To give you an idea of what materials cost out here...
- £2.50 will buy 100 bricks like the picture to the right.
- £5 will enable us to buy a shovel or four litres of paint
- £10 will pay the wage of a tradesman for one week - Grace to the right is one of our site foremen
- £20 will provide us with six tonnes of building sand
- £40 will buy a load (8 tonnes) of lake sand or building aggregrate.
- £50 will buy a 1,000 litre water catchment tank
- £100 will pay three teachers' wages at one of our preschools
- £1,000 (well let's not be shy) will refurbish a two classroom primary school block.
Take a look at our Great Fundraising pages to see what crazy antics people get up to in the name of Soft Power. Why not hold a competition in your office to see who can buy the most number of bricks or even go all the way and challenge everyone to raise enough money to build an entire classroom block. A block like this one at Kivabuka Primary will need 24,000 bricks, 300 bags of cement....
Soft Power Education only spends money directly on the projects in Uganda: the School Refurbishment Programme; The Murchison Project; The Amagezi Education Centre and the Pre Schools. This includes pre-school staff wages, local builders wages and project costs in Uganda. Without the money the work cannot be started, let alone completed. All of the work in the UK is done by unpaid volunteers; so as little of your money as possible is wasted on administration costs and overheads - it reaches where it matters: the schools of Uganda.