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School Meal Appeal
Food prices in Uganda escalated, some up by 10 times in 2011. Matoke (plantain), a staple food, has gone up from UGX 2,500 to 25,000. That’s a big increase! Especially as it was already a luxury food for the people in Kabubbu. And especially when their basic food crops are failing or their harvest will be greatly reduced.
There has been a lot of news about famine in Somalia during 2011 affecting other parts of East Africa. Kenya faced a big problem with the main refugee camp close to the Somalia border. Thousands in the UK have given millions to help. But there’s a wider problem!
Like problems caused by lack of rain in Uganda.
This last happened in November 2009.
In November 2009 the Kabubbu Orphan Choir was performing in Eastbourne, wowing a sell-out audience of 1,700 at the Congress Theatre. While the children were on stage, their guardians back home were stripping leaves off bushes and trees to boil and eat.
They had no other food.
With 1,000 pupils across both schools in Kabubbu, costs are shooting up particularly for parents who are making a small contribution to their child’s school fees to pay for their education. They have no way of contributing towards the meal that their children receive at mid-day.
The most basic meal of posho (maize flour) and beans has escalated. Six months ago, posho cost UGX 800 / kilo. Now it’s close to 3,500. A family needs 1 kilo of maize flour a day. And facing buying that with no increase in their income.
In fact, with failed crops they have little or no income at all.
We already harvest 200,000 litres of rainwater and have plans for another 100,000 litres in order to seek to provide food security.
Just £8.00 per month will feed a child a daily meal of posho and beans - with a luxury every Friday – a boiled egg!
Can you help us to feed them?
Can you help by giving up a couple of coffees and pastry at the local coffee shop – or a weekly pint at the local - every month?
Please complete and mail the donation form which you can download by clicking here. 100% of your donation will be used in full at the point of need.
