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Our aim is to help these children to escape from the cycle of poverty, despair and dependence. Sponsorships As regards sponsorships SidEcole is at present active in 8 programmes and provides assistance to over 1000 children and young people. Preference is given to basic education, which is why most of the children are at primary level; a smaller number of young people are in secondary school, vocational training and at university. Tuition fees, books, study materials, uniforms, shoes and sometimes meals are covered. |
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Uganda Slum area of Kabowa: essential help for Have Mercy Orphan School, a primary school in dire need (200 children), whose teachers are all voluntary staff. A traditional healer within the framework of collaboration founded it with MSF Theta for the prevention of Aids. (See pictures) Kuddiza – «Give when you have received»: infants and primary school (1st to 4th class) founded by two women for 200 orphans and very poor children subsidised by School against Aids/SidEcole. (See pictures) Mbuya, district of Kampala: SaA/SidEcole, in partnership with Reach Out, (who teach prevention, distribute treatment and give support to victims of HIV/Aids), for 60 children of the patients of the dispensary or orphans. SaA/SidEcole is active in this centre in providing food for these children's families who are living in a slum. (See pictures) Jinja, 80 km to the east of Kampala: SaA/SidEcole collaborates with St Moses Children Care Centre, an orphanage that cares for about one hundred children. The centre runs its own primary school, which is also open to the children from the neighbouring villages, as well as a dispensary and a weaving workshop. (See pictures)Kaliro, 120 km to the north east of Kampala: SaA/SidEcole helps three rural schools set up by the communities and which provide education for orphans. (See pictures) |
In Zambia Mkasanga: village of a population of 1700, situated to the east of Zambia, South Luangwa.The School caters for between 300 and 350 children according to the season. The principal source of income is food producing, but this area was affected by the drought of 2002, which much worsened the living conditions of the population. A student has finished his training as a medical officer; this has enabled the village to open its own community clinic, which the inhabitants of the village have built themselves. (See pictures) (This programme has come to an end in 2009) Mugurameno and Chiawa (province of Lusaka, Lower Zambezi). The schools in these two villages are in the sad situation of being on the transubsaharan road, on the frontier with Zimbabwe: hundreds of container trucks and their trailers have to wait here sometimes for several weeks at a time in order to complete customs clearance formalities, Aids is spreading in appalling proportions. (See pictures)
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Kenya Busia, on the border with Uganda, Mama Orphans cares for 110 street children, some are as young as 1 year old, and sends them to school. Her family, with the help of a few neighbours, has sold all their possessions to pay for food for the children. But due to lack of funds for regular meals the state of the children was becoming alarming, in spite of this the police and local people continued to bring in abandoned children. SaS/SidEcole is especially active in this centre in providing funds for food. (See pictures) |
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AID TO DEVELOPMENT
School against Aids/SidEcole
takes care of small construction projects such as repairs to classroom
floor, roofs, stairs, blackboards etc…. Funds are also
provided for
schemes that aim to improve hygiene and the prevention of disease,
mattresses, mosquito nets, clean water, the cost of transport to visit
the hospital for Aids testing and the purchase of a medical bag. The
association also contributes to the setting up of sewing workshops by
providing sewing machines and basic materials for arts and crafts in
order to help the older children to develop professional skills. |
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