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Ways to Help
The best way to help is to donate money so our students can stay in school.

Our scholars need school fees, books, and school supplies. This requires money. We spend approximately $1,800 a year — $150 a month— per student. This amount covers everything: school fees at a top boarding school, books and school supplies, clothing, shoes, food, transportation, a place to stay during school breaks (our children are orphans), academic and leadership workshops, and staff support.

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Sponsor a Child's Education
Your donations keep LEAD Uganda's scholars in school.  We encourage you to sponsor a student's education. Keeping the children in top schools is the most important thing — the cornerstone of our program.

Please sponor a child by contributing $150 a month. That is only $5 a day.

We will pair you with a boy or girl in the LEAD Uganda program. Sponsors will receive monthly letters from the child they sponsor. You will recive updates at the end of each term from us on their school progress.

If you can not sponsor a child, pelase give what youcan. We have hundreds of individual donors who give us $5, $10, or $25 a month. (See contributors names.)

You can transform a child's life for the cost of a burger or a capuccino.

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The Stephen Shames Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
Donations are tax deductible.

Other Ways to Help
There are many ways you can help. Some of them are outlined below:

Church and School Partnerships
We have partnerships with a number of churches. Elementary, middle and high schools, students have raised money for our students.

Ask your school or university; your church, synagog, or mosque; or your colleagues at work to sponsor a child. You will receive a photograph and biography of the student you sponsor, as well as, letters from them and frequent updates on their progress.

We willl provide educational materials about children in Africa and set up a pen-pal exchange for schools who sponsor students. This is a good way to educate students about the issues, reinforce the value of education, while empowering them and helping them realize they can contribute to the world.

Students at the Haverford School near Philadelphia sponsor Ocen Dennis

Corporate Matching Programs
Many corporations have matched giving programs. Please contact your employer's Human Resources office and ask if we meet the criteria. If we do, every donation, you and your co-workers make is matched.

Donate equipment and supplies
We need lap top computers (Mac and PC), digital video and still cameras, and art supplies for our workshops.

We need a satellite dish to connect to the internet.

Our boys and girls (aged 8 to 20) need tee shirts, clothing, and shoes. Our students need books — novels — to read. Our children love to watch DVDs (movies).

Moses and Wasswa during Errol Daniels' photography workshop.
PHOTO: ©2006, Errol Daniels

Blog
Join or start a blog about Uganda's children and LEAD Uganda. Students in Philadelphia started a blog on Facebook to help us: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13878562893

Tell people about us. Urge them to donate.

Conduct a Worskshop in Uganda
If you are a teacher or a professional videographer or photographer, or web designer, you could conduct a one or two week academic or art workshop for our students during their school breaks. We have held workshops in English, writing, science, math, video production, photography, and web design.

Intern at our New York office
We need an intern to help us expand our fund-raising activities and liason with donors. In addition to distributing monthly letters from the students to the donors and producing a newsletter, we are reaching out to middle schools, high schools, and colleges. We will be approaching churches and service organizations, corporations, and foundations.

Computer Center
LEAD Uganda plans to create a state-of-the-art computer learning center at a high school. The center will   train and prepare individuals from all over East Africa, including LEAD Uganda's scholars, in technology skills, which are essential for today's competitive global job market.

The computer center will not only imbue our scholars with marketable 21 st century skills, but will produce income for Concern for the Future, the NGO (non-profit) that runs LEAD Uganda.

Please help us make this dream a reality. Are you in the computer industry? Do you want to help Africa join the digital age? Contact us.

download computer center PDF

Want to Help?
Email us: steve@leaduganda.org, or call us in New York at 718.622.2650, if you are interested in helping Uganda's neediest children receive a first rate education so they can lead their nation to a better future.

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