The children at Altas Vegan Community School put on a little play based on the rhyming story “I’m not dinner!” by Violet Plum.
Urgent Appeal: Protect our school
* Our school has suffered trespass and vandalism since we opened but there has now been an attempt to poison the children’s food which is extremely frightening. Our cook caught them as they were about to pour poisonous liquid into the food and they ran away. We have informed the police and the Education Authority and they have told us we must put up a…
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Save the Kassanda wetlands and Kikumbi forest
* Our charity was featured on TV and radio news – that is BBSTV, NBSTV, Spark TV and CBS Radio – in a story urgently calling for the protection of the environment in Uganda. The speakers, including Musisi Mike from our organisation, expressed the need to protect our local environment, green spaces and wildlife habitats from foreign companies who are destroying the Kassanda wetlands and…
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Nutritious Delicious
An anonymous donor from the UK told us to buy oat mylk and soya mylk for the children with her money and we were very glad to do so. * The Head Boy and Head Girl of Atlas Vegan Community School helped their teacher mix the powdered mylk with maize flour to make a tasty and nutritious porridge for the children’s breakfast. Then, with their…
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Our Musisi Mike visits Kikumbi Children’s Home
Mike was invited to speak to the children at Kikumbi Children’s Home in Mityana District about how to go vegan and why it is so important. Vegan advocancy from Luv4all UG on Vimeo. He talked about showing love and kindness to animals and explained how to transition to plant-based eating for the sake of their own health, for the sake of the animals, and for…
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Join the Waggle Dance
Remember I told you we were collaborating with Bonobo TV Publishing to raise awareness about the plight of bees? Well here it is, at long last, the video of children from Atlas Vegan Community School performing the Waggle Dance:
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Eating and Learning at School
* * Pencils down. It’s lunch time! * * Atlas Vegan Community School – filling hungry minds and hungry bellies.
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Give bees a chance
* We are honoured to have been invited to collaborate with bonobo.tv in their vital campaign to save the bees. Without bees and other pollinators, our lives, and those of other Earthlings, would be in serious jeopardy. Pollinators such as bees, butterflies, moths, birds and bats help plants reproduce. Whilst foraging for nectar they transfer pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers.…
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Award for Atlas Vegan School from In Defense of Animals USA
* We are so grateful that In Defense of Animals awarded Atlas Vegan School with a mini-grant of $250 to help us continue with our work to make the world a better place for all to enjoy. We send our thanks to the vegan charity for their gift which we put towards this month’s running costs for Atlas school. We are completely dependent on the…
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Peta Award Enjoyed!
* The Atlas Vegan Community School’s teachers and children found cause for celebration this week when they received the TeachKind Compassionate School Award goodies from Peta. As well as the award certificate, which will be proudly mounted on the classroom wall, the children received books teaching empathy and kindness to animals. Like all children, the Atlas pupils love animals so their enthusiasm for these lessons…
