Water Harvesting Tanks protecting the CKS Primary Schools Water Supplies
Project details:
CKS need to protect the ongoing water supply for the
freshwater needs of 8,000 pupils and 400 staff and the
cooking of 17,000 hot meals every school day to feed
them.
Installation of 19, 10,000 litre capacity Water
Harvesting Tanks across the 3 CKS Primary School sites
in northern Uganda will capture rain water from the
roofs of the school buildings by means of guttering and
pipes. This will conserve the wet season rain for use
in the dry season giving a fresh water supply to the CKS
Schools and preventing further erosion of school
grounds.
Climate change is impacting northern Uganda, as it is in
the sub Saharan region subject to desertification, so it
is important to secure water from all available sources
including capture of the wet season rain. Water
Harvesting tanks are an effective and relatively cheap
way of doing this.
CKS School water bores are under pressure from over
usage and the underground water sources are drying up.
School population growth has contributed to degradation
of the school grounds and erosion of the soil is
compounded by the wet season rain. The heavy rainwater
runs off the galvanized iron roofs of the school
buildings creating deep gulleys which erodes top soil.
This is further aggravated by 8,000 pupils playing and
going about their daily business on the school grounds.
Funding required
13 Water Harvesting Tanks and associated construction is
still required. Each Water Harvesting Tank costs
£1,000. Construction including casing the plastic tanks
in protective brickwork costs £1,500 per tank. Total
cost for each tank including installation £2,500.
Total cost for 13 tanks £32,500.
Any donations, no matter how small, can help with these
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34 CKS Padibe orphan families need a cow
and grazing rights to be self sufficient
Project details:
A self-sufficiency survival kit to enable orphan,
child-headed families without any adult support to grow
their own food and husband their own livestock is
vital. The World Food Programme (WFP) food aid
programme has stopped now that peace has been agreed.
The children have been left without food or any means of
providing it for themselves.
It has been identified that, in Africa, if a family has
a milk cow it has the economic clout to survive.
 If the orphan children cannot feed themselves, at the
weekends and in the school holidays, they may end up
being trafficked or sold into slavery because of their
destitution.
CKS want the children to continue to have a CKS
education at CKS Padibe Primary School and have a
future.
For the 34 CKS Padibe orphan families re-housed on their
traditional land, seed, digging implements, chickens and
goats have already been provided by CKS Isle of Man.
Their final requirement is a cow. Some of the families
have children as young as 4 years, so a cow’s milk will
help them grow up strong and healthy.
Funding required
1 cow costs £300. For all 34 families to have a cow,
helping 102 orphans survive will cost £10,200.
Any donations, no matter how small, can
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34 Orphan family houses need Water
Harvesting Tanks to ensure a water supply
 SProject details
To capture wet season rain water to enable child headed
families to have a source of water in the dry season. It
is proposed to attach guttering leading to a 1,000 litre
Water Harvesting Tank from the roof of each of the 34
newly built two room, brick built houses for the 102 war
damaged children already re-housed by CKS, in Padibe, so
they have a fresh water supply that they do not need to
pay for.
It will also save these orphan children the strain of
carrying water back in jerry cans from water bores
sometimes a number of kilometers away. Jerry cans when
full weigh twenty-seven kilos!
Funding required
Each 1,000 litre water harvesting tank, guttering and
construction labour costs £175.
For all 34 houses to have a water supply, helping 102
orphans survive will cost £6,000.
Any donations, no matter how small, can
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Children of Orom get an education, hope
and a future
Project details
CKS want to help the children of Orom get an education,
to give them hope and a future. Orom has not had a
school since 1962. resulting in a generation of children
that are illiterate, and destitute.
CKS plan to build them a new school to cater for 1,500
children. CKS have negotiated with the Orom Elders and
now have a piece of land on which to build a school.
Why Orom? Ethnic violence in Kenya at the end of 2007
meant that the former population of Orom, who had
escaped the violence and destruction of the LRA rebel
war in northern Uganda by crossing the border to Kenya
for safety, have fled back to Uganda and returned to
their traditional lands.
To benefit from education in the CKS school the children
will need to be fed and have access to healthcare so the
school will include a kitchen to prepare breakfasts and
lunches for the children and a small clinic.
