essential role in helping these kids heal from their past.
The school has sent an urgent request for funding the education of these children. Like everyone these days they’re finding it hard to survive. Read on to see the numbers, and you’ll get a little perspective on how things really are:
- For their sewing school, they need €370 to purchase thread, mirrors, stools, yamato rolls, tape measures and scissors for the semester.
- For their carpentry school they need €365 to purchase chess cram, triangular files, saw frames, saw blades, arc saws, and smoothing planes
- For their construction school they need €120 to purchase t-squares, overalls, wooden floats, and straight edges.
That’s €855 all up to keep the entire operation going. When you think of all the little lives that will be influenced by that, it’s nothing really…
This is a great chance to partner with a school that is working hard to not simply see these kids survive but to see them thrive. If you contribute through Zest4Kidz you can be sure all your money is going straight to the Laroo school and not into administration. Donate now
Thanks.
Tags: laroo school uganda, Zest4Kidz
Good News From Uganda
June 2, 2009 at 9:41 am
Before the last bank holiday weekend, I shared an email that I’d got in about helping the children of sex slaves who had been brutally raped and tortured during their time in the LRA in Northern Uganda.
Now, post another bank holiday weekend I’d like to share with you the great news that Zest4Kidz, the charity who had made this call for help, have secured sponsorship for all of these kids and all 20 of them will be starting school immediately.
Their Mums (only kids themselves- some as young as 13) are over the moon. This means they can start working to try and build a better future for themselves and their kids.
So it’s a good news update from Uganda and Zest4Kidz. Sunshine in Ireland. And the markets are on the up?
Tags: Lords Resistance Army, Zest4Kidz
One Of Those Things That Can’t Be Ignored
May 1, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Sometimes an email lands in my inbox that makes me sit up.
Somehow the message breaks through the fug of noise in my head.
I read.
Scepticism enters.
What’s the cost? How much are they looking for?
And then the beauty of this one makes me smile and reach for my credit card – it’s only €40.
While in Northern Uganda recently, we came across some young kids between 3 and 5 who were the offspring of girls who had been abducted from their families and subjected to lives of rape and torture in the bush under the rebel leader Joseph Kony and the LRA.
These girls are made pregnant by the “commanders” (themselves kids) and if rescued find it hard to ever go home because of the shame.
The babies are usually the last to ever get any assistance or help.
But ZEST4KIDZ hopes to change that.
We plan to get these wonderful forgotten young kids into primary education and sponsor them for the next first steps of their lives. We will assist their young mums too – but we need your help to look after the babies.
WHAT DO THEY NEED? €40 – this will cover them for the next 12 months
Can you help us help them?
Donate €40 this bank holiday weekend and feel good about yourself. For these kids have had to deal with a very different R word. Now we have a chance to give them a chance.
