There are many ways you can help. Some of them are outlined below:
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.
Conduct a Workshop in Uganda
If you are a teacher or a professional videographer, 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.
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.
Our goal is to provide our university-bound students with marketable communication, computer and leadership skills.
A number of corporate and individual donors have helped make our workshops possible by contributing computers, dv video cameras, and digital still cameras.
Perhaps you or your company have an old computer, DV video camera, or digital still camera that you no longer use. Please consider donating it to us. Writing and art workshop in Pader IDP (refugee) camp conducted by our students. If you have something to donate, call or email Steve Shames.
Phone: 718.622.2650. Email steve@stephenshames.org
We greatly appreciate the donations we have received from the following donors:
• Tekserve donated a new i-Book G4 and an iBook computer
• Apple gave us a new i-Mac computer with a 20 inch screen
• Thomas Robinson donated a Canon 10D professional camera
• Ben Schumaker of The Memory Project donated art supplies
• Dan Cohen & Sons contributed a Toshiba laptop computer
• Photo Habitat donated a Nikon Cool Scan digital camera
• Philip Reeser gave a Nikon Cool Scan digital camera
• K&M – Tribeca donated a digital camera
• Foto Care donated a Kyotera digital camera
• Hayes Greenfield donated a G4 computer
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, synagogue, 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 will 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
