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An update from our Project Coordinator
I have been in Uganda for a month now – we have around 250 children aged 3-10 attending our Ruhanga Development Nursery & Primary School. Nursery School is registered and Primary almost completed all the required sections for registration Most children have a uniform – thanks to kind donations of unwanted items from UK schools [...]
Gender equality- the girls want a toilet of their own
We have just come back from Ruhanga SW Uganda and what a trip. We had a Xmas party at the Ruhanga Development School and then there was the Walk 4 Water and official Turning on of the taps. The community came out and got involved, I really can’t begin to put in words what this all [...]
Water for Ruhanga in pictures
Folk in these photos have supported our campaign to bring water to the people of Ruhanga SW Uganda through various means. the lack of access to clean water impacts economic development in the village as folk spend several horus a day in search of clean water. In addition it impacts the health of folk in [...]
Santa goes to Ruhanga
I don’t know about you fol but it does seem to me that Xmas appears to come earlier and earlier each year. A few days ago I saw a woman with gift wrapping paper and my heart sunk! Is it that time of the year again I asked? I could help but wonder too how [...]
A new school play ground?
We are making real progress at Ruhanga Community development school this what the school looked like a few months ago! As you can see in these photos the roof has gone on, and work on the play ground has started. We need to provide 1 more classroom to accommodate 25 [...]
Touch base with us this Saturday 8 October 2011
We are pleased to announce our first ever Annual General meeting which is to be held on Saturday 8 October 2011 at the Walton on Thames Travel Lodge Ashley Park Road Walton on Thames Surrey KT12 1JP at 4:00PM. There is no need to book just turn up. The nearest train station is Walton on Thames [...]
Clean Water arrives in the Village
Like most folk that grew up in rural Uganda/Africa we didn’t have running water, you can read about by personal story here . My friends and I have therefore dedicated the last 2 years to bringing clean water Ruhanga a village in SW Uganda and work finally got under way in January of this year. [...]
Ugandan Business man sponsors 5 girls at our school
We were fortunate to attend the 1st Uganda Convention in the UK that brought together Ugandans from all over the world. The best part about this day was that our charity was amongst those selected by the Chairman of the organising committee to receive a donation on the day That donation has gone towards the [...]
Clean Water for Ruhanga
Event Registration Online for Walk for Water powered by Eventbrite Ruhanga is a beautiful village in SW Uganda East Africa but faces a daily challenge- ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER We need to construct a water gravity system, which will enable them to construct a pipeline from the hills to the village where there is clean, [...]
Happy New Year 2010
A very Happy New year to you all our supporters The year 2009 was a very busy one for us at our project in SW Uganda we saw an increase in overseas volunteers and this enabled us to forge ahead with the provision of a nursery school in the village. For reasons that we do [...]
