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GVN Community Fund
The GVN community fund was set up to support the work of our partners in supporting communities in need. 100% of all money donated goes directly to the project concerned. Our feature project for the next six months is in Uganda. We are raising funds to build a school to provide educational opportunities for children who have lost their parents due to the AIDS virus.
Our partner in Uganda, the African Child Foundation, offers education to AIDS orphans and needy children in Ndejje. A total of 150 children have benefited in this program so far. There are still many children who the foundation has been unable to help, due to a lack of resources; Ndejje is comprised of eight villages and there are more than 30 000 HIV/AIDS orphans and needy children in the community. About a quarter of these children attend school under the Universal Primary Education scheme, which is a government program to pay partial school fees for four children per family. There are two government aided primary schools under this program within the Ndejje area. However, as is often the case in Africa, the government aided schools are overcrowded, especially in the rural areas. The ratio of children to teachers is between 120 to 200 children per teacher. The teachers are poorly paid, often only making a minimum salary of forty US dollars per month, which compels the teachers to skip some lessons in search for ways to supplement their income. As a result the children's standard of education suffers, and children often drop out of school at an early age, raising a generation of unskilled youths with no parental guidance and no education to compete in the job market. The African Child Foundation is committed to addressing this problem by constructing and establishing a primary school in the Ndejje area. The school will focus on the children who have not been attending school, due to a lack of school fees and other social problems. They hope this will help to mitigate the impacts of an illiterate society and provide these children with a future. The school will supplement the government's efforts to educating Uganda's children. The school will be integrated with vocational training such as computer application, carpentry and tailoring. The school will also integrate children from well off families within Ndejje to help subsidise the costs. The plan is for the school to accommodate between 500 and 1 000 children. The total cost of the project is US$80 000.00, and the project will be completed in three phases. Phase One
Phase Two
Phase Three
Total Cost: USD$80,000.00 |