Your share could raise £30
Before you go, did you know that simply by sharing this campaign, you could help it raise £30? It's an effective way to support the cause.
No thanks- Pin it
- SubscribeUnsubscribe
- Embed
awamu cic hasn't added a story.
We're cycling over 285 miles from London to Amsterdam to help mum's in the slums of Kampala create nutritious gardens to feed the vulnerable children in their care!
What are we raising money for?
Many of the children Awamu work with were born with HIV and are on ARV medication.
They must take the medicine 2-3 times a day and it must be taken with food or it will make you REALLY sick, cause a lot of pain and can cause long-term damage.
Sadly, most of these children are lucky if they get one meal a day, with their parent or guardian living on less than 0.50p a day. Typically that meal will be a bowl of maize porridge, which contains little nutritional value.
As the kids live in an urban area there is little very little space available for growing food, no good topsoil and a lot of contamination from open drains.
But awamu and the mum's they work with have a plan! They want to build raised beds with 60 families so they can learn how to grow healthy nutritious food for the kids.
They have already piloted the project with mum's like Grace (who you can see in the photo above) and it's having a huge impact on their health, education and income.
To complete the project we need to raise £5,683 to build 60 gardens. That works out at £99.35 per garden or (as there are on average 4 children household that we are targeting) just £24.83 per child.
All the money we raise from this cycle will buy soil, seeds, tools and training for 60 families and will help to feed hundreds of children like Richard (who is you can see in the picture at the top of this page) for many years to come.
So please help us lay down these roots by sponsoring us today! This is what your sponsorship will help to buy....
- £5.56 will buy a watering can for one family
- £9.26 will cover the cost of training one mum
- £23.68 will cover the cost of a garden for one child
- £48 will buy 12 tree saplings
- £94.72 will cover the cost of a garden for one family
- £278 will cover the cost of materials for building gardens for the whole project
- £500 will cover the cost of training all 60 families
- £889 will cover the cost of all the soil we will need to truck in to grow healthy, nutritious food
- £1,389 will buy all the the seed for 60 families
With Love,
Amy Huges, Elena and Dom Jiménez Busher, Sam Carrington, Stefan Goodchild, Joey Leech, Ian Wilde, Emma Scullion, Steve Willard, Kerry Bradshaw, Ryan Quinn, Jess Jackson, Christopher Marriott, Denis O'Hare, Sally Willmett, Richard Emerson, David Otridge, Beccy Evans, Michelle Owen and Kate Curtis.
* We do hope to smash our target - anything we make over our target will be used to enrol more orphaned and vulnerable into school :)
Highlights
See all activity396Activity
Delete media item?
Delete this item from the media gallery? It will also be deleted from any related story update.
Set as ?
The campaign video will appear in social media and email.
The campaign cover picture will appear in social media and email.
The will appear at the top of your campaign page and in social media and email.
Reset ?
It will be removed from the top of your campaign and won't be used as default in social media and email. The will remain in the media gallery.
Embed
Share a link
Delete update
Delete this story update?
Any pictures or videos will remain in the campaign's media gallery.
Report campaign
Report submitted
Thank you. We take reports like yours very seriously. Our goal is to keep the community safe.
Please know that we may contact you for more information, but that we won't notify you personally of our decision. If the campaign remains available within a few days, it's likely that we determined it not to be in violation of our policies.
Thank you. We've already received your previous report. If the campaign remains available within a few days, it's likely that we determined it not to be in violation of our policies.
Tell us about the problem. Please fill in both fields below.
Record a video
Upload a video
Nothing grabs attention for your cause like a personal video. Take a minute or two to record one now. Record a short video message of support. Or upload one from your device. You can preview or redo your video before you post it.
Nothing grabs attention for your cause like a personal video. Upload a short video message of support. Upload a short video message of support. Or record one right now.
- Most effective video length: about a minute.
- Maximum length: 5 min.
- You can preview or redo your video before you post it.
Heads up! The existing video will be replaced.
Email your friends
Join our team
Endorsement banner
- Endorsement banners have been proven to lead to more contributions.
- If you change your mind, you can always adjust your endorsement banner settings from the Share page.
Tell people why our cause matters to you. Your personal message will encourage others to help. Easy, effective, optional.
Say it in video
Short personal videos by supporters like you are incredibly powerful. Record one right now and you'll help us raise more money. Easy, optional, effective.
Add a personal goal
Set a personal fundraising goal. You'll encourage more contributions if you do. And rest easy. There's no obligation to achieve your goal or bad consequences if you don't. Easy, optional, effective.
We have a video!
Video thumbnail
We'd love to show you our campaign video. Want to take a look?
, you're already on the team.