Project Uganda take £12,500 to help schools!

On the 10th July 2009 the Project Uganda Team - Pauline Latham, Simon Hollingsworth, James Raynor, Ciara Nation, Amy Wicks, Fran Walker, Oli Watson, Shelley Reynolds, Becky Jepson and James Whelan - set out for Uganda at 2.30am Friday morning!

With them were the proceeds of seven months of fund raising, a staggering £12,500! The figure exceeded all expectations and is thanks to the tremendous generosity of family, friends and the people of Duffield, Allestree, Little Eaton and Derby city who supported the cake stalls and bag packing. The figure also included larger donations of cash and funds rasied from the many prizes from businesses across the country. It has been an amazing few months, culminating in this fantastic achievement.

The funds were split as follows:

£1000 to Dr Bayigga Michael P Lulume (long-time supporter of Mirembe school) for a mobile clinic
£2000 to Mirembe Secondary School (previously visited in 2007)
£9500 to Kiringo Secondary School

The largest amount was given to Kiringo as they have so little to work with. Now they have the funds to build brick class rooms and some of the buiding materials needed were purchased by the Team whilst in Uganda.

Each Project Uganda member will be writing their own accounts of the trip and these will be posted as soon as possible.

Photographs of the people, the villages, the schools and the ever present poverty have been added to the web site. Please have a look for yourself at what the team witnessed in Uganda.

Project Uganda Rocks ........

On Friday 26th June Project Uganda held its "Uganda Rocks" gig at Woodlands School at which the enthusiastic audience were entertained by five quality bands.

The evening was kick started in style by Bless'd Flap Doodle and the Hoope getting the audience on their feet and dancing.

Next on were The Stoats who kept the momentum going, their set included a memorable version of the Darkness "I believe in a thing called love". Libby and James followed their act included a soulful rendition of U2's "With or Without You".

Next on was Switzerland - Alien Ant Farm watch out these guys are good ! Last on was recently formed The Output who rocked our socks off with many popular covers, culminating with "All the small things" by Blink 182 ,the mosh pit was heaving to popular number.


The evening was co-ordinated and compared most excellently by MC Becca aka Becca Jepson and a total of £300.00 was raised for Project Uganda.









The Project Uganda would like to send out a huge thank you to to all the bands that took part and to Woodlands school for providing the venue.