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COVID-19 LATEST UPDATE | 24th March 2020

The schools in Uganda closed on Friday 20^th March, with all children being sent home. This means that St Paul’s School in Rukungiri has closed until the crisis has passed, and the Komamboga children have all returned to their families.

In Uganda we are doing our best to support our Partners and the vulnerable children on our projects.

In Ethiopia, we continue to be in contact with Beletew Mengesha, from Voice in the Wilderness Development Organisation, to support and encourage him.

CPA is extremely concerned about the situation. To find out how we are responding to the current crisis, both in Africa and in the UK, click here to read the full letter to our supporters.

CPA is a Lincoln based charity that has worked with African partners for 23 years, supporting and encouraging children and young people in poverty, and poor communities in Africa. Our current projects include St Paul’s Nursery and Primary School in Uganda, Komamboga Children, and we have recently completed building classrooms at Komame Senior School in the Afar, Ethiopia.

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💗𝗖𝗣𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧

💗𝗖𝗣𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 October 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭💗

Dear Friends,

We hope that you and your families are keeping safe and well.
For those of you who would like to join us in a prayer for our African friends and Partners, our October prayer is now live on the CPA website. Simply click #linkinbio

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Throwing back this Thursday to 2006 when this litt

Throwing back this Thursday to 2006 when this little group of children were dancing at St Paul’s School. We wonder what they’re up to now, now that they’re all grown up!

We’re also thinking of all the current pupils and their families, who are still in lockdown, patiently waiting to be allowed back to school to continue their education with their friends.

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It's #FRIYAY, are you ask excited about the weeken

It's #FRIYAY, are you ask excited about the weekend as these guys?

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🌾 𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗬 𝗙𝗢

🌾 𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗬 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗟𝗦 🌾

More recently during the coronavirus pandemic, we have been able to provide emergency food parcels to families in both Uganda and Ethiopia. Our partners have put together a parcel that includes essential food and household items to last families for at least a month. The food items were chosen to include a good balance of carbohydrates and proteins. Each parcel costs £40 and should last a family for 4 to 6 weeks.

This photo shows washing soap in the narrow green boxes, and a Christmas treat of a bottle of pop which the children love!

To buy a food parcel click here the #linkinbio

Thank you so much to all our supporters, we couldn’t do it without you.

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💜 𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗔 💜 In Ethi

💜 𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗔 💜
In Ethiopia, we have worked with communities on projects such as clean water, seed for planting, education for girls, building nursery and sixth-form classrooms to allow boys and girls to study in their own area, and funding community training to promotes child welfare, especially for girls. We aim to stand alongside communities, sharing in their ideas and vision for the future, providing support and advice where necessary and ensuring that the process of development and change belongs to the people.

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💚 𝗞𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗢𝗚𝗔 𝗖𝗛

💚 𝗞𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗢𝗚𝗔 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗡 💚

In Kampala and beyond, the Komamboga Children’s project focusses on the care and development of children that have had a tough start in life. Children are settled in permanent foster families and school fees are paid until children complete their education. Children are supervised and the ongoing welfare of families supported.

If you would like to sponsor a child #linkinbio

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💙 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗛 𝗞𝗜𝗚𝗘𝗭𝗜

💙 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗛 𝗞𝗜𝗚𝗘𝗭𝗜 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗘𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧 💙

In Uganda, our latest project, the North Kigezi Community Empowerment Project, works with vulnerable families across the wider Rukungiri area, as well as providing 100 free scholarships for children who wouldn’t otherwise be able to go to school.

Empowerment is at the heart of the North Kigezi Empowerment Project and the main aim is to offer strategies to help families in difficulty create a sustainable way of living, allowing them to support themselves. During the pandemic, many impoverished families were brought to our attention by local churches, as needing emergency food support. Many of these families live in shocking conditions, have no land, no work, and include many children and the elderly, who are often not well. The social workers on the project hope to help them set up small projects, such as rearing chickens, pigs or goats, or growing food to sell. With training and support they hope that families will be able to earn enough sustainable income over time to be able to see their own children through school. Small savings groups have already been set up to help community members encourage each other and save a little over time.

If you would like to support this project click here #linkinbio

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💗 International Day of Charity 💗 Yesterday

💗 International Day of Charity 💗

Yesterday was #InternationalDayofCharity, and we couldn't lit it go by without thanking all our wonderful supporters, because without you, we wouldn’t be a charity.

