* 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…
VegNews features Atlas Vegan School
We are thrilled that the American online magazine, VegNews, has featured our vegan community primary school and shared what we are doing with all their readers 😀 Ultimately, the Atlas Vegan Community School wants its children to thrive, and to have a happy, healthy future. For this, the school fosters its students’ love for learning, encourages them to try new and exciting things, and gives…
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Lockdowns more feared than Ebola
Story from https://allafrica.com/stories/202211070047.html “Rising commodity prices and the overall increase in cost of living pose new risks to livelihoods that had just begun recovering from the effects of COVID-19. These and other shocks are threatening to stall socio-economic transformation, thus increasing the likelihood of the people falling deeper into poverty,” said Mukami Kariuki, World Bank Country Manager for Uganda, at the launch of the latest…
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A day in the life of our vegan school
Isn’t school great? 😀 Well, the first great thing about Atlas Vegan Community School, is breakfast! After their long walk to school of between one and six miles, our pupils’ day starts with a good vegan breakfast. This must first be prepared by our cook in the little kitchen which she’s very glad now has a roof 😀 First, her helpful son makes a fire…
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Meet Letitia
To help you understand the level of abject poverty some of our school’s pupils live in, let me introduce Letitia and her grandma. It’s 2022, much of the world lives in comparative luxury, never without basic necessities, and even home comforts taken for granted or squandered. Not so in this corner of Uganda. This kind of poverty should have been – could have been –…
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Please sir, may I have some more?
Said Oliver Twist to the porridge server, and we’re saying the same 🙂 Our school’s children need more food. As you have read in recent posts, we have got our seats and desks, we’ve got our water tank, and our kitchen has a roof – thank God. And we have a field of beans which we hope will in future supply at least some of…
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New desks!
The children in Lwamigabo village, Kassanda district, Uganda and surrounding areas have been able to attend school since May – some for the first time at ten years old – and begin learning to read and write. This is a wonderful achievement. But there is so much more to do. In August the school was closed for a month so, thanks to a generous friend,…
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Starving in Uganda
From Jeremy Rifkin’s Los Angeles Times op-ed piece, May 27, 2002: “In the past half a century, we have erected an artificial, worldwide protein ladder, with grain-fed beef and other meats on the top rung. Affluent populations, especially in Europe, North America and Japan, devour the bounty of the planet. The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grain represents a new form…
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Atlas Vegan Community School Teacher Asks for Help
He is a maths and English teacher and is pleased to tell us the children, some of whom were so deprived of education that they couldn’t even write their own names, are now making progress. But the school is still very short of text books and exercise books, and often has nothing to feed the children. The children at Atlas school have a very long…
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Back to School
So, the 9th of May arrived and Atlas was ready – well, it had met the minimum requirements demanded by the Ministry of Education, so they were able to let the kids come back to school. Whilst they were hugely relieved that they could do that, things were far from ideal. They had spent everything they had on building work, so they couldn’t afford to…
