Malaria nets have been distributed far and wide in the small rural village of Buyaya in Eastern Uganda thanks to Julien Guizetti, who is volunteering with Meaningful Volunteer's and its Malaria Operation program.
The community lessons were held in the recently completed solar powered school.
Fair Trade Event in Coquitlam
There will be a fair trade event in Coquitlam, BC, Canada with part of the proceeds going to Meaningful Volunteer's cow project in Uganda.
Details below:
F I D D L E S T I C K S
Christmas Craft Open HouseSaturday, November 26 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
3190 Bowen Drive, Coquitlam, BC 604 941 7776 (Bev)
Bev Filmer and Debbie Boles invite you and your friends, family and neighbours to enjoy some festive hospitality.
Complete your Christmas shopping with our handmade wood crafts. Santas * Snowmen * Ornaments * Trees *
Angels Door prizes – Refreshments
Fundraising for Meaningful Volunteer – “Udder Madness”
New Solar School Announced
Meaningful Volunteer together with the School for Andy movement is delighted to announce the construction of a new solar powered school.
The organizations successfully delivered a school in Uganda in September 2011 and are keen to do it again.
The first of stage of the planning process will be to decide where to build the school. Options range from expanding the school in Uganda, to new constructions in countries as diverse as the Philippines, Nepal, Ecuador, Ghana and Thailand.
The start date of the project will be sometime in June 2012.
Further details will be released as the planning process progresses.
School For Andy in the Wisconsin State Journal
Meaningful Volunteer in conjunction with the School for Andy movement recently built a solar powered school in Ugandan as a memorial to Andy Manley who died tragically in a house explosion.
Andy was a resident of Madison Wisconsin. The Wisconsin State Journal recently ran the following article about the school
In the year since his death in a Sun Prairie home explosion, family and friends of Andy Manley have turned their grief to good works with a training academy in rural Uganda and a scholarship honoring him and his late nephew.
The School for Andy in Buyaya, Uganda, was made possible in part by donations made to memorialize Manley, a 26-year-old aspiring teacher who died a year ago Wednesday when the home he shared with two friends exploded as a result of an apparently faulty furnace installation.
Read the rest of the article.
The Malaria Operation Up and Running in Buyaya
Meaningful Volunteer's Malaria Operation is up and running in Buyaya thanks to the efforts of Julien Guizetti, a volunteer from Germany.
Check out pics below.
Classes are taking place at the School for Andy, a recently completed solar school. The school was built as a memorial to Andy Manley.
Julien personally raised over $US700 to bring mosquito nets to protect the people of Buyaya. $200 of Julien's program fees ensures even more nets are distributed.
Just handing out nets is not enough to tackle malaria. Training is also an essential part. Check out the process Julien is following here.
Help to Purchase a Cow for Uganda
Meaningful Volunteer is committed to providing children in developing countries with a quality education and know that a full stomach is vital to the children's education.
Meaningful Volunteer already has an edible school yard to help feed children at the School for Andy - a solar powered school in Eastern Uganda. But we want to do even more!
We are aiming to raise about $US500 for a hybrid cow that will provide students with milk. Our students in Uganda lack protein, so milk will be a valuable addition to their diet.
Coquitlam Adanacs get behind the project
We've had great support for this project even before it has been officially announced.
The Under-14 boys team for the Coquitlam Adanacs are doing a bottle driver on November 19th with part of the proceeds going towards the purchase of the cow. Check out their flyer here.
Get Involved
You too can get involved with fundraising for our cow. Maybe we can even get more than one! Send us an email to cow@meaningfulvolunteer.org if you're interested.
Julien Arrives in Uganda
Note: The following is taken for Julien's blog. You can keep up to date with Julien's quest to reduce malaria rates by checking out his blog here.
Mulembe,
I can already say that this experience is and will be quite exciting. Actually, I do not know where to start; I will try it in a chronological order. Also I will keep it short as the solar powered batteries at the school next to the village are critically low and my laptop will also run out of juice quite soon.
Yesterday morning I was picked up by Mary and her hired taxi at Entebbe backpackers. First of we had to drive to Kampala to buy the mosquito nets. What to say about Kampala? it is very very very crowded and traffic is a continuous jam, in the air is a smell of charcoal fire, diesel and tar. Every house entry is also a small shop and people are constantly bumping into each other while navigating through motorbikes, taxis and other cars.
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Simon Fraser Volunteer Fair
Meaningful Volunteer recently attended the Volunteer Fair at the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
This was a great chance for us to connect with university students who form the backbone of our volunteer base.
If you would like to represent Meaningful Volunteer at your local Volunteer Fair, then please contact us at fair@meaningfulvolunteer.org
Preschool Partners: New Meaningful Volunteer Program
Meaningful Volunteer in conjunction with The Good Shepherd Daycare centre is pleased to announce the launch of a new program in Uganda called Preschool Partners.
Preschool Partners aims to match preschools in Canada and elsewhere with preschools in developing countries.
Initially the Good Shepherd Daycare centre will partner a soon-to-be-created daycare that will take place in Meaningful Volunteer's recently completed solar-powered school in Uganda. The school was built as a memorial for Andy Manley who died tragically in a house explosion.
Malcolm Trevena - founder of Meaningful said, "We have already have computer literacy and our fair trade project Mama Pamba happening in the school, but the school is empty in the morning as older children are at school and adults are out farming to avoid the noon day heat
"The new Preschool Partners program is perfect as it allows us to make full use of the school throughout the day as well as giving children a critical boost before they start their schooling.
"From the census that we conducted, we learnt that practically no child under the age of 9 could even read a single letter. We hope that Preschool Partners helps to solve this problem".
Joey Albert to be involved
Preschool partners is the brainchild of Megin Alvarez - cofounder of Meaningful Volunteer, and Joey Albert.
Joey Albert is a world renowned recording artist who made a name for herself when she won the Dream Girl Filipina contest in the Philippines. Since then she has released over twenty albums to much critical success. Joey Albert is also the director of the Good Shepherd Daycare centre.
Shared Resources
The Good Shepherd Daycare centre will be sharing its resources and curriculum with the daycare in Uganda. Certain changes will be made to make it suitable for Uganda.
Volunteer Opportunities
International volunteers will have the opportunity to teach in the classes in Uganda under the supervision of Esther Nabukonda - Meaningful Volunteer's district manager.
For further enquires about this project please email us at: preschool@meaningfulvolunteer.org
Further announcements about this program will be made through this site.
Take a tour of our solar powered school
Have a look around our solar powered below.
You might also want to see how we constructed our school which is also below.
Building the school
