Charity asks donors for aid
Jun 03, 2007
<br>THE director of the Organisation for Good Life of the Marginalised, Christopher Kalema, has appealed to the government and donor agencies to support non-governmental organisations.
By Donald Kiirya
THE director of the Organisation for Good Life of the Marginalised, Christopher Kalema, has appealed to the government and donor agencies to support non-governmental organisations.
He said if the Government and donors supported their projects, they would fight poverty at the grassroots.
Kalema, who was addressing journalists at the organisation’s head office on Mvule Cresent, Jinja on Tuesday, said: “We researched and realised that many youth are dying of AIDS and leave their children to their grand mothers.
“The Government is not aware of this, which led us to initiating a project of supporting grandmothers and their dependants in Buwaiswa village in Kamuli in 2006 under the Pink Butterflies Project.â€
Kalema added that the Kamuli project had one donor, an NGO in Canada, which funds it and requested other agencies to help them improve the livelihood of orphans and the people who look after them.
Kalema said his organisation supports 93 grandmothers and 469 orp-hans, who need more financial aid.
THE director of the Organisation for Good Life of the Marginalised, Christopher Kalema, has appealed to the government and donor agencies to support non-governmental organisations.
He said if the Government and donors supported their projects, they would fight poverty at the grassroots.
Kalema, who was addressing journalists at the organisation’s head office on Mvule Cresent, Jinja on Tuesday, said: “We researched and realised that many youth are dying of AIDS and leave their children to their grand mothers.
“The Government is not aware of this, which led us to initiating a project of supporting grandmothers and their dependants in Buwaiswa village in Kamuli in 2006 under the Pink Butterflies Project.â€
Kalema added that the Kamuli project had one donor, an NGO in Canada, which funds it and requested other agencies to help them improve the livelihood of orphans and the people who look after them.
Kalema said his organisation supports 93 grandmothers and 469 orp-hans, who need more financial aid.