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.

Pleasae make a recurring monthly (or a one-time) donation by  clicking on the “Help Change Lives – Donate Now!” button below:

The effort to have L.E.A.D Uganda receive a donation was led by participant Eric Niles, who is the son of Dr. Charles and Ellen Niles. Eric has been aware of his parents’ involvement with L.E.A.D for a few years, and he wanted to do something on his own.  Eric’s excellent presentation on behalf of LEAD resulted in the leadership program receiving the largest amount to a single agency.

The Teen Tzedakah Fund is a program designed to teach Jewish teens to embrace charity as a lifelong value. The seventeen teenage participants allocated $15,000 to Jewish and Non-Jewish agencies. Each participant gave a presentation to the entire panel regarding their favorite charity.  The entire group then voted for the most deserving agencies, and how much money would be given to each.

Eric also collects used and new books from friends and family members, and sells them online in a bookstore he has created on Amazon.com. He has donated $450 from those proceeds to L.E.A.D Uganda. Eric is an outstanding young man, and we are proud to have him as a supporter.

You can purchase the Shepard Fairey prints at our online store.
www.leaduganda.org/shop

Click here to see more photos being auctioned.

Every time you use Goodsearch we receive one cent. A penny may not seem like much but it adds up.
If 100 people do ten searches a day, that is 1,000 pennies or $10.00 a day, $3,650.00 a year — or two kids in school – just from searching.

(2) Use Goodshop to purchase things online.
We receive up to 30% of the piurchase price. In most cases it is 2 -3 %. But American Express gives us money iwhen you apply for a car.
Netflix for new acounts. AT&T for buying a phone. This works on eBay, LL Bean, Staples, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Nike, and lots of stores.

But you have to access them through Goodshop.

HOW TO DO IT.

(1) GOODSEARCH
Go to http://www.goodsearch.com/

Go to WHO DO YOU GOODSEARCH FOR?
It is circled in the photo below.
ENTER:  LEAD Uganda (Brooklyn, NY)

BOOK MARK THIS PAGE ON YOUR MENU BAR. Use it to search.
If you use Internet Explorer or Firefox, you can replace Google with Goodsearch as your default search engine on your menu bar.

Go to      http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/lead-uganda
Click on the Firefox Plug-in.  Download it.

After if is downloaded and installed, go to Search Engine (what is it called?)
To the left of it pull down the menu to manage Search Engines. (see photo)
Select Goodsearch.

(2) How to use GOODSHOP
Go to http://www.goodsearch.com/
Type in the name of the store (see photo):

If you type in “Eddie Bauer” (for example), you will be taken to this page:

Click on “GOODSHOP THIS STORE”
For us to get the money, you have to access them through Goodshop.
THAT TAKES YOU TO THEIR WEB PAGES AND YOU JUST SHOP MORMALLY.
Money goes to us automatically, at no cost to you.