Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket for our Christmas Quilt Raffle. £270 
was raised for Busega Scotland. A huge thank you to Ruth for making the quilt and organising the raffle.
10.11.15 £450 in birthday gifts.
A very big thank you to all who made Christine’s birthday very special. The donations will be used to support the Moving On Project. Asante Sana!
4.11.15 Scotland’s Newest Charity
In the week before Christine and John headed off on their current trip to Tanzania, Busega Scotland received the tremendous news that our application had been accepted by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. In lay person’s terms we are now a registered charity.
Our application was approved in about a month, and without the need for any additional information or clarification. This is set against OSCR’s aim to deal with applications in ninety days – you can’t keep a good charity down! Being a registered charity brings the external scrutiny that provides donors and supporters with the confidence that we are a well run organisation. We will also now be able to claim Gift Aid on donations.
We will need to arrange celebrations in the New Year for SCIO 46101 (our charity number). Many thanks to all who made our registration possible.
29.10.15 Quiz Night Raises £566 for Moving On Project
The latest quiz night in the Drouthie Cobbler was great fun . The Africa question round had the teams scratching their heads trying to find answers. Mike our Quiz Master had to deal with some good natured heckling . We are already being asked when the next Quiz Night will be! Thank you to everyone who supported the event so generously in time and money. The funds raised will be used to provide leaving care support. We are currently exploring skills training options and colleges for the six young people who will soon be ready to leave the orphanage. Well done to the winning team ” Three Scots and an Irishman”.
15.10.15 Mayega Form Four students leave school
“One more step along the road I go”
Jane, Enosi, Dotto, George, Hassan and Geoffrey celebrated their last day at Kalemela Secondary School today. Supported by Rev Gadlord Deuli, Leah (Matron) and Peter (Patron) from Mayega Children’s Centre they joined their classmates for a farewell gathering. The young people have received support throughout their secondary education from the WAZA Project in Canada. They have provided school uniforms and school fees .
The young people will return to sit their Form Four exams in November after the national elections on 25th October. We wish them well as they continue to study and hope they will be able to do their best during the exams. They face an uncertain future but Busega Scotland’s Moving On project will continue to offer practical support and guidance.
13.10.15 Ester has glasses
Ester says thank you to Busega Scotland for her new glasses. She is happy to have them so that she can read the blackboard at Mwanza Polytechnic where she is studying to be an early years teacher. Many people in Tanzania cannot afford to buy glasses.
11.10.15 Shop Raises £1530
The charity shop has raised £1530 to support the children in Tanzania. What a fantastic result! Our best sellers were jigsaw puzzles, books and clothes. We have booked the shop for the same time next year and want to start collecting puzzles early. This gives us time to have them checked so we can sell them as complete. Please save your old jigsaws for us.
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6.10.15 Bulk Food Shop
Unloading the lorry
Busega Scotland’s project leader in Tanzania has had a busy week organising the bulk food shop and its transportation to the Children’s Centre at Mayega. Every 4 months staple foods and supplies are bought in Mwanza and then sent to the orphanage approximately 80 miles away. Buying rice, beans and maize in bulk is cost effective with lower prices in the city. Nervousness about the elections to be held on 25th October is the reason given for an increase in prices and we have had reports of some traders closing their businesses already. This shopping trip cost about £820 and was made possible by the generosity of donors. Thank you .
6.10.15 Health Education Training at Igombe
Igombe Women’s Group
The women, who form our Family Support Project in Igombe, have teamed up with medical students from St Augustine University in Mwanza to receive much needed health education training. The students gave up their time, as volunteers, during the university vacation in September to deliver the course. They used DVDs in Swahili, produced by the UK based charity Thare Machi, as the basis for wide-ranging discussions on keeping families safe from a variety of health risks.
The leader of the training, Felix Manyogote, said ‘ The trainings went on well and we were glad as we received great cooperation from the women group at Igombe. We firstly played the DVDs for them to watch and we later make some facilitation and more elaborations on the topic. At the end of the topic we then asked women some related questions to measure if they understood the topics. Good enough the women answered well the question. We also provided a chance for them to ask some questions related to the topics discussed and in relation to their health. We really received a lot of questions and tried to answer them professional in relation to health practices’.
The women are enthusiastic about continuing the course and have asked if Busega Scotland can source
material on urinary tract infections, cervical and breast cancer. We will do our best to meet this request.