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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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The children often write to their sponsors about h

The children often write to their sponsors about helping with the animals at home, and rabbits always feature favourably, and we love reading their updates. However, sometimes we are lucky enough to see the project children's imaginations come alive as they write stories.

With that in mind, we thought that these fantastic pictures from Liz and Blessing would go very well with a story written by Kevin, who was in P7 a few years ago. We love the twist at the end!

🐰🐇 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗯𝗯𝗶𝘁 – By Kevin 🐇 🐰

Once upon a time, there was a very small and clever rabbit called Ichuli. He liked meat but he was so weak that he could not kill any animals for food and so he was always hungry.

One day, he sat down and thought of a trick. At last he knew how he could get some meat. Ichuli knew that there was a hyena that lived far away. He wanted to ask Mr Hyena to help him to get some meat.

Ichuli had to walk a long way through a very dark forest and was afraid that some animals might see him and want to eat him. He walked slowly and looked around carefully before he went across the open land.

He was very frightened. He saw many animals along the way. He wanted to catch some of them and kill them for a good meal. But he remembered that he was so small and weak that he could not kill any of those animals. He knew that Mr Hyena would help him get some very good meat to eat.
He began to hurry through the forest to Mr Hyena’s house. When he arrived there, he said, “Mr Hyena, I want to get some meat today.” They went out and Ichuli told Mr Hyena to keep listening and when he was listening Ichuli threw a stone. It hit the hyena’s head and it died and so Ichuli got some meat to eat.

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We thought we'd make you smile with this #Throwbac

We thought we'd make you smile with this #ThrowbackThursday to these guys. 🥰

Happy Thursday, we hope you are all having a wonderful week.

[[ 📷 St Paul's School, Ruckungiri 2000]]

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Celebration cakes have always been a big thing whe

Celebration cakes have always been a big thing when we’ve visited our partners in Uganda. They are beautifully made and always decorated, often covered in very thick, white icing. They have always featured heavily in events such as birthdays, graduations and weddings. And cakes have been a popular theme for the pictures received from the P4s.

As you can see, at least three children drew cakes. And not just any cakes, extravagant celebration cakes that wouldn’t look out of place at a wedding. The forth picture is actually the wedding cake of one of the young adults, previously at Komamboga Children’s Home.

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💗𝗖𝗣𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧

💗𝗖𝗣𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝕁𝕦𝕝𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝔸𝕦𝕘𝕦𝕤𝕥 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 June prayer is now live on the CPA website. Simply click #linkinbio

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These bananas were drawn by 10-year-old Shirley. B

These bananas were drawn by 10-year-old Shirley. Bananas are mainly grown by households for a mixture of food for the family, and to make money for the family. They can take 18 months to grow before they’re ready to harvest.

We love how Shirley has included a mixture of ripe, and unripened bananas. 🍌 🍌

To find out more about the School Scholarship and Family Empowerment Scheme, please check out our #LinkInBio

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It's Friday, and we're swinging into the weekend!

It's Friday, and we're swinging into the weekend!

We hope all our lovely supporters have a weekend that makes them smile.

[ 📷 #flashbackfriday to Komamboga, 2005 🥰 ]]

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11-year-old Shadia has drawn us a picture of a hen

11-year-old Shadia has drawn us a picture of a hen. 🐔

Uganda is estimated to have between 40 and 50 million chickens. Keeping chickens - like Pigs – which we talked about recently – can be a good source of food and income for families in villages like Rukungiri. Chickens and hens have in the past been very successful as part of our Gifts of Love scheme, and we often get updates from families telling us how they’re getting on. 🐣🐥🐔

To find out more about the School Scholarship and Family Empowerment Scheme, please check out the #LinkInBio

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We’ve just received some updates from our P4 chi

We’ve just received some updates from our P4 children, which were collected before Uganda went into lockdown at the beginning of June for the second time.

Every child who is part of the North Kigezi School Scholarship and Family Empowerment Scheme attends St Paul’s Community Primary School, and they love to write to their sponsors to update them on how they’re getting on at school and home.

