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Closed 29/09/2017
Weʼve raised £3,755 to help send a 40ft Shipping Container from Mountbellew, Galway to Uganda
- Warwick, United Kingdom
- Funded on Friday, 29th September 2017
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The money is being raised to transport goods in a large Shipping Container from Ireland to Adraa Village, near Arua, Northern Uganda.
The main event is a official Cycle around the Cotswolds with three differing lengths for all abilities, 33, 66 & 100miles. We are asking for Participants to try and raise £200 each. This will cover race entry, and transport for your bike from London aswell as the donation.
https://www.ukcyclingevents.co.uk/events/wiggle-tempest-sportive/
Much of Northern Uganda is recovering from the civil war inflicted on the region since 1985. Combined with economic and political isolation this has resulted in high levels of rural poverty. Land is held under customary ownership and farms are fragmented with an emphasis on growing food rather than seeing the farm as a business and a source of a sustainable livelihood.
The Franciscan Brothers have set up a Agricultural Education Centre in 2012 with a belief that sustainable agriculture is the most appropriate development strategy in response to the realities facing rural communities in Northern Uganda.
As a concept, sustainable agriculture is a process, based on four pillars
- economic, environmental, socio/cultural and political institutional.
This concept, properly understood and implemented, will lead to the
achievement of sustainable livelihoods of the farmers concerned and
lay the foundation for sustainable rural development. Sustainable agriculture is at the core of the Franciscan Brothers’ ministries in West Nile.
A recent donation of Farm Machinery and Catering Equipment has
been made to the cause. However the Franciscan Brothers are currently
trying to raise the sufficient funds to transport a container from
Ireland to Uganda. Every single item with be utilised to its full potential
including the Freight Container, which will be transformed into a
classroom.
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120
Mary O'Brien
Sep 18, 2017
Well done Francis from all your cousins in Cork! 🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻🚴🏻
£50.00
Sue Ambrose
Sep 18, 2017
Hope you achieve your goal of £7k for this worthwhile charity - apologies for donating so late in the date - hope the event went well and there were not to many sore legs. Well done. From Cass Allen
£50.00
Anonymous
Sep 11, 2017
£30.00
MATTHEW WESTWOOD
Sep 8, 2017
Well done Ryan, excellent effort.
£30.00
Maria Ryan
Sep 7, 2017
£50.00
Liz & Martin Schweiger
Sep 7, 2017
Good luck, the effort is well worthwhile.
£50.00
Danny Lambert
Sep 7, 2017
Well done Ryan - better late than never
£20.00
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