Bunabumali 3.0
We followed an unconventional approach during touch times and we have all learned a lot, also from the solutions that failed. Based on those experiences we can now start round two of the challenge.
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Greetings! I usually don’t do this type of solicitation but this is an emergency situation and we are trying to help people in Eastern Uganda in some small way as we can. Over 100 people are found dead, many still missing, and 6,000 families are in desperate need of food, clothing, shelter, beddings, and basic household supplies. A member of URF Kampala Chapter, Robbinah, lost 16 extended family relatives. We have identified a small community where she is from which can use blankets, food, and other supplies - her family has taken in over 30 people, others are camping at a nearby school and a sub-county offices. How we are responding: On Tuesday, our students at Hope Academy, teachers, URF staff and women’s group are going on a door to door campaign in the villages where we work in Masaka collecting corn/maize and beans. We want to empower local people to help each other. Everyone grows beans and corn/maize; so in Masaka there is plenty; everyone can give something. The students grew corn and are going to donate half of it (about 250kgs). We need about $500 to coordinate transfer of these supplies to those who need them. URF has received $850 from people of Pilgrim Church in Boston and this will buy blankets for over 170 people. URF is also putting in funds for 1,000kgs of corn flour for posho. With your help we can do more: - $5 = a blanket - $5 = 25kgs of corn/maize flour (feeding a family for half a month) - $10 = 5 mosquito nets - $20 = a mattress - $100 = 500kgs of corn/maize flour (feeding 50 people for half a month) - $200 = 1,000kgs of corn/maize flour (feeding 100 people for half a month) Also $10 buys 3 dozens of cups, $10 buys 5 sets of 8 saucepans, or $10 for 2 bedsheets) You can send a check to Uganda Rural Fund, 300 Fraser Purchase Rd, Latrobe, PA 15650. Or donate online http://www.ugandaruralfund.org Indicate “for emergency relief” Those in Uganda can donate by calling Robbinah 077-2570893 or Harriet 070-1640552 - cash or in-kind. Thank you very much. “Kampala, Uganda (CNN) — At least 106 bodies had been recovered Tuesday after massive landslides wiped out several villages around Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, an army spokesman and local aid officials said. “In Butaleja, more than 6,000 households in four subcounties were affected by the flooding, and the area’s only two primary schools were washed away, Ntabadde said.” (CNN source - http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/03/02/uganda.landslide/
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“This used to be our home. My mother died here, my brother, the children and everybody,” said one villager, Seela Wazemba. “Nothing is now left in my life.” (BBC source article/video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8545005.stm )
