Row for Uganda

A member of SBC, Bewdley Rotary Club and PfHU volunteer, sponsor and supporter Bob Eaton is going to row 50,000 metres! Between 1st May and 18th June, his 82nd birthday Bob will spend hours rowing in his summer house going nowhere! Please support him

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We are a small group of UK volunteers who have been involved with Uganda since 2007, when Kate Oakley, a retired teacher first visited. She found unimaginable poverty, hunger, disease, poor housing and sanitation and lack of educational opportunities. This motivated her to help. She is now the UK Director of our registered charity Planting for Hope Uganda and visits regularly. We raise money to help develop sustainable projects which improve conditions for the rural poor. Kititi, in South Eastern Uganda, is a small bush village near to Lake Victoria inhabited mainly by women, children and the elderly. It is a desperately poor region lacking most of the facilities that we take for granted. There is very little opportunity for paid work and families go hungry and uneducated. They receive no medical care. The overriding aim of Planting for Hope Uganda is to empower the community of Kititi by giving them hope through a self-supporting and sustainable future. The women have formed a cooperative. They make and sell paper beads and other crafts to provide food and education for their families. We are supporting them in this endeavour by raising awareness and funds for the following initiatives: improved diet and clean water, education and job opportunities, health care, housing and sanitation, sustainable farming projects, electricity, and supporting the elderly. There are very few overheads, so virtually every penny raised goes directly to the community of Kititi.

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I intend to finish the 50,000 metres before my 82nd birthday on the 18th of June. I am doing this to raise money to help the villagers of Kititi during the COVID 19 pandemic. The villagers mostly survive on subsistence farming. This means they have no savings, very low food stocks and are heavily dependant on casual labour, meaning that hardly anyone can survive from working at home. It will be difficult for them to survive this crisis as there are no government measures to help with food supply or medication.

The money raised will pay for food parcels, medicines and soap during the country's lockdown. The World Health Organisation are predicting famine of biblical proportions in East Africa as a result of Coronavirus, naming Uganda as one of the countries affected.

As a member of Rotary I have been involved in this charity since 2013. Bewdley Rotary has raised money for several projects and developments that have gone on in the village. Last year (2019) at the tender age of 80 I decided to go out and see for myself the progress being made. I was amazed and overwhelmed by what I saw and felt compelled to make a second visit this year that left me no less moved and full of determination to continue to support this charity.

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Total
£1,875.00
+ £428.75 Gift Aid
Online
£1,875.00
Offline
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Direct
£1,875.00
Fundraisers
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