Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda

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Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda
Help 600 Needy Children Keep in School in Uganda

Summary

This project will provide 600 needy and rural children with school fees, scholastic materials and feeding to enable them complete secondary and tertiary education. Currently, nearly 50% of the children do not complete primary school in Uganda and, it is even worse at Secondary level where costs are extremely high for majority of the population who live in rural and poor households.

$10,000
total goal
$9,969
remaining
5
donors
0
monthly donors
1
fundraiser
1
year

Challenge

In Uganda, nearly 50% of the children do not complete primary school and this is even worse among children from rural and poor communities. They miss attending school, writing notice and dropout due to lack of school fees, scholastic materials and feeding. These greatly affect their future, increased illiteracy and young girls and boys have been forced to enter marriage without means of survival thus keeping them in cycle of poverty.

Solution

The Project will provide school fees, supply scholastic materials and feeding to needy children so that they can keep in school and acquire quality secondary and tertiary education. It will target children joining secondary and throughout the six years of secondary school and also those joining tertiary institutions for skilling and certification

Long-Term Impact

The project will educate 600 children allowing them to acquire life-long skills and knowledge which will enable them break the cycle of poverty that they have for long been in. This will empowerment to have bright future, fight household poverty and promote national development. It will also increase literacy levels and reduce the rampant early child marriages in the rural communities

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Organization Information

Development Alert

Location: Tororo, Eastern - Uganda
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Project Leader:
Zachery Onyango
Tororo , Eastern Uganda

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