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Category Archives: Commuinty Education
Ugandan HIV Rates Increase
HIV has featured highly in the local and national news in Uganda this week. This comes as the Ministry of Health announced that the HIV infection rate in the country has risen to 6.7%. This equates to approximately 2.3 million … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Drop in Centre, East Africa, Education, Healthcare, HIV, Kakira, malaria
Tagged children on the street, drop in centre, East Africa, education, HIV, salve, uganda
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“Olyotia” from Jinja
Hello hello! As Ben mentioned last week, this has been an exciting week of change for the S.A.L.V.E team in Uganda. So first to introduce ourselves: We are Kerrie and Amy and you will be hearing much more from us … Continue reading
Posted in Bead project, Children, Drop in Centre, home tracing, volunteer
Tagged bead making, jinja uganda, salve international, street children, uganda, womens group
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Time for some New Years Resolutions … bring on 2012!
Firstly, for those of you reading from the UK or across the world, welcome back to work! Now the last remnants of the turkey (or nut roast) have been used in sandwiches, and the tree recycled for wood pulp, it’s … Continue reading
An illuminating blog
This blog is coming to you from a Jinja blanketed in darkness, with only the light from a few flickering candles and passing fireflies to light the way. No – it’s not a romantic night in with the S.A.L.V.E. interns, … Continue reading
Posted in Bead project, Commuinty Education, East Africa, ecomonics, fundraising
Tagged beads, electricity, fundraising, jewellery, load shedding, salve, SALVE INTernation, uganda
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A Recipe for Recycling … Ugandan style!
1. Take 15 women from Kakira village (a poor sugarcane farming area), mix well so they get to know each other (and play some silly games in the process). 2. Begin to tear up old paper into basins. Remember to … Continue reading
A New Start for Magid
Time to go home One of the older children living on the street, Magid (he changed his name to Yazid on the street, common behaviour amongst children who don’t want to be found), was taken for home tracing on Tuesday. … Continue reading
SALVE’s little workshop
Ugandan Wood A few weeks ago this very blog mentioned that SALVE’s brand new carpentry project was up and running, so maybe it’s time to catch up on what’s been happening in the SALVE workshop. The project initially started with … Continue reading
Health, hospitals, needles that break and texts that save lives …
Healthcare Alongside access to education, one of the biggest challenges facing people in Uganda is access to affordable, effective healthcare. In Uganda the government has talked of implementing a system of free healthcare, with a health centre in every district. … Continue reading
Posted in Children, East Africa, Education, Healthcare, Kakira
Tagged East Africa, none re-useable needles, salve international, uganda, ugandan healthcare
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You never know who might drop in…
We have now registered over 70 children through our Street Drop in Centre in just two short weeks of operation. It just goes to show that the number of children living on the streets despite S.A.L.V.E. and other organisations best … Continue reading
Land grabbing, tree planting and Salve GROWING!
East Africa has been making headlines all over the world recently for a variety of different reasons… The Uganda Cranes are taking on Kenya tomorrow in what promises to be a very interesting football game qualifier for the African cup … Continue reading
