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We will be back!

2010-05-14T16:57:00.000-07:00

The Apac School Project has been put on pause while we sort out registration details and complete some projects at CUS.

Please check back soon!

Poles: 6 more stars needed.

2010-01-04T11:14:00.001-08:00

The wood preservation is completely funded, so we now will move onto the poles!

Item needed: Poles

Total Cost: $45

Stars needed: 6 stars at $5 each. ( $15 already raised.)

I would also like to mention how the fundraising thermometers will work. I realise that they are a great way for everyone one to keep track of donations, so we will keep 2 going at a time. One for the current need(i.e pian hooks) and one for the completed project(i.e wood preservation)

When you make a donation for a star, please include a note with the name you would like to appear on your star, picture of yourself(optional), your city or country, and the color you would like your star to be. Please give two color options incase your first color is not available. You can also make a star to honor someone, and be sure to include their information.

Be a star: Wood Preservation

2010-01-02T15:07:00.000-08:00

Welcome to 2010 everyone! The biggest goal for this year is of course to build the school.

To kick things off, we have come up with a really fun fundraiser. We have been able to accomplish great things this year at the sister school, Christian Upliftment Primary School in Kampala. This includes building a washroom, purchasing land with plans of building an orphanage on it, and having many of our students sponsored! All of this was possible because of the generosity of all of you!

We want to bring the same hope to the children of Apac.

It's not about one person doing it all, it's about everyone coming together and doing what they can!

The Star Fundraiser

The children and community are patiently waiting and very excited to finally have a school to educate the children of Apac in their community.

Although you will be a superstar to the children and they would love to meet you, i'm sure it would be tough to get everyone to Apac! Instead, we will also be putting up decorative stars in honor of your donation! The stars will be handmade and each one around 7 inches, or larger ones for donations of an item in full. The star will include your name, and map of your country, as well as a photo of yourself if you would like to have one put one on your star. The stars will then be put up in the classrooms for the children to see how many people cared about them so much they wanted to be their star and bring them education!

This fundraiser will only work if everyone does what they can to help. Most stars will be $3-15 depending on the amount of people needed to purchase an item. Once we have the amount of stars needed to buy the item, I will put up the next amount of stars needed and what they are needed for. If we go beyond our goal on any day(i.e 6 stars needed and received donations for 8) the money will be put towards the next item.

So to start things off, we need four people(stars) to donate $6 for the wood preservation, which is $24.00!

To purchase a star, please make your donation of $6 on the right hand side of this blog. Send an e-mail to apacschool@hotmail.com with the name you would like on the star, your country or city, and a photo(optional)! I will send you an image of your star before they are in Uganda, and when they make it there!

Raffle!

2009-12-27T13:52:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry this is coming later than planned but I was having troubles at my dad's with the video camera(because i'm a smart enough to forget the USB cord) but anyways instead of waiting any longer I went ahead and did the raffle and photographed it. Here are the photos of the winners!

The winner for the $150 Visa card is Maia!

The winner for the $50 Walmart card is Courtney!

The winner for the $25 Chapters gift card is Courtney!

The winner for the $10 Tim Hortons gift card is Nikki!

The winner of the 2nd $10 Tim Hortons gift card is Sherri!

Countdown: 8 days left

2009-12-18T09:03:00.000-08:00

We still have 8 days until Christmas, which means another 8 days for you to buy a raffle ticket!

Raffle tickets are $2 per ticket and $5 for 3. The prizes are:

1st Prize... $150 Prepaid Visa Card
2nd Prize...$50 Walmart Gift Card
3rd Prize...$25 Chapters Gift Card
4th Prize...$10 Tim Horton Gift Card
5th Prize...$10 Tim Horton Gift Card

Not only do you have the chance to win great prizes, you are helping provide children with an education, which will allow them to have a brighter future. How amazing is that!?

We still have our gift certificates for sale. These would make great gifts as i'm sure no one on your list has had the honor of having their name in an African school before!

Happy Holidays!

Just in time for Christmas!

2009-12-06T20:41:00.001-08:00

A great way to help get the school built, is to honor someone this Christmas with a donation to The Apac School Project.

..And we happend to have made these beautiful certificates just for the occasion!

The above is a sample certificate and stretched out a bit. It says,

In honor of: ___________ 112.00 has been donated to The Apac School Project to purchase building tools to build the school. In recongnition and appreciation of this donation, your name will be added to the front entrace.

Where you purchase something off of the shopping list in full ( example $112.00 for building tools) not only will your honored one receive a certificate, their name will also be added to the school once it's built! Once that happens, they will receive an updated photo with the picture of their name, right there in the entrance of the school.

