St. Bonaventure School In Uganda
There are 700 students at St. Bonaventure School in Uganda. Half are orphans. Each child has to walk miles a day for water and haul it back to school. Then they need to boil it in the shack pictured in the gallery below. Older kids carry about 5 gallons at a time. Because the girls are not “sanitary” 1 week out of the month and washing conditions do not exist, they are unable to attend school. When they travel so far for water, they risk being raped.
Drink Local – Drink Tap has teamed up with Team Hope and Blue Planet Network to organize and fund the “Making Waves from Cleveland to Uganda” project to create access to safe drinking water on site at the St. Bonaventure School (formerly St. Charles School). Through this program, Carl and Louis Stokes Central Academy, a K-8 public school in Cleveland, has made St. Bonaventure its “sister school.” The students will be participating in programs emphasizing the value of water as a globally shared resource and showing solidarity with their new pen pals in Uganda. They will be carrying two liter bottles of water to a celebration in downtown Cleveland on March 22, World Water Day, and participating in events organized by Drink Local – Drink Tap.
Team H2Ope has identified St. Bonaventure as one of its specific projects for funding. It is determined to make people aware of the plight of the students, which unfortunately, is typical of thousands of rural communities throughout the world.
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Without good clean then life will cgnahe. We take clean water for granted and dont ever think about what would it be like if we did not have it. Look at most of these countries that dont have clean water its a shame.
Dear sir/madam
I am a Congolese living in Uganda for 6 years now and want to benefit from the scholarship. I studied social sciences and social administration in my home country. But in Uganda i did some short courses like the International human right law and work with an organization called the Refugee Law Project. I want to fulfill all the requirements to qualify for the scholarship. Thanks. Kambere Habasikiyake
“Perhaps racism is the reaosn Red” – for many one dead child/wymin/adult whatever in the Middle East is an icon: African victims are not, all these countries consdiered not very interesting. And that is racism, because, unless blind, one can read about the facts in the news. As for our interventions, haven’t we completely and utterly ffffed up those societies for a very long time? Do we need a little hijacking on our own territories to open our eyes? And jams, btw: when Osama wanted to protect darfur from its own victims, consideirng a holy war over there, how come that nobody did protest for those people? because the number is about a million or how many now? Don’t tell me is not racism at the bottom. I did not comment so much about interventions: but the public opinion. And that – not for the first time – fails again and again. After all we are talking about tragedies created by us: all thsoe countries were colonies, or most of them. ignorance is a shame, not an excuse.
I couldn’t agree more, Sri.
I am so excited to hear that you are in Uganda. I traveled to Uganda two years in a row working with another organization. They have moved on to Tanzania, but my heart is still in Uganda. We worked out of Kampala and were in the villages of Namyoya, Kamwange, Fort Portal and a couple others I don’t recall the names of. I sponsored a family in Namyoya and miss them greatly. So, I am looking forward to following your mission in Uganda. God bless you!
WOW!! What an inspiring meassge from Josephine. WALC’s role in supporting her financially and bringing her to the ILCA conference and Dr Sears’ workshop are something we can be proud of. I am grateful to Becky Krumweide’s dedication to this Partner project as part of being WALC President . We can see from Josephine’s report that the present and long-term effects are profound.I look forward to hearing what our on-going partnership with Josephine will birth in the future.May we continue to support our own WALC members in education and partnership and financial support as they go about their daily work in the promotion of breastfeeding for mothers and babies.It is a good work that we do.Thank you, WALC Board.Thank you, Becky.Pat Gima