Saturday, December 5, 2009
CASP Sparks Generous Local Contributions
During the Nov 23rd Ceremony to Inaugurate CASP and the Water Tanks:
• An announcement was made of a new donation of $1,500 from Schools (BAS), Local Small Businesses in East Toronto and the Royal Bank of Canada.
• The RT. Hon Rebecca Kadaga, Speaker of the House of Parliament pledged fruit trees for the school garden to provide food (number to established later). She also pledged 1,000 Pine Trees as an extention to the planned Botanical Garden.
• The chairperson of local council (LC V), political head of the Kamuli District Mr. Steven Mubiru, pledged to provide all the conversions for two new tanks on the second building at Kinu School to collect water for garden irrigation.
• The Hon State Minister for Lands and area member of parliament for Bugabula south constituency– Kamuli District Asuman Kiyingi announced a donation of one million Ugandan Shillings (approximately 600 Canadian Dollars) to support the nearby Hospital to the school.
In addition, Moses reports that the community members, including parents of Kinu students, "strongly promised" to cooperate with the CASP programs whenever there is a need in terms of their manual labour.
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