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Rainbow is working towards the goal of giving children in Uganda a better education through developing their schools. Our projects are with rural primary schools in Kisoro, south-western Uganda. An area where people live a hand to mouth existence and many families survive off a dollar a day. The parents hope is that their children have a good education and a life out of poverty, Rainbow also has the same hope for the children.
Building Dreams, Building Classrooms
Our first project is to build a classroom at Gitenderi Primary School. The school has 1,105 pupils, and seventeen teachers. The problem is that there are only 12 classrooms. This means that in one class there are on average 92 pupils. That is far too many for one class Ifm sure you would agree. We hope to build a new classroom so that they learn in better conditions.
If funds allow we also wish to provide enough desks so that children are able to sit at a desk and not on the floor.
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OPEN MIC 2 - The Final Chapter
Part One
Open Mic
Date: May 21st (Sat)
Time: 7:30pm – 10pm (Doors open 7:00pm)
Place: 3rd Place, Saga City
Entry: 1500 yen (one drink included)
Part Two
Dance Party hosted by the 3rd Place Team – start 10pm
The Rainbow Team would like to thank, everyone for coming to the last Open Mic event, making personal donations, and contributing in your own special way. We raised over 80,000 yen for the Atiira Primary School in Uganda.
Our original intention was to build a new school roof for a classroom. The community in Uganda asked us to renovate the whole building. How badly did they want this to happen? They asked everyone in the local community to donate something and they raised 50,000 yen towards the building cost. People live on 200 – 500 yen a day in this area and to donate so much is truly humbling.
So our target became 250,000 yen to renovate the whole classroom. We have raised a total of 190,000 yen over the last few months including the amount donated by Uganda.
This is the “Final Chapter” about some wonderful people in Saga and Kyushu who came together to brighten the lives of children and parents in Atiira, central Uganda. Join us on May 21st to see how the story ends.
Open Mic video - Click on the link below - Sign into Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150560864655643&comments
2009.05.30
Dancinf for Dollarz Event raises 21,000 yen!
On April 26th Rainbow had itfs first event. Organised by Lee-ann Haslam, Joweria Nambooze and Theresia Munywoki, an afternoon of traditional African dance in Saga City resulted in many people enjoying the steps of Ghanian and Ugandan dances. We thank all those that attended and we look forward to the next event in Saga!
PEN-PAL Project : Japan - Uganda
Project initiated so that Japanese students could use their English in a practical way to connect to other children in the world. read more...
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