Our Fabulous Christmas Party

From: Kimbowa Julius
Subject: Greetings

Hi Dad,
We are back from school and thanking you for having enabled us stay in school. I did well in mid exams. I staged a play on the Independence day celebrations at school and wrote an article in the Guardian magazine .
Dad are celebrating X-mass with us?

From: Steve
Yes Kimbowa. I will celebrate Christmas with you in Uganda.

Merry Christmas

Happy New Year

During these hard economic times, our students need your help more than ever.

Things may be bad here, but they are worse in Uganda.
Please give generously. Help our students stay in school.

1,500 people receive this newsletter. If everyone who receives this newsletter but has not donated gave just $10 a month — nearly one hundred children could go to school and become leaders.
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Our leaders on Christmas Day.

Please help.
Even a small donation transforms a child’s life

Don’t forget, you will receive an Obama or 9/11 print with your donation if you give before January 20th.

Donate

LEAD Uganda has two premium contribution levels: Sponsor and Patron.
Sponsors and Patrons receive a photo, letters from
their student, and progress reports from us.

Sponsors pay all costs for one child — $150 a month.

$150 a month — $5 a day pays for
everything a child needs to succeed: school fees, books, clothes, medical care, workshops in math, science, computers, and leadership, emotional support, counseling, and a family.

Sponsors are assigned a student. They receive monthly letters from their student, and progress reports from us. They may also receive photographs, drawings, and other materials.

Patrons donate $50 or $100 a month.

$100 a month – $3 a day - pays school fees (tuition), plus room, and board, books, and uniform at one of the best high schools in Uganda.

$50 a month – $1.50 a day – covers school fees for one scholar at a top school.

Patrons receive letters from students and progress reports from us. They are not assigned one student.

Please give what you can. Every donation helps.

$25 a month covers workshops in leadership, video, science, and writing, transportation home during school breaks, school visits, and staff support for one student.

$10 a month buys school supplies. clothes, shoes for one child.

$5 a month provides medical care and books for one student.

Please help a child achieve his or her dreams.
All contributions make a difference.

LEAD Uganda is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
Donations are tax deductible.

Photography except as noted © 2008, Stephen Shames / Polaris

Please feel free to distribute or forward this newsletter to friends, co-workers, and anyone else you think would like to know about the situation in Uganda and our program.

Huffington Post Article: LEAD Uganda’s Leadership Approach is Needed

The Huffington Post published Stephen Shames’ article on why an educational leadership initiative would help the United States and the world economy, fight terrorism, re-establish American prestige, and help Africa.

Please read it and post a comment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-shames/a-marshall-plan-for-educa_b_152915.html

Article Sound Bite:
A sure-fire way President-elect Obama can immediately restore America’s place and moral authority in the world and spur our economic recovery during his first term in office is to export one of our most powerful assets: education. Specifically, we need a Marshall Plan for Education that will help seed the ideals of democracy, liberty and opportunity that Obama described in his speech.

LEAD Uganda’s solution — educating indigenous leaders — is part of the long term solution for a safer, more prosperous world.

Donate

LEAD Uganda has two premium contribution levels: Sponsor and Patron.
Sponsors and Patrons receive a photo, letters from
their student, and progress reports from us.

Sponsors pay all costs for one child — $150 a month.

$150 a month — $5 a day pays for
everything a child needs to succeed: school fees, books, clothes, medical care, workshops in math, science, computers, and leadership, emotional support, counseling, and a family.

Sponsors are assigned a student. They receive monthly letters from their student, and progress reports from us. They may also receive photographs, drawings, and other materials.

Patrons donate $50 or $100 a month.

$100 a month – $3 a day - pays school fees (tuition), plus room, and board, books, and uniform at one of the best high schools in Uganda.

$50 a month – $1.50 a day – covers school fees for one scholar at a top school.

Patrons receive letters from students and progress reports from us. They are not assigned one student.

Please give what you can. Every donation helps.

$25 a month covers workshops in leadership, video, science, and writing, transportation home during school breaks, school visits, and staff support for one student.

$10 a month buys school supplies. clothes, shoes for one child.

$5 a month provides medical care and books for one student.