This month, some of the P4s decided not only to send a letter for their sponsors, but also a few drawings to share with our followers. As they are all wonderful, we’ve decided to post one a week for you to look at, and we hope you love them as much as we do!

Here is a group of drawings by 10-year-old Elizabeth. We just love how she’s included all the different year groups in the picture of her school. 😊

To find out more about the School Scholarship and Family Empowerment Scheme, please check out the #LinkInBio

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Piggery projects have helped many of our families

Piggery projects have helped many of our families in the North Kigezi Diocese in Uganda to earn an income.

The families are provided with piglets, from the Gifts of Love scheme, along with training in piggery farming.

The idea is to offer strategies to families in difficulty, to enable them to create a sustainable way of living and allow them to support themselves. This gives independence and improves the standard of living in the whole community.

[ 📸 A successful Piggery project ]

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Cheers! It’s Friday! Here are some St. Paul’s

Cheers! It’s Friday! Here are some St. Paul’s children celebrating the weekend!

We mentioned water tanks earlier in the week. St Paul’s are lucky enough to have a number of them, allowing the children to have access to safe, clean water to drink. They also learn important life skills such as how to wash clothes and kitchen utensils, and even more importantly right now, their hands.

We are so grateful for the support you have given us which has allowed this to happen.

[ 📸 St Paul's School pupils, Rukungiri ]

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Over the years, thanks to the generosity of our su

Over the years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we have been able to provide many water tanks to families in Rukungiri. The water tanks can hold up to 100 litres of rainwater and are regularly included in our Gifts of Love scheme. Owning a water tank offers a family a safe and convenient way of storing rainwater, which makes cooking and washing a little easier.

[📸 A Gift of Love water tank received by a family in Rukungiri after Christmas 2020 ]

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Children who have scholarships through the North K

Children who have scholarships through the North Kigezi School Scholarship and Family Empowerment scheme come from very poor families where home life is difficult. Some families may not be able to provide their children with regular meals, adequate clothing, or a comfortable place to sleep. Without help, children would never have the opportunity to go to school.

Children on the scheme are equipped with books and resources, uniform and shoes, and regular school meals (a huge mug of porridge at break time, and a hot meal of beans and vegetables). For some these could be their only meals of the day.

Scholarship children attend St Paul’s Community Primary School in Rukungiri. Life skills, such as planting and harvesting crops, supplement the curriculum along with many extra-curricular activities, providing a good foundation for life in Uganda.

Over the years, our work with the families has empowered many to earn and save enough of their own income to pay for their children to go to Senior School. This has worked very well. So, while children progress through school, families have time to build up their own resources. But of course, it takes time!

Find out more about the scheme here ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ https://www.cpafrica.org.uk/projects/st-pauls-school/

[ 📸 Children enjoying porridge at St Paul’s School in Rukungiri.]

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🌽 🚰 Nutrition and Hydration Week 🚰 🌽

🌽 🚰 Nutrition and Hydration Week 🚰 🌽

This week kicks off Nutrition and Hydration week, an annual event aiming to highlight and promote improvements in the provision of nutrition and hydration locally, nationally, and globally.

Here at CPA, we have watched the communities on our projects grow and develop, backed by the generosity of our supporters. So, to mark this week we are going to celebrate some of the outcomes of that generosity.

[ 📸 Garden tools for families in Rukungiri, given through the Gifts of Love scheme, purchased by you. These tools enable families to grow crops to feed their families and to sell for income.]

Gifts of love cards can be ordered online and posted out or emailed to you, or directly to your friends and family. ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ https://www.cpafrica.org.uk/giftsoflove/

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🧵 Sewing Machine Day🧵 We know it seems like

🧵 Sewing Machine Day🧵

We know it seems like a bit of a tenuous link! But actually, when we saw that there was a national day to observe the sewing machine, we saw it as a chance to celebrate a machine which helps so many of the women who are part of our projects to build a career and support their families. Happy Sewing machine Day!!

[[ 📷 Mother of a child on the School Scholarship Scheme ]]

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💗𝗖𝗣𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧

💗𝗖𝗣𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝕁𝕦𝕟𝕖 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 June prayer is now live on the CPA website. #linkinbio

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