Mengo and Guluddene
Guluddene is located 20Km from Kampala, is an exceptional place caring for children with learning difficulties. Located in 20km outside Kampala in a rural setting the school has creating an atmosphere of happiness and eduation, There are 28 students, 16 of which are boarders. Founded by British born Patti Squire, the disabled children at Guluddene learn basic living skills, vocational skills, animal husbandry, horticulture, carpentry and sewing in well illustrated classrooms. With excellently maintained vegetable plots for each class in which they grow maize, cassava, spinach, eggplants, pumpkins, groundnuts, avocados and bananas.
Places like Guluddene are few and far between in Uganda but you, as supporters of FOAG, are helping to fund this school. Patti said on our recent monitoring visit that the Mengo and Guluddene sites would not be able to function without FOAG’s support and she sends her grateful thanks on behalf of the staff and children at both centres. We are enabling the children from Mengo and Guluddene with special needs to be useful to their families and not be social outcasts. It is a humbling experience to realise how much we take for granted in the UK and how low expectations are in Uganda. Every penny of your donations makes a contribution to improving the lives of the children, some of whom just would not have a life at all without your help.
FOAG and Guluddene
Project update Summer 2010
Project Coordinator: Val Clark
In 2003 Val’s husband, Mike, was very involved in raising funds for FOAG through Rotary having had presentations from Malcolm Rankin and David Harper, two of FOAG’s founder members. A major Rotary project in getting mains electricity supplied and distributed to the Masindi Centre for the handicapped resulted in Val and Mike joining the FOAG Project Monitoring Team visit to Uganda in 2004 which was the beginning of a close association with the committee and the work in all the FOAG projects.
The motivational pull of FOAG for Val is from the control the charity has over its funding and the clear determination members have in seeing that their effort and the generosity of the associates is not lost on bureaucracy and corruption.
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The new electrical generator
Kumi Hospital, Eastern Uganda - Kumi Hospital is a private not for profit 350 bedded hospital providing medical and surgical treatment for children and adults within a large rural area. FOAG provides financial support to suppliment staff salaries,fund fuel for the generator and purchase of vital medical equipment.
Dr Ambrose Memorial Health Centre - Although predominatly providing maternity care, the centre is also a welcoming haven for anyone unwell in the area addressing other diseases such as malaria, HIV and Thphiod.
Kiwoko Hospital - Funding Nurse training for the last 5 years.
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