CKS have teams of trained builders to undertake all CKS
building projects including new schools. There is no
infrastructure and the first thing CKS did was drill a
water bore for the people to have clean water. The water
will also be used to build the new school.
Funding required
Building a 1,500 pupil capacity school at Orom with
kitchen and clinic will cost around £250,000. The
difficult access has meant a brick making machine will
need to be used to make all the bricks on-site rather
than buying them pre made and transporting them by
lorry. This will cost £24,000.
Any donations, no matter how small, can help with these
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Help 96 CKS Victory Centre orphan
families have enough food to eat during the one month
school holiday mid August to mid September 2010
Project details
Orphan families have not had the experience of farming,
nor the money for seeds and equipment to buy their own
food. CKS feed the 171 orphan families in their care
during school time. However, now that the World Food
Programme (WFP) food aid programme has stopped, now that
peace has been agreed, orphan children in child headed
families have been left without food or any means of
providing it for themselves during the school holidays.
Food costs have gone up significantly so other families
in the local community can no longer afford to help
orphan families have a meal. Beans are now 1,400 UGX/
kg from 800 UGX/Kg. Maize is 1,000UGX/kg from 600 UGX/kg.
Funding required
Just £20 per family, but it is needed urgently now, to
ensure they do not starve in the school holidays.
Any donations, no matter how small, can
help give these children food to survive the forthcoming
1 month school holiday. |
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Project details
CKS would like to offer rescue more child victims from
the ashes of the vicious LRA rebel war.
Sponsoring a child with CKS provides them with their
best chance of survival and a hope and a future.
Because of the war many pupils in CKS Primary Schools
are older than might be expected because the rebel war
disrupted their schooling
During school term time your sponsored child receives,
education to Primary Leaving Certificate level in a CKS
Primary School, two free hot meals a day, basic medical
care at the on-site school clinics, fresh water from the
school water bores, school uniform.
If academically able, they may transfer to a secondary
school and onwards to tertiary education which CKS pays
for. If not, CKS have two Vocational Training Schools
where the students learn more practical skills like
building, carpentry, tailoring, or business studies with
computing all vital skills to help regenerate northern
Uganda after 20 years of war.
The sponsor receives, a quarterly newsletter of CKS
activity in northern Uganda, an annual report including
recent photograph on their child’s progress, letters in
response to sponsor gifts or letter. Sponsor’s can visit
CKS in Kitgum District staying at the Victory Centre
Guest House and meet their sponsor child, their CKS
teachers and visit the child’s family in their home.
Funding required
Sponsorship costs just £ 216 per year per child.
It can be paid by standing order at £18 per month to the
Childcare Kitgum Servants bank account in Australia. |
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Help CKS maintain its support of 8,000 destitute
children with education, food, medical care, fresh water
and clothing
Irene Gleeson, CKS Founder Director, with AIDS victim
Simon Peter and some of the 5,000 pupils at the CKS
Victory Centre. Irene is on-site 9 months of the year to
ensure all projects run smoothly.
Project details
It is costing nearly twice as much in 2009 as it did in
2008 to educate and feed the 8,000 destitute children
CKS looks after in its five schools in the former war
zone of northern Uganda.
CKS educate children for 7 years of Primary School to
the Ugandan Primary Leaving Examination and have had
class sizes ranging from 80 to 132 pupils. Ugandan law
has changed so double the number of teachers is now
required, to teach the same number of children, as
maximum class sizes now are 50 pupils.
CKS feed 8,000 children and 400 staff two cooked meals a
day: a hot maize porridge for breakfast, a lunch of
beans and rice or posho a local damper bread made from
maize flour. Twice a week fish supplement the diet to
ensure calcium for healthy bones and teeth.
Food costs have gone up over 40% between 2008 and 2009
as global and local issues have pushed food prices:
Beans are now 1,400 UGX/ kg from 800 UGX/Kg. Maize is
1,000 UGX/kg from 600 UGX/kg.
Funding required
8,400 lunches a day costs £1,140
8,400 breakfasts a day cost £500
One day’s CKS school food £1,640
Food for 1 school week £8,200
Any donations, no matter how small, can help give these
children an education and 2 meals a day.
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