* 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…
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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PETA Compassionate School Award
* We at LUV4ALL: Uganda are absolutely thrilled that Atlas Vegan Community School has won a Compassionate School Award from TeachKind, PETA’s humane education division. Included with the award is a box brimming with free teaching materials, including Share the World empathy lessons for students and a $1,000 donation to contribute toward food and supplies. This is an absolute God-Send and we will be able…
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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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Teachers’ wages needed in time for early school closure due to Ebola lockdown
* Our hard-working teachers are dedicated to their pupils and work hard to provide them with a quality, compassionate education, even when they don’t get paid. Don’t get me wrong, they are salaried employees, but our charity is frequently – constantly – short of cash and they often have to wait longer than they should for their wage. They don’t complain, but they have to…
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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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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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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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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…
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A lick of paint
A week before the start of the new term we ran out of money. The builders downed tools and our chances of being ready by the 9th of May seemed lost. I was so stressed that I couldn’t sleep because I knew the children would be heartbroken if they couldn’t go to school when term started. But God answered my prayers. An unexpected gift from…
