Mobile school will benefit children in refugee camps

I love Uganda and I love Africa. This is what is driving us to convince our friends and acquaintances to donate towards making the lives of refugee children in Uganda better.
African children still face so much adversity. Our efforts to make a difference in the lives of children in Africa is part of an ongoing endeavour.
On Monday, we will be donating a mobile school with a full set of equipment; desks, chairs, blackboards and briefcases to the Ministry of Disaster Preparedness and Refugees. We chose Uganda because of the country’s exemplary role in providing safe refuge to displaced persons.

This school, which is easily assembled, has transportable technological structure with an air conditioning system. The school equipment will be used in a refugee camp to benefit children.
At the same event, I will also announce the establishment of a grant of $3,000 (Shs11m) for children and adolescents. The grant will be awarded to the best ideas to support programmes for children of African refugees, as well as humanitarian initiatives aimed at protecting the country’s ecology, in particular Lake Victoria and Murchison Falls National Park. We are just teenagers and in our small and humble way, we strive to make a difference.
Four years ago, I joined an international school in Switzerland; College Champittet, which, among other things, conducts large-scale humanitarian and educational activities.

Several times a year, our college organises trips to different countries, where we build schools for local children, teach children English, conduct workshops and master classes, and play sports with them.
It is through the school, two years ago, that I had an absolutely unforgettable trip to Tanzania, which transformed my mind completely. Together with locals, we built a school not far from the city of Arusha.
Among the locals there was a couple of advanced age and sickly. My friends and I were touched so much that we decided to help them. We fundraised and bought them a goat, so they could earn money from it to buy food.

Since then, I fell in love with Africa, thanks to a sequence of events that brought me to the continent. I have decided that charity, a socially responsible business, and the protection of human rights are what I would really like to do in the future.
After Tanzania, I announced a fundraising campaign among my friends and acquaintances for purchasing a mobile school. We partnered with the Russian-African Foundation for Science, Cultural and Economic Development that is based here in Kampala, to organise a charity event in Uganda code named ‘ Kids4Kids’.
So it is a dream come true that I am visiting Uganda. I am grateful to my parents who from an early age encouraged us to do at least one good deed every day. My parents have taken my sister and I to many countries in worldwide.

In Africa, it is not only warm air, the people are warm as well. There is a completely different rhythm of life in Africa, time does not rush at the speed of a jet plane, it flows, and people have ample time to contemplate.
Africa is one of the few places on the planet where life itself is valued much more than the quality of life.
I am also grateful to my school for training us to be responsible citizens and to the United Nations Children’s Fund for offering me internship opportunity in practical humanitarian work.