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Sanyu Babies Home

Mikwano's roots are firmly based in Sanyu Babies Home. James in particular, but also Rachel volunteered a lot of time to the home. After the volunteering ceased Mikwano donated funds for the nursery school. Mikwano is currently not funding Sanyu Babies’ Home as the Trustees believe it to be well supported by other organisations. However we continue to visit and take an active interest there.

One of the babies tackling a biscuit

Street Children’s Project - Kids In Need (KIN)

KIN is a Ugandan charity working with street children, both boys and girls, up to the age of nineteen. KIN collects these children from the street and cares for them, providing housing, food, clothes. KIN also provides education, skills training and counselling to rehabilitate the children back into their families and communities.

In 2008 Mikwano sponsored their tailoring and bakery vocational training and income generating projects. In 2009 we continued to support the tailoring project and paid for 14 girls to attend school. Unfortunately due to a failure of the Director of the project to meet with Mikwano’s accountability requirements we have not felt able to sponsor this project into 2010. Mikwano will review this decision in the event of a change of circumstances.

Traditional dress tailored by the girls

Vocational Training

Until 2010 Mikwano sponsored the following two projects. Due to the Trustees’ decision to provide greater assistance to a narrower range of projects Mikwano has not continued its sponsorship to these projects into 2010. However we wish them every success.

Single Parents Association Uganda (SPAU)

Mikwano sponsored equipment for a tailoring and a candlemaking income generating project which teaches mothers these skills in order that they can generate income to care for their children and pay for their school and medical fees. The mothers are extremely grateful for this support and opportunity and conveyed their thanks to the donors by doing a local dance!

Bunyoni Community Secondary School

Bunyoni is a rural community in South West Uganda. Mikwano helped this community by sponsoring materials for a tailoring project in a secondary school. This resulted in the children gaining skills enabling them to generate income – skills that are useful in themselves, but also to support them financially once they have left school.

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Proud parent showing the progress of her income generating chicken project

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The school dining room, demonstrating the desparate need for funds

Home of Joy - Salvation Army

Richard, the child Mikwano currently sponsors at Uganda School for the Deaf was originally cared for by Sanyu Babies Home. When he became too old for Sanyus but was too young to attend boarding school at Uganda School for the Deaf a placement was arranged for him at Home of Joy, the Salvation Army Home in Kampala caring for children with physical disabilities whilst they receive medical treatment. When we visited Richard in 2006 he was covered in mosquito bites and we discovered that malaria was a problem in that part of Kampala. Mikwano therefore paid for mosquito nets for every child and for mosquito screens to be put on the children's dormitories, with curtain to brighten their living environment up.
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Emergency, Medical and Relief of Hardshiph

Mikwano made 3 grants in 2008. None were made in 2009.