New Bursary Fund
We have decided to set up a bursary fund for gifted Uzima school-leavers, enabling a few of them to continue to secondary school. The fund will pay for their registration fee, school fees, and any other necessary costs, such as school uniform, materials, and maybe means of transport, such as a bicycle. We estimate the cost of this at about £15 per month per child, for a period of four school years. Supporters could either give a one-off amount to the fund, or commit to paying a regular amount (although all contributions would go into the bursary fund, rather than being linked to particular children). We would commit to awarding at least two bursaries every school year: one for a boy, one for a girl, based on their school results, but would hope to be able to fund at least one or two more, chosen by the head teacher as students who are outstanding in some way. Obviously, the more money we have, the more children we can support!
The lucky children to receive these bursaries would be asked only to report back once a year on their school experience and how their studies were going. Their reports would be photographed and circulated around supporters who had contributed.
We think this would be a great way of providing hope and motivation to children currently with few options, who will, we hope, be able to give back to their community in the future.
If you are interested in contributing to the bursary fund, please contact Viv on viv@uzimainourhands.org
Money Matters -
Making your donations go further
We are so grateful for all your generosity, but if you’ve got a minute, can you consider something? We would be able to commit to increased regular payments to the Centre, if our monthly donations increased. If you were able to consider changing your one-off giving to a regular sum instead by monthly direct debit, it would be a huge help to us, and we would know how many children we can continue to support at Uzima. At present, we are unable to send enough from our regular funds to meet Uzima’s increasing quarterly running costs, and although we have been able to send top-ups due to your faithful generosity, it would be preferable to meet the Centre’s needs more consistently.
If you would be willing to give £15 or £25 (or any amount) regularly each month by d/debit, please click below to fill in your bank details. It is nice and easy and we can also claim GiftAid too. Thank you so much.
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