What we do
Our charity is non-political and non-religious and our members come from very different backgrounds. We don’t want to and we can’t change life in Uganda , but we hope, with our small and punctual contributions, to be able to improve their lives, especially in Lira city, in the North of the country. Our goal is to make a bit easier and happier the life of some Ugandan families. We elaborate simple and brief projects during a year. Our social worker, finds a family and let us know its need, he makes a budget of the project. From here, in Spain or England, we get in touch with our members, we will inform them about it, and they will decide if they want to take part in the project and how much they want to donate towards it. This is always free of any pressure on them. We are fully aware of the difficult economic situation that Spain and other countries in the EU are living right now and we don ́t want to put any pressure on our members with a monthly or permanent payment. We rather prefer each individual to decide when and how much can they help with. We will inform every month of the projects going on and they will decide how and when they want to collaborate. Once we get the money needed to go ahead we will send the money to Uganda, and Moses , our head of projects in Uganda over there will distribute it. As proof of this, all our members will get photos, videos, personal letters, thank you cards, from the people receiving our help. ( families, shops, schools, etc). One of our main goals is to get total clarity in this process and we want to make sure the helper and the person receiving the help can communicate fluently. We want you to see closely the results and benefits of your help, and we want you to be who decide how, when and why. Types of projects achieved from 2010 to 2013. You can see videos and pictures on the videos/pictures gallery :
1. Helping family life: to build huts, to buy seeds to create crops, objects very much needed in a house, bicycles, helping new self- employed little business, medical attention, to buy animals (cows, hens, goats , etc) others ...
2.Helping education, school for children: to pay school material, uniforms, bicycles to transport kids to school, school fees, colleges fees. Helping the disabled: to buy wheel chairs, special equipped bicycles for disabled people, to help them to create a business.
3.Sewing machines, tool boxes: we work closely with few colleges in Lira town, North of Uganda. To own a sewing machine makes a huge difference for a girl studying to become a dress maker, the same a tool box will do for a boy preparing himself to be a carpenter, that is why at the end of each school year we buy and give 2 or 3 of these machines and we hand them to the students in most difficult economic situation. This is our special present for the hard work they have put into it.
4. To buy bicycles/ help from the charity wheels4life (www.wheels4life.org). Our charity wouldn ́t be the same without the help of an American charity called Wheels4life. They buy and donate bicycles all over the world. They have generously helped us in few occasions . Our charity choose the families (quite often women with AIDS) who really need them. We carry on a follow up on these families to make sure they are using their bikes in the right way. Bikes4life Project distributed 135 bicycles( 42 in year 2011 & 93 in 2012/2013) to poor women, children and elderly people to provide access to transportation to health centres, schools, water source, market, gardening. The grant was donated by wheels4life, USA. Thanks to our supporters/ donors. Something as simple as a push bike , that in Europe we use as part of our relaxing- holiday time, in Uganda can change the life of a family. With a push bike, they can move around, go to get water without damaging their backs, take children to school, poorly women can go to hospitals to get their medication, they can transport goods to be sold on the market...in Uganda a push bike means “life” and makes a huge difference to the person who owns one.
