In August 2010 I am going to Uganda for a month with Leeds RAG and Soft Power Education, a charity which aims to improve quality of life through education. 

We will be a group of about 35 students, spending our time building classrooms in the region of Jinja, and teaching the children in our spare time.

I will pay for my own flights but the £600 I aim to raise will go entirely towards refurbishing and upgrading the schools involved in the programme, the running costs of the two pre-schools,  running the Amagezi Education Centre, continuing the work in Murchison, buying building materials and paying for Ugandan labour and staff.

The charity couldn't exist without your help and I aim to arrange some events and plan to do a sponsored something (any ideas welcome!!) to really earn your support. Watch this space!

In the meantime any small donation would be hugely appreciated - I know you are all constantly being asked for charity but if you could spare even £1 I would be so grateful!

An idea of what your money will buy out there...

    * £2.50 will buy 100 bricks
    * £5 will enable us to buy a shovel or four litres of paint
    * £10 will pay the wage of a tradesman for one week
    * £20 will provide us with six tonnes of building sand
    * £40 will buy a load (8 tonnes) of lake sand or building aggregrate.
    * £50 will buy a 1,000 litre water catchment tank
    * £100 will pay three teachers' wages at one of our preschools
    * £1,000 (well let's not be shy) will refurbish a two classroom primary school block.

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So please dig deep and donate now.... I promise I won't ask again!

For more info on SoftPower please see www.softpowereducation.com

ps - please see YouTube Video for Leeds Uganda Project's time working with Soft Power in 2005!