* * Pencils down. It’s lunch time! * * Atlas Vegan Community School – filling hungry minds and hungry bellies.
Seed Loans
* As part of our work to create food security and to encourage our local community to adopt plant-based diets, we loan people seeds. This enables them to grow their own healthy food and afterwards they give us back some of their new seeds so that we can lend them to someone else. * This is such a simple, low-cost idea and we are thrilled…
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“Give your body good things, don’t be a traitor”
* Go vegan! 😀
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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…
