PLATFORM for the NEEDY Donates Items To 105 Children
PLATFORM for the NEEDY Donates Items To 105 Children
PLATFORM for the NEEDY (PLANE) has donated education items to needy children in Uganda to enable them access education.
55% of children 0 to 4 in Uganda live in poverty and 24% – or 1 in 5 – live in extreme poverty. 38% of children aged 6 to 17 in Uganda live in poverty and 18% live in extreme poverty.
The biggest challenges for children in Uganda include poverty, health care, low education rates, and child marriage, to name a few. These need urgent interventions to revise the situation.
The children received books, pens, pencils, soap, jelly and fees to aid them in education at a ceremony held at St.Peter and Paul Primary School Virika in Fort portal tourism city.
The support came from friends of PLANE who included 17-year-old Peato Chayarat Wangweera, his Mom Varanya Boonteang from Thailand and 16-year-old Rintaro Hirota and his family of Katsuhiko Hirota, Tokyo Japan.
These families are passionate about serving the needy children realize their full potential in education and their lives transformed.
Retired Rev.Clovis Kyalimpa Apuuli presided over the handover ceremony.
He told the children and their guardians that the best reward they can give to the donors who support them in education is to study hard, become successful and participate in the education of other needy children in their communities. Rev. Kyalimpa observed that the medicine to fighting poverty in homes is to embrace education and later support other needy people in communities. He warned the adolescents against drug abuse and bad peer groups that spoil their future but concentrate on their education so as to be successful. Rev. Kyalimpa commended PLANE Uganda for their advocacy programs, identification and responding to the plight of the needy people.
Kasabiiti Grace the chairperson PLATFORM for the NEEDY thanked PLANE Uganda Executive Director Mr. Waddell Stephen for his compassion to establish the organization and the idea to respond to the needs of the underprivileged people.
Waddell Stephen PLANE executive Director acknowledged the financial support contributed by the donors that has continued to change the lives of these needy children. He told the beneficiaries and their guardians the difficulties the donors go through in mobilizing the funds which isn’t not easy. He advised them to utilize the items properly and study hard so as to have a brighter future. #PLANEUganda#Supporttheneedy#SupportChildren#
