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Edison Middle School raises over $1600 for Kathy’s Kindergarten
In February Edison Middle School in Wheaton, IL contacted Act4Africa after reading about Kathy’s Kindergarten on GlobalGiving. Moved with compassion for the children of rural Uganda, two students from Edison Middle School ran a Penny War fund...
09 April, 2022
Changing the Narrative! Kauma Zahara goes back to School after 3 years of Marriage
Meet Kauma Zahara, an adolescent mother who has rewritten the story and defied the odds by returning to school after marrying and having a kid. Due to cultural and domestic pressures, Kauma was compelled to marry when she was 15 years old, while stil...
21 February, 2022
Victoria breaks stereotypes, supports her family through bricklaying
Under the agonising heat and clear skies in Mayuge District, Nangobi Victoria is bespattered with mud. She scoops a pile of wet mud, throws it with a bang into a brick mould and dashes to a levelled ground to layout the brick. This is what norma...
05 November, 2021
“When the chimney smokes we send the children to school.”
Blog post by Dr Jan Webb, British GP and member of the Act4Africa Grains for Growth team. “When the chimney smokes we send the children to school.” These words, spoken to me by a Ugandan lady, puzzled me at first. I asked what she meant.......
10 March, 2021
Act4Africa Covid-19 response to children and their families.
By Jennifer Akullu, Lead Teacher, Kathy’s Kindergarten. In line with government guidelines and COVID-19 lockdown, Kathy’s Kindergarten was sadly closed for most of 2020. However, thanks to the support of our donors, our teachers have contin...
19 January, 2021
Unlocking treasures hidden in the souls of children
By Jennifer Akullu – Lead Teacher Welcome to another year at Kathy’s Kindergarten, we are super excited to have sailed through our first 2 years so well, cheers to you for your support! We have something exciting to share with you! Meet our kinde...
26 February, 2020
UK’s leading toy inventors support Kathy’s Kindergarten
By Sarah Istephan Marketing and Fundraising Manager We are enormously proud that Act4Africa were recently designated children’s charity at the 2020 UK Toy Inventors’ Dinner. Our thanks go to Suzanne Robinson at the multi-award winning toy and gam...
11 February, 2020
Teenage mums learn skills & entrepreneurship
By Patrick Kigongo – Act4Africa Country Manager Uganda Uganda’s population is both young and rapidly growing. Almost half the population is under 14 and those aged 15-24 years constitute a further 21%. The country’s ability to provide for i...
08 July, 2019
Nursing elective – first impressions
By Alice Luesley and Alice Edwards-King, University of Birmingham Nursing Students Hello, we’re Alice and Alice. We’re currently studying nursing at the University of Birmingham. We have come out to Jinja for our nursing elective! We arrived Satu...
01 July, 2019
Meet Travis, one of our first learners at Kathy’s Kindergarten
By Kathy’s Centre Head Teacher, Basil Amatre. Travis is 5 years old and is among the pioneer learners here at Kathy’s Kindergarten. He is a bright young learner and makes us feel proud of him as teachers, but another interesting factor is, he is ...
01 April, 2019
Never laugh at small beginnings….
By Patrick Kigongo – Act4Africa Country Manager Uganda Patrick Kigongo Act4Africa General Manager (Uganda), updates us on the recent progress of the HEAL groups. Members of Sekadhikwe women’s group express excitement upon receiving their Hybrid G...
01 April, 2019
Volunteering with Act4Africa
By Zohra Meghji, Act4Africa Volunteer UK Volunteer Zohra Meghji tells us why she chooses to volunteer with Act4Africa in the UK and some of the things she and her family have enjoyed doing. It’s been just over a year since I started volunteering at...
01 February, 2019
Kathy’s Kindergarten latest update!
By Basil Amatre, Head Teacher As we enter our third term at Kathy’s Centre, headteacher, Basil Amatre, feeds back on parents’ and teachers’ views on the childrens’ experiences to date. We are so proud of what we have achieved at Kathy’s Kin...
01 October, 2018
Prossy (19) reflects on what ‘International Day of the Girl Child’ means to her
By Prossy, Act4Africa Peer Educator As the world celebrates International Day of the Girl Child, I count myself lucky and at the same time privileged, that am part of the Act4Africa Grow A Girl programme, which has given me the opportunity to be in s...
