We Need Your Help
Please look at the “before and after” photos. See the progress of our remarkable children in Uganda.
They are overcoming the traumas of war, AIDS, and poverty to become leaders who will help their country.
Please think about our children as you consider your holiday donations.
2010 was a turning point for L.E.A.D Uganda.
We admitted a twenty new students. Most were girls. “We will admit more girls until we reach gender equality,” says Director Monica Nankoma.
We purchased 15 acres of land, which will be future home for our orphans. We plan to build dorms, an office, and a community center on the land in the next two years.
Our future plans include constructing a high school with an advanced information technology / science focus. There is no school like this in sub Saharan Africa.
Our students continue to excel.
Last June, Joseph became the first poor boy elected Head Boy at Budo Junior, Uganda’s elite primary school. Joseph, whose parents died from HIV/ AIDS when he was 3 says, “I feel like I am a hero. This is a school for (cabinet) ministers children and so on. They come from very rich families, but I am their leader.”
Former rock quarry laborer Katongole was elected to University Student Guild Council. More than half of Uganda’s members of Parliament started on the Guild Council. Katongole is studying pharmacy at Makerere University on a full Government scholarship.
8 of out of our 9 candidates received 1st grades on their national exams, taken at the end of 11th grade.
7th grader Amos, an orphan from a refugee camp in northern Uganda, and 4th grader Victoria, who comes from a slum area in Kampala, both received perfect 4 in 4 grades. Rahim was a finalist in a national math contest and continues at the top of his class.
Student entrepreneur, Allisen, built the most efficient farm in his village using modern agricultural techniques he learned in school. The profits to pay his university fees.
We need you this year more than ever.
We do not have the financial means to do all we need to do for our kids without your renewed support. Your financial partnership is vital to our children. In these are difficult economic times, when many of our supporters are hurting and can not help as much as they would like, your support is even more crucial.
One thing L.E.A.D Uganda can promise you that not every non-profit can is that we are really making a difference in training the next generation of entrepreneurs, scientists, doctors. We achieve this by going the distance with our kids, who we treat as we treat our own children. They respond by doing incredible things.
“You do so much with so little,” is what Leah Karp of the Goldfarb Foundation told me recently.
L.E.A.D Uganda is small, but effective.
Please give us a little so we can do a lot of good in the world. Help us transform the life of a child. Your donation allows one orphan, one child who was abducted and forced to participate in the war, one child who worked in a rock quarry to attend the very best boarding school and realize their potential.
100% of the money you give goes to the children’s education, healing, and care.
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