An exciting day is coming.......

We are very pleased and excited at Uganda Development Services, as our founder, Dr John Maitland, will be interviewed and will preach at the 10.00 am service at St John’s Ealing, on Sunday 16th October. 

He will be sharing with us some of his experiences and the challenges he has faced over the past twenty years with his involvement in Uganda. There will also be a small UDS exhibition at the church.

A Little History..............

After several years working in rural Uganda with C.M.S. as a medical superintendant in Ngora hospital, Dr. John Maitland and his wife Hilary founded Uganda Development Services (UDS) with the aim of helping the poorest uplift themselves, by providing appropriate and relevant information.

After extensive research, Kamuli was chosen as a focus area for the initial project because of its high levels of poverty. The beneficiaries of our work are individuals and families who need information to help them progress in their education, or their work. The range of our work now extends to the farming communities, and the disabled.

It has the constant theme that through Sharing Knowledge, we can help people Build Lives.

 

Find out more - http://www.ugandadev.org.uk/about/history/

We would love it, if you were able to join us, and hear about all the various programmes that we are running which are sharing knowledge and building lives in rural Uganda.

 www.stjohnsealing.org.uk gives full details of their location.

If you are not familiar with St. John's - they are located at the Northfields Avenue end of Mattock Lane in Ealing. Visit their website

A Great New Idea........

I’ve always thought that the best way to get people fundraising is by them doing something that they enjoy – and the fundraising bit is just an add on.   Whether it is running marathons, holding coffee mornings or quiz nights, or going to a formal dinner .

When I was thinking about ways to fundraise for our book box scheme – my thought turned to book clubs.  It was also prompted by a friend of mine who belongs to a book club saying that she thought that her and her friends could fundraise for something when they met each month.

So our book club campaign has been born.  We are starting small – contact existing donors, friends and family that are in Book  Clubs and those local to our office in Ealing.  We hope that the idea will be successful – we estimate we need 3 clubs giving £10 a month to provide a Book Box for a secondary school in rural Uganda. 

To find out more about our work promoting literacy and giving children the tools to succeed in their academic career  – look at our website http://www.ugandadev.org.uk/what-we-do/library/book-boxes/

We will keep you posted on our progress……