Smile Academy Skills Training 2024
We’re sponsoring 40 more trainees at the Smile Academy in Uganda in Tailoring, Hairdressing and (for the first time) motor mechanics and driving.
June 15, 2024
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We’re sponsoring 40 more trainees at the Smile Academy in Uganda in Tailoring, Hairdressing and (for the first time) motor mechanics and driving.
Many of the South Sudanese people who fled to refugee camps in Uganda to escape the civil war in 2017 are now returning to their homes. Rations in the refugee camps have been reduced to an unstainable level and by returning home they will be supported by the Diocese of Kajo Keji.
We are raising £1,200 to fund the cost of employing a nurse at the Smile Children’s Charity Village and Academy. They look after 400 children in the school and 40 young people in the training academy.
This is Ivan. He is the deputy director of the Smile Children’s Charity Village in Uganda. When we visited in March he was cycling 15 miles each way to work through the bush on rough tracks. Thanks to some generous supporters, we have now supplied the Smile Village with a
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We raised £5000 to enable a further 25 girls from the Smile Chidren’s Charity Village to have life changing training.
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We raised £4000 to support refugees to grow vegetables as they resettle in their homes.
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We raised £5000 to enable a clinic to be set up in the Smile Children’s Charity village to save lives!
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A short, sharp emergency appeal which raised £2000 to feed those displaced by the recent Kajo Keji massacre
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We have raised over £3,900 to enable refugee families to return home to South Sudan and become self-sufficient again
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We are delighted to support this charity who help orphaned refugee children and provide them with food, water tanks and fences.
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An exciting new project to address the food shortage in the Ugandan refugee camps and equip young mothers from the diocese of Kajo-Keji with valuable skills of urban farming.
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Following the success of our bread ovens project in 2019, we want to provide a further 10 bread ovens to enable more people to make a living for their families by selling bread.
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Thanks to your help we raised £2000 towards solar panels for Kajo Keji College to enable important education to continue. This was in addition to the £2,000 raised previously for repairs.
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Seeds are the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks to your support, we have been able to provide £8,500 to help the South Sudanese have a better 2021 as they return home by providing seeds, tools and farming training.
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Thanks to your help, we raised £10,000 to help the South Sudanese refugees in Uganda, providing much needed food, soap, hand sanitisers, masks and PPE.
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We raised money to buy and deliver 57 tarpaulins to the South Sudanese refugees to provide a waterproof roof for their mud huts.
This project is now complete!
We have enabled the Mother’s Union to buy 10 bread ovens and set up community savings groups to enable the women to make a living for their families by selling the bread.