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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…
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Vegan Food Relief during Ebola lockdown
We are so grateful for our generous supporters who have enabled us to provide some food relief for those going hungry due to the Ebola lockdown in Uganda. Our charity does its best to help with the food relief necessitated by the Ebola lockdown. We have distributed plant-based food to needy people in the affected districts and would like to do more. If you would…
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Stop Animal Gifting Programs
MEDIA RELEASE from In Defense of Animals: Dr. Jane Goodall, Scientists and Interfaith Leaders Call on Charities To Stop Animal Gifting Programs. Posted by Lisa Levenson, 20 December 2021 LOS ANGELES (December 20, 2021) — Dr. Jane Goodall along with fellow scientists, religious leaders, and celebrities are urging world aid charities to end animal gifting. Animal gifting programs hurt gift recipients by burdening them with…
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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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Lots of lovely beans
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Early rain and beans
The rainy season usually starts in October in Uganda, and that’s when we planned to plant Atlas Vegan Community School’s food garden, but the rains started early this year. So a couple of weeks ago we decided to take advantage of that and planted 50kg of beans over half an acre. And look!!! Here come the beans to feed our children! The next thing we…
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Famine consumes Karamoja
‘’Honorable Members, the plight of our people in famine-stricken Karamoja remains a scar on the conscience of our Country. The images of starving malnourished children and reports of famine-induced deaths have left us all enervated. Therefore, I direct the Prime Minster to find sustainable solutions to stem this seasonal challenge forthwith,’’ Ms Among said. Find lasting solutions to Karamoja hunger plight, Speaker Among tells govt…
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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…
