Housing & Education for AIDS orphaned girls

Educate African Orphans

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Housing & Education for AIDS orphaned girls

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Summary

To provide a boarding home setting to educate orphaned children, providing them with the basic skills to become self-sufficient and escape child labor, prostitution, and death by poverty and AIDS.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $5,466 was raised for this project.

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Received $5,466 from 62 donations from people like:

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

One out of every 6 Ugandan children is an orphan. The Great Aubrey School in Tororo has a population of 384 children and counting. Another 400 children fostered in the community attend school. AIDS has robbed them of parents. Poverty and lack of education can rob them of a future and even of life itself. Efforts by the community energized by a local Catholic priest have given them hope: The generosity of others can help them realize that hope by providing safe housing for vulnerable young girls.

Activities

The goal of the project is to build a girls dormitory. Currently, the girls are vulnerable due to the location of the school near an industrial site.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,466

Funding Policy: subsidized/guaranteed

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $5,466 as of Feb 26, 2004. The original project funding goal was $15,473.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The new facility will enable the well-trained staff to continue as moral and ethical role models to teach by example while providing safety, education, food and medical supplies.

Project Message

The heart of this project lies in the love and commitment of the local people who take care of their own communities' most disadvantaged group: Orphans of largely AIDS-destroyed families.
- Father Centurio Olaboro, Director