Articles From Ugandan Newspapers

A few articles about the ceremony on November 23rd have been published in various Ugandan newspapers. Thanks to Moses for sending us these scans!

Local Royal Banks: clean water & water education

The managers of our two local branches of the Royal Bank (Queen St E. & Lee Ave as well as Lawlor Ave. & Kingston Rd) are excited to join our network of community supporters.  Bringing clean water to those who need it as well as water education for children in Canada are activities they wish to assist with.  They donated $500 to match the donation made to the project made by students at Beaches Alternative School!

Adam Beck Donates School Supplies!

Thanks to Adam Beck for collecting school supplies for Kinu Primary School.

Giving the Gift of Water

Consider giving the gift of food and water this holiday season.

The Uganda Water and Garden Project would like to remind you that making a donation as a gift this season can make a difference in the lives of so many children and their communities.

The vision of the Uganda Water and Garden Project is to develop Kinu Primary School as an education centre and site for demonstrating sustainable methods to address water and food issues that can be replicated at schools across Uganda.

Making a donation this holiday season will help to make this happen.

Inserts for your own greeting cards or e-cards are available in any denomination. Gifts of $25 or more are eligible for a charitable tax receipt. For an additional $1 (to cover printing costs) greeting cards with space for your own personal messages are also available. For those living outside of the Greater Toronto Area, please allow 7 days for your gift cards or inserts to arrive.

Please contact us for further information or to order your gifts.

CASPCAN1@yahoo.ca

647.995.7312 (Vanessa)

Thank you for considering a donation to the Uganda Water and Garden Project this holiday season.

Donation in Response to Glen Ames' Efforts!

Glen Ames and others will be working on raising funds for the conversion of a second building to harvest water to be used for irrigating the school garden.

The news has been received in Uganda with excitement!

Parents of Kinu students will donate their labour to attach the troughs to the building.

The Chairperson of LCV Kamuli District has agreed to donate the conversion materials (eaves troughs) for the second building.

Water as a Human Right

See Water Rights Declaration:

http://www.canadians.org/water/documents/blue-summit-declaration-09.pdf

Water is essential to life. It is part of the global commons, and belongs to the earth and all its species. It is sacred and needs to be treated with respect....

We resolve today to engage all Canadians in working to protect water for the planet and future generations. Public water is a human right!

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.

Video of Kinu - Now Available!

We now have the "Life at Kinu Primary School" video prepared with subtitles.

It is a rough video shot with a digital camera we sent over last year.  It shows you the school, the contaminated water hole, the children carrying heavy loads of water and the initial plans for the school garden.  It also shows some of the children preparing their pen pal letters.

Please contact us if you are interested in obtaining copies for yourself, your school, or your family.

We will offer it at a "donate what you can" rate.  All funds go to the project.  Any donation of $25 or more will receive a tax donation.  For a $25 donation (a cheque written to the TDSB -memo line: Uganda Project"), we will send you 3 CDs as a thank you.

Welcome Glen Ames

WELCOME GLEN AMES

Junior School, Grade 7 & 8

Mr. Moses Lyagoba, CASP Director in Uganda has asked me to thank you for joining our "family of schools" involved in the Ugandan Water & Garden Project.

Everyone is very excited to hear that you might be able to help build a water tank to provide irrigation for the school garden.  This water will be critically important to the success of the garden.  It will ultimately help feed the 700 students at Kinu Primary School (age 6-16 yrs).

I can't wait to see the look on the kids' faces when they see the soccer balls you are sending over!!!  (I'll post photos of course)

It was great to come out to speak to such an energetic group.  You are obviously committed to the Me to We process!  And we are really excited about working with you!