Global Backpack Project
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Global Backpack Project does an amazing job of making a tremendous difference in the lives of so many children, with a limited amount of funding. Most of us do no not realize that for those children a uniform and school supplies may make the difference between being able to get an education or not.
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witnessing the commitment and dedication of the Global Backpack Project members.
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I'm Stephen Ssemutumba the Executive Director of Butakoola Village Association for Development(BUVAD) a community based organization operational in Kayunga District of Uganda(East Africa)
Global Back Packers Organization has helped us serve the orphaned and disadvantaged children at Bwetyaaba Primary School, in Kayunga District. Kayunga District has been least attended by international Non -profits though with acute challenges as unearthed in our baseline survey Link: http://buvad.org/app/download/1808222204/BASELINE+SURVEY+verB.pdf
GBP has been exceptional reaching out to our cause and with their support we have in the first phase been able to enable over 100 orphaned children to return to school giving them school uniforms, backpacks(school bags), scholarstic materials like exercise books, pens, geometry sets, colored pencils and dry pencils.
This is just the beginning, we are targeting 2500 children and any support extended to GBP will go directly to support these needy children in our focal area.
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I've personally experienced results of this organization in distributing;104 school uniforms to 104 unfortunate children whom were missing out on attending the government Universal Primary Education UPE at Bwetyaaba P/S, 42 of whom were girls and 62 were boys, 120 geometry sets, 1800 exercise books, 750 ink pens, 120 packets of colored pencils and 576 dry pencils. We thank the Global Back Packers USA for having made us move this far.
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I would further extend the dollar to the beneficiary area by purchasing project items from the home country. In my case Uganda.
I am from the US but live and work in Uganda. Part of my job here is acting as Organizational Capacity Builder for a local Community Development Organization here called Butakoola Village Association for Development (BUVAD). BUVAD works in central Uganda in a very neglected rural area. We made a partnership with one of the local primary schools and then with GBP.
Our experience with GBP could not be better. Our efforts are ongoing and we have recently completed the first phase of the project. Part of that first phase resulted in enabling over 100 kids to return to school. GBP are flexible, dedicated, attentive, great communicators and determined to see the project through.
GBP are worthy of any efforts that can be made in their behalf.
The Great!
I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Bwetyaba Primary School, Kayunga District, Uganda
Ways to make it better...
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
consider buying products for all programmes local to the area of implementation as much as possible.
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