NEWSLETTER July 2009 Registered charity no. 1068825
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George Kyaboona visits UK from Uganda
We were delighted to host George in Wokingham. He managed a trip to Dorset to see the coastline (Uganda is land locked so this was a great experience).
He visited London and also Windsor where he managed to see the Changing of the Guard. As he is a great Arsenal fan a “must” was to visit the Emirates Stadium!

We are pleased that George will be back in London in September as he has been granted a Commonwealth Scholarship to do a Master’s Degree at Kings College University.
Contacts:
http://www.mityanacharity.org
The Secretary, 6 Tangley Drive, Wokingham, RG41 2NY
Kindly update us of any changes in your email address
Please can anyone help Eunice go to university?
Eunice is the second of John and Grace Musaasizi‘s thee children. She has done very well in her A levels and may possibly get one of the very rare government grants for fees to do a degree in Business Administration.
However she would still need another £600 per year to pay for her board and lodging at the university. Her father is the Chair of the Ugandan Committee and her mother looks after all the needs of all our 162 sponsored children.
John is an Anglican Clergyman with a large parish to care for, but as is always the case in Uganda, he has no income from the Church and relies on the generosity of his impoverished parishioners, which will not stretch to university fees. It would be great if anyone or a group of people could help out this family who work ceaselessly for others.

Mityana Orphanage and School
Saint Sebastian’s C of E Primary School has raised enough money to allow for a water supply to be provided for the orphanage school. During my visit in February I was able to get the supply connected and secured. As a school we are now raising funds to pay the bills!
This has made life much easier for the children who had to make a 40 minute journey by foot twice a day to collect water from the nearest spring. Now the children are able to concentrate on their studies more fully.
There is currently typhoid and a shortage of food at the orphanage school. / A good crop of sweet potatoes has just been harvested at Lwankuba Farm. We have a Lease on this land, and we want to make the farm profitable in order to cover the running costs of the school and a clinic on this site.
Can you help Kenneth?
Can you provide support for dear Kenneth to go to University?
He is a great chap and I wish we could help him. In particular he needs the cost of his rent. He is the boy who plays keyboard for us sometimes and has a caste in his eye. He arranges drumming workshops etc., for our young people..Benon is of course a Trustee of the Ugandan Charity, and has been involved with us ever since Derek Burden first went out there. (The oldest picture I have for our record book includes Benon with Derek.) We have helped the family before, but they are people who work unceasingly for the welfare of the people in their parish, and share what they can with the poor.
If you can help – please contact Ann Potts or any member of the Charity.
We found a prison with no cooking pan

Andy Harris, Colin Rouse and Ann went to visit Mwera Prison. Most of the prisoners were out on a “work gang” because they have to earn some money to enable the prison staff to buy maize and beans for their one meal each day. Conditions in the prisons are very bad, and we have purchased a huge cooking pot and plates for Mwera so that the prisoners can be fed more easily.
Can you run a fund-raising event for us please?
Visits
There is a group visiting Mityana in 22nd October – 1st November, and one February 16th – 22nd next year.
If you are interested in visiting Mityana then please contact us for information.

/ Hywel joins L’Etape du Tour to raise money for Mityana Charity
Hywel James, of St. John the Baptist C of E Church in Windlesham, Surrey is taking part in L’Etape du Tour to raise money for Mityana.
Every year the enthusiastic amateurs are given the chance to have a go at one of the toughest stages of that year’s Tour de France. Like the professionals they get closed roads and therefore the chance to kid themselves they are proper cyclists. This year, on Monday 20th July, they are racing what has been called the toughest stage of this year’s Tour de France, which the professionals will do as their penultimate stage on Saturday 25 July.
The stage is from Montelimar (home of the world’s finest nougat) to the summit of Mont Ventoux at over 1900m in altitude. This is a special stage for Hywel and for many British cyclists as the great British cyclist Tommy Simpson died whilst climbing the Mont Ventoux in the 1967 Tour de France.
What keeps Hywel going when the going gets tough is knowing there is a greater purpose to his endeavour and that is why he likes to do these events as a way of raising money for charity. He is particularly guided to support African charities as he has seen from previous events how seemingly small amounts raised here can have such a huge impact in Africa.
We wish him a safe ride.
Your donations are very welcome Tel: 01344 773549
Gifts for sponsored children
Many people ask what gift they can give to their sponsored child. We would like to recommend that this year people might like to buy a mosquito net as most children and families do not have them. That way we can start to educate the children into using them and thus. begin to reduce the rate of infection.
Nets are £4 and can be bought through the gift scheme on our website http://www.mityanacharity.org/Project1.html
Please state the name of your child on the order form and also tell me that you have ordered one.
Please remember that sponsorship fees are due for renewal in November. Thank you
Jean Ajin
Fund-raising
At the end of May, on one of the first hottest days of the year a group of us, (Helen, Peter and myself were the first to turn up, then Jean joined us, to be joined later by Debbie), took over the bandstand in the centre of Bracknell for the day, to sell anybodies unwanted items. "One man’s junk is another man’s jewellery" as they say.
We have discovered that the cards do not seem to do well at these events but they are successfully being sold elsewhere. After a warm, successful day we had made £168.10. Two people, who work in Bracknell, originally from Mityana, joined us for a chat which was rather nice.

Look out for a repeat performance in October! By Helen Chang