We are so happy and proud to announce that thanks to over 70 generous donors, we have successfully surpassed our fundraising goal! This means HCU will be able to build our first-ever youth resource center, providing vocational training, public health, and arts classes to at least 400 additional youth every year in Gulu. Our target… Continue reading Fundraising Update: WE DID IT! Let’s Keep Building Together!
We’re overjoyed with pride and gratitude to announce that we have been awarded a BONUS DAY through the GlobalGiving Accelerator! Tomorrow, Sept. 19, from 9am-11:59pm EDT, every donation made to our project through this link will be matched by 20% from funding provided by corporate sponsors. If you haven’t donated yet, this is a great… Continue reading Fundraising Update: Race for Matching Funds Starts TOMORROW!
Hope Center Uganda has grown so much this year, adding new children to our literacy program, starting a women’s health/education program, Girl Power Gulu, and partnering with local artists to provide drawing, dance, and fashion classes to our kids. However, our programming development has to be matched by fundraising development, and we are excited… Continue reading Fundraising Update: $5k in 2 Weeks. Let’s Build a Youth Center!
By Kate Culbertson: On Sunday, August 6th, HCU had its annual field day and I am so happy that I got the chance to take part. This year the team had Hope Center t-shirts made for both the kids and the staff. The t-shirts turned out great and have promoted the values of HCU throughout… Continue reading In the Classroom: Annual Field Day!
By Kate Culbertson Arriving in Entebbe Airport on July 29th was extremely exciting and quite nerve racking. I couldn’t wait to meet all the HCU kids and get the chance to work alongside the inspirational team of women making this educational vision a reality here in Gulu, Uganda. Walking into the classroom, I couldn’t fight… Continue reading In the Classroom: Mental Health
by Mary Maxton Fowler On Wednesday, July 19 we were lucky enough to visit the Boroli refugee camp, one of 18 settlements that make up Ajumani. There are 5,000 to 25,000 people in each settlement, the majority of which are South Sudanese women and children. Upon arrival, we met up with Voice For Humanity(VFH), the… Continue reading Field Report: Refugee Settlement Research
by Mary Maxton Fowler, July 14, 2017 These first two days have already shown me so much about this beautiful place and it’s beautiful people. Kevin- the best mom in Uganda- is providing her wonderful home for us to stay in and the views for the sunset are out of this world. We are completely immersed… Continue reading Intern Update: First Impressions
-by Miriam Odong. I have a child called Olinga Raymond in P.4 class. Raymond had never spoken English from the beginning of his study at Hope Center. So one Saturday, I wrote a story on the blackboard and asked each one of the pupils present to read a line. W hen it came to Raymond,… Continue reading Student Spotlight: Raymond
by Achen Joyce Date: 16 July, 2016 Summary of week events. We began normal lessons on Saturday at 2:00pm where I took over P.1 and P.2 as Miriam took over the rest of the classes and I taught on a topic called ‘’the different types of foods’’ where I told them as many foods as possible… Continue reading Intern Update: July II
by Achen Joyce Date: 4 July, 2016 Summary of the week events: Lessons began on Saturday at 2:00pm where I took over P.1 and P.2 class and taught them how to identify shapes. The students also learnt different colors like red, yellow, blue among others. By the time the lesson ended, most of them were able to… Continue reading Intern Update: July
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