We're raising £3,000 to feed 900 hungry children a meal a day for 3 months at 3 schools in the Kigezi region of south western Uganda, supporting the charity CHILDREN OF KIGEZI. Every penny of the funds raised by UK volunteers goes directly to feed the children and support their education.

Just £10 will feed 250 children for one day!

These are their stories.....

1. The Batwa people became conservation refugees in 1995 when they were evicted from their forest homes and made homeless, for the Government to set up the National Parks. Funds raised in 2019 by Gurt Lush Choir concerts and other donations enabled the Virunga Masif Community school to be built for the Rukeri Batwa community, Kisoro. It opened in February 2020 and reopened in 2022 after COVID. A clinic was set up in 2021 funded by supporters from Batala Bristol. Funds pay all staff salaries, clinic medical stock, breakfast porridge and lunch for Batwa and local non- Batwa children. Just £13 funds a nurse of teacher for a week.

2. The students of Mwisi School, Kabale, many of them orphans, were unable to benefit from the teaching provided as they were so hungry. Attendance and morale was low. Funds provide a daily mug of porridge for 600 children. For many this is their only guaranteed daily meal. Grace (teacher at Mwisi school) says: “Rampant absenteeism and dozing in the classroom are now a thing of the past thanks to the power of the porridge”

3. Lake Bunyonyi Education and Development Centre School. The school is on a small island for 120 orphans, disabled & street kids. Funds provide a daily mug of porridge for the children.

In total nearly 1000 children are fed at least one meal of porridge a day, and for many this is their only regular source of food.

Just £40 feeds all the children for a day.

Please give generously and support this lifesaving work.