01 October, 2018
Sunglasses and head torches required
By Maddy Rock, Fundraiser Taking on TrekFest is no mean feat but the challenge is simple – complete your chosen course! For Maddie Rock and her team of GeoTrekkers this meant completing the 27 miles of footpaths and bridleways in the beautiful an...
01 September, 2018
A Trip to Mayuge and Kathy’s Centre
By Sarah Read, University of Liverpool Medical Student Our medical elective students visit Mayuge– a chance to meet our kindergarten children and experience the power and struggles of a local health clinic. Apologies for the lack of updates but the...
20 July, 2018
Field Report: Adolescent Mother’s in rural Uganda
by Moris Kabunzugwire – Act4Africa Project Manager Moris Kabunzugwire, Act4Africa Team Manager in Kasese, Western Uganda, brings us his latest report on the HEAL programme currently running for adolescent mothers in the district, thanks to the ...
01 January, 2018
Kathy’s Centre Opens
By Sarah Istephan, Marketing Manager Officially opened September 2017, Kathy’s Centre is the beating heart of Act4Africa’s Ugandan operations and is the legacy of our late co-founder and early years teacher Kathy Smedley. To support Kathy’s Cen...
01 September, 2017
Girls take over in Uganda!
By Sarah Istephan, Marketing Manager Celebrating International Day of the Girl today in Uganda, Sharon, an Act4Africa Peer Educator trades places with Moris Kabunzugwire our Team Manager in Kasese, Western Uganda. Today young girls around the world s...
02 October, 2016
Kathy’s Centre construction news
By Sarah Istephan, Marketing Manager After months of fundraising efforts and meticulous planning, construction on Kathy’s Centre is finally under way! With the ground breaking ceremony taking place at the start of last month, we are pleased to repo...
19 September, 2016
A groundbreaking day for Kathy’s Centre
By Sarah Istephan, Marketing Manager Last Thursday in Uganda saw the groundbreaking ceremony for Kathy’s Centre take place, marking the eagerly anticipated beginning of construction for the health and education centre for women and children in May...
14 August, 2016
Health, Empowerment and Livelihoods in Malawi
By Sarah Istephan, Marketing Manager In April 2016, Act4Africa were delighted to receive a cheque for £5,000 from Soroptimist International Manchester to celebrate their 90thanniversary. Since then, the club have pledged a further £1,000 as part...
18 April, 2016
One of the best NGOs In Kasese
By Sarah Istephan, Marketing Manager It is with mixed feelings that we bring you news that Act4Africa’s Big Lottery funded project promoting HIV prevention and gender equality in Kasese, Western Uganda, has come to a close. It has been a challengin...
13 March, 2016
Transforming communities #SheWill
Martin Smedley, CEO The way to reduce levels of poverty, hunger and HIV, is to empower women. Unfortunately in many developing nations women are faced with societal and structural discrimination which suppresses their true potential. To change living...
02 June, 2015
HIV and the battle against misinformation
By Alexandra, Act4Africa Intern HIV/AIDS has been with us now for 33 years. And yet misinformation and lack of knowledge about the disease persist in some parts of the world, most markedly in rural or disadvantaged communities. Our intern Alexandra h...
16 September, 2014
Tea anyone?
By Martin Smedley, CEO Anna told me that Malawi is well known for tea growing and since Act4africa came to her village she has benefitted by being able to invest in new premises. Before she had 15 – 20 customers per day. Since joining an......
03 May, 2014
Power, empowerment and theatre for Development
The ‘Act’ in ‘Act4Africa’ means more than just ‘do something’ – it’s about acting, in the theatrical sense. Our intern Max Hurst has been exploring what Theatre for Development (TfD) is, and why we use it here at Act4Africa… Musimbi...
14 January, 2013
We’ve won an award!
This month saw us recognised with a USAid award for our contribution to family health via our Mayuge District-based Strides project. The Strides project, completed in 2012, was designed to help young people through improved access to sexual and repro...
14 January, 2013
Why a girl might not go to school
It is now approaching five months since 276 girls were kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Nigeria. It is nearly two years since Malala Yousafzai was shot on her way home from school in Swat, Pakistan. As we know, in some parts of the world,......
14 January, 2013