Local Students Connect with Ugandan Children
January 2017
We're all about education at EVC Uganda... including educating children in the UK.
Education has not been restricted to those only in Uganda; this month, Trustee Judi Fawcett has also been educating children in local schools. She visited Willington Lower School, and taught the children about schooling in Uganda.
Elizabeth Dun, headteacher, wrote an article in 'The Willington Villager' magazine, January 2017 edition:
"We are lucky to have Mrs Fawcett come in every Tuesday to listen to the children read. Mrs Fawcett and her husband help to run a charity 'Empowering Vulnerable Children' (EVC). The charity is based in Uganda, and in September Mr and Mrs Fawcett went out there and visited the schools and children supported by the charity. We wrote letters to a class of Ugandan children and Mrs Fawcett took the letters to hand out to them. We were most excited on her return to have received replies and photos of our new pen pals!
The link with the Ugandan school has helped us to compare life in Uganda to life in the UK. Mrs Fawcett showed us many pictures and told us about the children's school day and explained how important school was to the children."
Judi teaching the children in Uganda
Judi also gave a presentation during the morning assembly at St Gregory's Middle School in Biddenham, and left the students very inspired by her stories. There was much interest in learning more, so Judi will return to the school after half term to lead a workshop with the School Council. Hopefully this will result in fundraising opportunities in the future.
The headteacher, Frances Topa, was particularly supportive. She photographed Judi and Ted with the EVC banner and shared it on the school's Twitter account:
Today's assembly was delivered by Empowering Vulnerable Children Uganda, supporting some of the poorest children in the world #EVCUganda pic.twitter.com/cmiANVEEyP
— St Gregorys Middle (@StGregsMiddle) 23 January 2017
We would like to thank both headteachers for their support and for raising awareness about our work at EVC Uganda.