Partner Name: Weniruda

West Nile Rural Development Agency

Mission: To transform the West Nile region of Uganda into a first-world economy by channeling to the region the collective energy of talented people, best practices and other resources.

Number of People Served: 300 people served directly. Wenirdua also reached many more poeple through activities such as educational radio talk shows, performing arts and community meetings.

Director: Sunday Abiria

Location: Arua, Uganda

SHI Partnership Began: January 2012

Current Needs: Support to establish projects that raise the incomes of families of our children so that the projects become selfsustaining.

Project Overview: Despite the Uganda government’s efforts to offer free education in primary schools for every child, only a few children stay in schools because many can’t afford items such as pens, books, and uniforms due to the poverty of their family or that they are orphaned. Children who gorw up poor and ignorant are vulnerable to recruitment by groups wish to foment crime, vilonece and strife. WENIRUDA and families in North America began a grossroots effort to enable children in America to support the education of our children in Uganda. The goals of the project are to increase education access to the orphaned and vulnerable children in the West Nile region, and to promote peace within Uganda and among natians by building relationships between children in Uganda and in North America.

For more information on how you can help with this project please contact SHI at info@servinghands.org.