So much has happened over the last 26 years and we’re still going strong; we have been privileged to meet, support and work alongside many people, who have found themselves in desperate circumstances.

Many of our projects are based around children and education, although over the years we have been involved in all sorts of things, so many things that there’s just way too much to tell in one, or even two posts. So, this week, we’re going to be telling you about our latest projects and hope that some of you might like to get involved.

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💌 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿

💌 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘆 💌

CPA was invited to partner with St Paul’s School in 2001, by our good friend, Ephraim Gensi. He invited us to fund 20 free scholarships for local orphan children – allowing them to attend school with no cost to their families or guardians. This was a big step for us, but we were confident that we could raise the funds, so we agreed. Now we fund over a hundred children, providing scholarships for the children and supporting the whole family.

Providing a child with a free scholarship is a wonderful way of investing into the life and future of a child and their family, giving them a good start in life.

Just £20 per month pays for resources and schoolbooks, a uniform, two meals a day, life skills and counselling and the support of a dedicated social worker for the whole family. Many sponsors choose to write letters and send greetings cards to their child too, and in return the children enjoy writing letters back to their sponsors updating them on what they’ve been up to and how they’re doing at school.

There are some children still waiting to be sponsored who we support out of our general funds. These children continue to send us their updates, and we just love reading them, and seeing how neat their writing becomes over the years. Here’s an example from one of the children who graduated from the project this summer in the top division! We’re so proud of her.

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Best. Bike. Drawing. Ever. Bikes are important in

Best. Bike. Drawing. Ever.

Bikes are important in Uganda. They are often essential for transport and are often used to transport things across towns and the city. When we visit Uganda, we love seeing what is balanced on the back of a bike; often large bunches of matoke and pineapples along with live chickens in cages. Sometimes we have seen cyclists struggling to transport huge objects like a bed or a mattress on the back. It always brings a smile!

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World Water Week is an annual event with a vision

World Water Week is an annual event with a vision to educate and change the way people engage with and value water.

One of the things we like most about working with our partners is how we continuously learn new things.

As we’ve mentioned before, we get regular updates, both from the children and the social workers, who work with the whole family. One particular update stood out to us recently.

The mother of a P4 project child told us how thankful she was for the water tank given to the family as a Gift of Love. We know how important water tanks are to families in North Kigezi – along with other communities in Uganda – after all, it means that the families drink fresh rainwater rather than dirty water which is collected from the pond

But what we hadn’t realised was that the tanks could also help families make ends meet. This mother lives in an area where water is scarce and she earns money for the family by selling spare drinking water collected in their water tank to other community members, (a jerrycan of 20 litres for the equivalent of 10 pence) - and we’re sure others do too. How, after over 25 years, had we not thought of that option?

Thank you to everyone who has given a Gift of Love. You really are making such a difference.

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Cows are a very valuable asset in Uganda. As with

Cows are a very valuable asset in Uganda. As with other livestock projects, a cow offers so much more than just milk to a family, it contributes towards income security. In terms of value, generally, 4-5 chickens will buy a goat and 5-6 goats will buy a cow.

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#MotivationalMonday We are so proud of all our p

#MotivationalMonday

We are so proud of all our project children at St Paul’s School who have completed their primary education. This year we’re extra proud, because despite missing a lot of school because of the pandemic, they have all passed their Primary Leavers exams with flying colours, which means they can all graduate to secondary school. One of the project girls even scored the highest mark in the entire school!

We are so full of joy and wish them well as they move on to secondary school.

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Happy Thursday! We thought we’d share this pictu

Happy Thursday! We thought we’d share this picture drawn for us by Timothy.

We just love this bright and happy bus! Buses like this, which are multicoloured and covered in slogans, can be seen all over Uganda. If it turned up while we were waiting at the bus stop, we’d jump aboard and see where it took us!

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🌽 🥔 🌾 Allotment Week 🌽 🥔 🌾 Over

🌽 🥔 🌾 Allotment Week 🌽 🥔 🌾

Over the last year we’ve talked a lot about the support the children and school scholarship are receiving, along with the gratitude the families felt receiving two food parcels when Uganda first went into lockdown. But what we’ve not talked about how the families have had to adapt to continue to make ends meet, often with the help of the Gifts of Love they received.

Last year, with your help, we provided over 200 garden tools, including hoes and pangas. We often offer these as a Gifts of Love option, as the families need them to be self sufficient at the best of times, but during the last year, being able to grow and harvest their own crops to eat and sell has really made a difference to the North Kigezi community.

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