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.

volunteers at Ruhanga community project SW Uganda

For reasons that we do not entirely understand children within the Ruhanga community do not start school until they are 7 years old. We felt that this situation was not ideal and therefore embarked on a journey to provide nursery school facilities.

unfinished school building

The first of the buildings was completed in 2008 and the children settled in but it was not enough to meet the needs of the village and as you can see we started off with no chairs or desks for the children.

ruhanga community proejct nursery school children

We have therefore decided to run a raffle this spring to raise money to provide classroom furniture as well finish off the second school buidling. This will enable the children to have more room to do their work

This is where we are so far so we need your help to finish this work off

unfinished school Ruhanga SW Uganda

School latrine

Jordan one of our service users

As well as the nursery school work continued on the craft centre to provide a space from which the women can work.

half finished craft centre

The raffle includes some amazing prizes such as a meal out, a reflexology session, Unusual African gifts, a weekend break etc, to buy your ticket and be in with a chance to win one of these amazing prizes please get in touch http://lethemhelpthemselves.org/contact

Or if you have something that could be included in the prizes please get in touch

If you do not wish to take part in the raffle but would like to support our work please make a donation

Have you heard about Global Giving UK, a charity of charities? This is how the charity describes itself.

GlobalGiving.co.uk enables you to donate to well-vetted charity projects in regions such as Asia, Africa and South America, and to tangibly see the impact of your giving. Projects on GlobalGiving.co.uk are screened to ensure they meet a genuine charitable purpose, in areas such as education, health, economic development and the environment

I submitted our project  in South West Uganda and I can confirm that
the screening is the toughest I have ever been put through. We have made it through to the last round and we need your help to raise £1000 in order to remain in the competition.

Please make a donation at http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/pr/4100/proj4014a.html. Every little helps as the good folk at Tesco keep reminding us, so £1 or £2 or £5 will help us get to out target

Our purpose is to get clean water to folk in Ruhanga SW Uganda and provide education for village children under the age of 7

I hope you can help us