* * Pencils down. It’s lunch time! * * Atlas Vegan Community School – filling hungry minds and hungry bellies.
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…
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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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Children need to play
According to numerous child development experts and paediatricians, play improves the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and young people. Free play, that is play which is not controlled by adults, is particularly important for children to develop confidenceself-esteemresilienceinteraction and sharingsocial skillsindependencecuriosityand learning to cope with challenging situations Play is so important to optimal child development that it has been recognized by the…
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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…
