In the early days of our existence we received expert help in developing our first ‘shaking hands’ logo. This has served us well but we have been interested in alternatives and approached Moray College UHI – University of the Highlands and Islands. We prepared a ‘brief’ for Higher National Diploma (HND) students in Interactive Media, explaining our charitable purposes, services and ethos, before throwing down the gauntlet to the students to come up with new designs. We had a short leet of three; they were brilliant and we can use all of them for different purposes but there had to be a winner (voted on by trustees and our volunteers to Tanzania).
Jo Campbell’s winning design is based on the Tanzanian coat of arms, reflects Busega Scotland’s aim to support welfare work and incorporates the two national flags. Ingenious. The students will now use the logo in other tasks, such as creating a letterhead, business cards, poster and PowerPoint templates. The logo project has been used by the college as piece of coursework and mirrored the process followed by designers in the commercial world. A superb joint venture to the benefit of the students, college and Busega Scotland. A very big thank you to the students and their lecturer, Lynne Strachen.
Jo pictured centre front.
John and Christine enjoyed their visit to Speyside Quilters. The members were very kind in their appreciation of the talk they received and asked some interesting and searching questions. It was good that Christine had been able to show photographs of the Mayega Centre, to illustrate how the children have made impressive use of craft items previously donated by the quilters. The ladies then exhibited their own craftwork, in a ‘show and tell’ session. Ruth McIntosh, a longstanding supporter of Busega Scotland, had brought along a quilt she’d made for her granddaughter. A beautiful piece of work. Ruth then asked if her colleagues would join in a project to make and sell Busega shopping bags, from cloth brought back from Tanzania. She had plenty of volunteers! Wonderful! But this is not all. Members donated literally bags full of craft items, that will be taken to Mayega, to further enrich the lives of the children. The quilters also made a donation of £50 to Busega Scotland funds. Can you believe it, such a generous, enjoyable and impressive evening!
As well as Turning Point collecting 20 pence’s for Busega Scotland in Smartie Tubes (see the news item on 10.01.17), Youthpoint Moray have been at it as well! Youthpoint is an Aberlour Childcare Trust project in Elgin and supports vulnerable young people in the community. A Youthpoint member of staff, Cenzo Main (if you want to identify him please see the news item dated 090916 ‘Ups and downs and feel the pain’), was a mainstay of Walk Moray for Busega and his enthusiasm for Busega Scotland has certainly rubbed off on his colleagues. John collected £72.80 from the team and the Carneys will give a talk to the staff on 15th February. This is another excellent example of how generously people are willing to get behind Busega Scotland, to support vulnerable children and families in a very distant land. We hope that this website, our newsletters and talks adequately convey the difference that can be made by us all pulling together. It’s a good feeling
Chole family Support project received a boost last night courtesy of the Station Hotel Burghead.
The crowd enjoyed a heads and tails game as well as the main quiz. The prize of a bottle of Glen Moray whisky was much appreciated. The birth place of the USA First lady was a little tricky as no one left in the game got the right answer!The winning team received bottles of wine and the booby prize was chocolates. There was also a raffle. A total of £170 was raised. Thank You to all who made it happen and everyone who came along on the night.
Busega Scotland is delighted that Arnold and Valerie Barrow have returned to Tanzania. Look out for more news of their activities in the coming days. If you can’t wait for news , check out their previous activities at 
St Anne’s Parish Church, Edinburgh are old friends of Busega Scotland. The Sunday School supported the Mayega orphanage back in 2014 when the children had an outing to the Serengeti National Park. Christine was delighted to accept an invitation to their Guild Meeting on 24.1.17 and met friends old and new. An update on the Mayega Children’s Centre and the work of Busega Scotland was given. The group asked questions about the life of women and aspirations of girls. On the night Christine was presented with a cheque for £130. Once again a big thank you to St Anne’s
Busega Scotland is delighted to announce that Julieth Godwin has been appointed as Assistant Project Leader, with special responsibility for our family support projects. Julieth was previously a Busega Scotland apprentice and has been working with us on a temporary basis over the last few months. Busega Scotland trustees agreed the additional post as we foresee an increase in workload, as major projects develop and this will place additional demands on our Project Leader, Rev Deuli. We should soon be admitting new children to Mayega Children’s Centre, be employing a ‘Saturday teacher’ and working on the water supply. Christine is also keen that Julieth becomes an external counsellor to the girls at Mayega – a role that she is well prepared for through her apprenticeship. We wish Julieth well in her new post and it great to see Busega Scotland ‘growing its own staff’ so successfully
ill join our five other students there. Mazabuka and Monica have enrolled at Nyakato College, which is new for Busega Scotland. Christine and Rev Deuli visited the college and were very impressed by its organisation and facilities. There is competition for places and we were delighted when they were selected, having done very well in the entrance examination and interview.