Please help a child achieve his or her dreams.
All contributions make a difference.

LEAD Uganda is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
Donations are tax deductible.

Photography except as noted © 2008, Stephen Shames / Polaris

Please feel free to distribute or forward this newsletter to friends, co-workers, and anyone else you think would like to know about the situation in Uganda and our program.

Our students’ 3rd term grades

The Uganda school year ends in December. Some of our students have received their report cards. Once again, LEAD Uganda’s students excelled. Here are their results:

Primary School. Results from 10 students:
A+:  3 (Victoria, Joseph, John)
A:    4 (Patricia, Sarah, Martha, Patel)
B     2 (Proscovia, Passy)

High School. Results from 25 students:
A+:    2 (Sanyu, Madinah)
A:    12 (Ongom James, Nokirach, Kibalama, Kimbowa, Okello Ronald, Kusasira Moses, Musa, Saviour, John Baidu, Orach, Wasswa Stephen)
B:      7 (Jjuko, Brian, Tyson, Ibrahim, Ocen, Fahad, Olweny Richard)

Our 14 students in the very top schools (Kings College Budo, Namugongo, Seeta High, and Nagalama) received 9 A’s and 5 B’s. photo: Victoria,an A+ student

Children quit school as aid dries up
from IRIN News: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

GULU, 25 November 2008 (IRIN) – Poor learning conditions and lack of food in primary schools have forced thousands of children out of class in northern Uganda over the past three months, local officials said.

“The problem has been made worse as displaced primary schools relocate back to their original sites in villages when UN food aid support to primary schools has stopped,” Robinson Obot, Gulu District education officer said.

Some 11,123 children below 15 years of age, he said, had dropped out of primary education in Gulu alone. Most were girls – of whom many had been married off to older men.…

… Local leaders in the region expressed concern over the situation. “In some schools in villages like Mucwini, Agoro, classes are empty with no children attending,” said Aturu Abraham from Kitgum District.

Read the full article

The world’s economic crisis is hurting African children. The world fed these children for 20 years. But no one planned for their future. Children need skills as well as food. The region needs leaders. LEAD Uganda’s solution — educating indigenous leaders — is part of the long term solution. photos: Children in Gulu

Student: Ongom James

James, a 16 year-old double orphan, who lived in an IDP camp in Pader after his father was killed by the rebels and he lost his mother to malaria, believes that life always carries surprise packages. The former abducted child remarks,” I was beaten 60 times by the rebels and my body was bruised all over. I lost all hope, and I could not stop crying”.

“LEAD Uganda helped me forget all that happened to me by sending me to the best school in the country, Kings College Buddo. I am focusing on my future career. My dream is to be an engineer, though its tough but I will work hard and make it,” says James.

James is an A student and a school leader, serving as the school’s Environment Prefect. He says, “I do not believe it when I am addressing the school assembly and when the students call me honorable”.

“I thank God for LEAD Uganda, because not only do they pay my school fees, give me books, school materials, and medical care, but they are also family to me.”

Ronald has LEAD Uganda. Please give generously so children — such as the 11,000 who just dropped out of school in Gulu — have the chance to go to school.

1,500 people receive this newsletter. If everyone who receives this newsletter but has not donated gave just $10 a month — nearly one hundred children could go to school and become leaders. This holiday season, please help. Even a small donation will transform a life Don’t forget, you will receive an Obama or 9/11 print with your donation if you give before January 20th. See prints

Donate

LEAD Uganda has two premium contribution levels: Sponsor and Patron.
Sponsors and Patrons receive a photo, letters from
their student, and progress reports from us.

Sponsors pay all costs for one child — $150 a month.

$150 a month — $5 a day pays for
everything a child needs to succeed: school fees, books, clothes, medical care, workshops in math, science, computers, and leadership, emotional support, counseling, and a family.

Sponsors are assigned a student. They receive monthly letters from their student, and progress reports from us. They may also receive photographs, drawings, and other materials.

Patrons donate $50 or $100 a month.

$100 a month – $3 a day - pays school fees (tuition), plus room, and board, books, and uniform at one of the best high schools in Uganda.

$50 a month – $1.50 a day – covers school fees for one scholar at a top school.

