By Jamie Stuart As usual, I will be donating all my birthday gifts this year to Hope Center Gulu. While I’d love to hug you all in person and receive cash donations for the Center, this year we have to make do with virtual hugs and online donations. If you’d like to show me your… Continue reading COVID-19 Relief Fundraising
We hope that this post finds all of our readers safely, and we wish everyone the best during these unpredictable and trying times. Uganda has had its first confirmed cases of COVID-19, and has shut down schools, transport, and public businesses. Therefore HCU has to pause all programming until further notice. However, our staff remain… Continue reading COVID-19 hits Uganda
Hope Center Gulu is so excited to announce the success of our free pilot program in Electronic Music Production. This is greatly thanks to our partners SABAA Education and Ableton, with additional support from private donors and music collectives such as Rise Berlin and Pangea II. The program started October 1, 2019 and will be… Continue reading SABAA Electronic Music Education Partnership Empowers Young Creatives
https://youtu.be/R-b1KJJPt9I "As part of the Berlin Economic Forum, the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy received on March 6th, Jamie Le Fanu Stuart and Kevin Okumu, founders of Hope Centre Uganda. Surprisingly, despite decades of wars, Uganda is ranked the most entrepreneurial country in the world. What explains this successful revival? The speakers provided part of the… Continue reading Grassroots Approaches to Multifaceted Development: International Forum For Sustainable Development in Africa
by Lucy Russell My mom is my hero. After going to college and majoring in microfinance, she embarked on a lifetime of humanitarian work in order to improve her close knit community. She is a fiercely independent woman with unimaginable fortitude, raising two children as a single mother under demanding circumstances. She is employed as… Continue reading Women’s Day 2019: Celebrating Ms. Anena Kevin Okumu
By Brandon Colby If you are reading this, you have a direct opportunity to help save the lives of thousands of children. My name is Brandon Colby and I’m 21 years old. I’m from a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia. After leaving high school, I left to travel the world with little… Continue reading Open Appeal for Nodding Syndrome Support
By Cameron Brening and Ashley Thomas On a field visit to Pabbo, we were fortunate enough to witness first-hand just how life changing the Uplift Program is throughout Northern Uganda. Pabbo is one of the four Uplift villages, where the next phase of the program is being implemented. The day spent in this village was… Continue reading Uplift: A Growing Success
By Cameron Brening and Ashley Thomas This past Saturday we were able to celebrate our first graduating class from HCU’s Computer Literacy Program! These students have been working hard for three months, coming to class everyday to learn computer skills that are essential in Uganda’s growing job market. The graduates familiarized themselves with basic… Continue reading Congrats Grads! First-ever Computer Literacy Class Completed
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