Patrons receive letters from students and progress reports from us. They are not assigned one student.

Please give what you can. Every donation helps.

$25 a month covers workshops in leadership, video, science, and writing, transportation home during school breaks, school visits, and staff support for one student.

$10 a month buys school supplies. clothes, shoes for one child.

$5 a month provides medical care and books for one student.

Please help a child achieve his or her dreams.
All contributions make a difference.

LEAD Uganda is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
Donations are tax deductible.

Photography except as noted © 2008, Stephen Shames / Polaris

Please feel free to distribute or forward this newsletter to friends, co-workers, and anyone else you think would like to know about the situation in Uganda and our program.

Holiday Print Offer: Obama & 9/11

In the eight short years of the 21st Century, the United States of America has witnessed two defining moments:

1. On Wednesday September 12, 2001, a day after the attacks on our nation, firemen and policemen raised the American flag at Ground Zero showing we are a nation united.

2. On Tuesday November 4, 2008, Americans elected Barack Obama as the first multiracial President, showing we are a land of opportunity for all.

Invest in our student’s future by collecting a valuable limited edition art print by award winning photographer Stephen Shames.

All proceeds from the sale of these images benefit our LEAD Uganda scholars . Get a tax deduction in 2008 by ordering now.

DONATE $2,000 Receive a 16×20 limited edition of 25, signed pigment print (worth $2,500)
(When all 25 prints have sold,this 16×20 image will no longer be available .)

DONATE $1,100 Receive both 11×17 signed, pigment prints. (save $100)

DONATE $600 Receive an, 11×17 signed, pigment print

DONATE $100 Receive an 8-1/2 x 11 unsigned, laser print

ORDER FORM

Every time you look at these images on your wall, you will remember these moments and know you are spreading the opportunity we have to vulnerable children in Afirca.

ORDER BY CREDIT CARD

If you order by credit card, please send an email indicating which print you want. Please include your mailing address and phone number: steve@leaduganda.org

I Want to Leave the World a Better Place
by Kamoga Moses

I just graduated from high school. I will get into university in August, 2009. I attended high school at St. Peters’ Senior Secondary School Naalya, one of the top schools in Uganda. My hobbies are baseball, music (I hope to release an album some day) and computers

My favorite subjects are Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Math. I love to read medical publications. I need to do well so that I can achieve my dream of becoming a doctor. I want to leave this world a better place than how I found it by helping to alleviate sickness and disease.

Before I joined LEAD Uganda, it was very difficult to go to school because there was no one to pay my fees. Mother tried but could not make it because my father passed away when I was still very young. We are six, four girls and two boys. I am the fourth born. We live in a small house that is barely enough for us.

I am so thankful to LEAD Uganda for the continued support they are rendering towards my education.

Donate

LEAD Uganda has two premium contribution levels: Sponsor and Patron.
Sponsors and Patrons receive a photo, letters from
their student, and progress reports from us.

Sponsors pay all costs for one child x— $150 a month.

$150 a month — $5 a day pays for
everything a child needs to succeed: school fees, books, clothes, medical care, workshops in math, science, computers, and leadership, emotional support, counseling, and a family.

Sponsors are assigned a student. They receive monthly letters from their student, and progress reports from us. They may also receive photographs, drawings, and other materials.

Patrons donate $50 or $100 a month.

$100 a month – $3 a day - pays school fees (tuition), plus room, and board, books, and uniform at one of the best high schools in Uganda.

$50 a month – $1.50 a day – covers school fees for one scholar at a top school.

Patrons receive letters from students and progress reports from us. They are not assigned one student.

Please give what you can. Every donation helps.

$25 a month covers workshops in leadership, video, science, and writing, transportation home during school breaks, school visits, and staff support for one student.

$10 a month buys school supplies. clothes, shoes for one child.

$5 a month provides medical care and books for one student.

Please help a child achieve his or her dreams.
All contributions make a difference.

LEAD Uganda is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
Donations are tax deductible.

Photography except as noted © 2008, Stephen Shames / Polaris

Please feel free to distribute or forward this newsletter to friends, co-workers, and anyone else you think would like to know about the situation in Uganda and our program.