Here is the shopping list! Please note that $2 has been added to each of the origional prices to help cover the amount paypal takes from each donation. This way 100% of your donation goes to the building of the school.

50 kg of Nails: $22.00

Wood Preservation: $24.00

Labour:$ 29.00

Pian Hooks: $29.00

Poles:$45.00

Purchase of land(share):$ 52.00

Transportation of materials: $57.00

Timbers: $69.00

Building tools: $ 113.00

Building Stones: $136.00

Cement:$197.00

Doors:$337.00

Bricks:$560.00

Iron sheets:$2,517. (Share available for $100.00)

How to get a certificate? You can either have it sent to you via e-mail to be printed, or I can send you a certificate which is printed on high quality laser paper. It will also come with a special little Ugandan suprise! If you are in the Canada/USA, the deadline to have mailed to you will be Saturday the 19th.

Contact:apacschool@hotmail.com

Happy Holidays!

Raffle

2009-12-01T07:54:00.000-08:00

If you haven't already, I hope you will consider buying a raffle ticket to help get the school built!

We have two new prizes which have been added! They are two $10.oo Tim Hortons gift cards! I know you Canadians out there will put them to good use :)

So once again, here are the prizes!

1st Prize..$150 Visa Gift Card

2nd Prize..$50 Walmart Gift Card

3rd Prize..$25 Chapters Gift Card

4th Prize..$10 Tim Hortons Gift Card

5th Prize..$10 Tim Hortons Gift Card

I think the best prize of all will be getting the school built!

My letter to Apac

2009-11-23T08:18:00.000-08:00

On Hellen's last trip to Apac, she suggested that I write a letter to the community where the school will be. Let me share with you the letter as well as some photos from the occasion.

Dear, Community Members of Apac

I am very happy to be able to have the opportunity to write you this letter. Let me introduce myself. My name is Kate and I am an eighteen year old Canadian. I was very happy to get in touch with Hellen Owani and Christian Upliftment Primary School several years ago when I wanted to help a school in Uganda. Many of the children I sponsor were refugees from Northern Uganda. They shared their stories with me, and I knew that they were the lucky ones to be in Kampala. Hellen has told me about Apac and the situation of Northern Uganda, and it has since never left my mind.

Over the years that I have been helping the school in Kampala and I have realised how much even a basic education can transform a life. It is through the determination and hard work that the students of CUS have shown, that motivated me to also want to give the same opportunities to children in Apac. I know that despite the obstacles Apac children have faced and are faced with, with an education they can shine.

Building a school takes a lot of time and patience. Here in Canada, I am fundraising and letting everyone know how they can help. It is far from only being efforts on my part, there is an entire support system who are working at making the school a reality. This includes individuals from around the world who are praying, donating, and spreading awarness. My dream is that this school will be a place where children from all different backgrounds, religions, villages, and those with disabilities are always welcome. No child will be denied an education. I promise that I will keep working with you to build this great school and continue to stay when it opens.

I have a small request for the community members as well as the future students. Community members, parents and guardians, encourage your children to be at school everyday. With a good education they can become anything they want to be, doctors, lawyers, teachers, accountants, just to name a few. To the future students of the Apac School. You are the future of your community and nation. You can become great things if you work hard. Come to school everyday, respect your teacher and classmates and always try your best! If we all work together we can accomplish great things. I would be honoured if you all would like to choose and agree on a name for the future school. My heart is with you all, Kate.

Hellen and the village chief.

Many parents and guardians came along with children to learn more about the project. Men and woman alike have been so supportive(and excited) about the project! They have already arranged who will be volunteering with what. This is most definitely, 'the icing on the cake'!

Just some of the hundreds of children who turned up to register to attend school.

Christmas Raffle!

2009-11-23T07:20:00.000-08:00

Help us build the school by purchasing a raffle ticket! The cost of a ticket is $2 for one, or $5 for three. The prizes include :

1st prize....$150 Prepaid Visa Card.

2nd prize....$50 Walmart Gift Card.

3rd prize...$25 Chapters Gift Card.

Winners will be announced on Christmas (December 25th)!

To buy a ticket please use the Donate button on the right, and enter the amount according to the number of tickets you would like.

Meet the students!

2009-11-20T10:51:00.000-08:00

I would like you to meet just some of our future students. These children are registered to attend school once it opens.

Bottom row(left to right)

1)Agee Darphine is 4 years old and is not in any other school. Her favorite activites are sleeping and playing with toys. Her ambition is to be a nurse. She is a complete orphan living with neighbours. *

2)Akullu is 4 years old and is not in any other school. Her favorite activites are running and laughing. Her ambition is to be a doctor. She is a complete orphan living with siblings.*

3)Akello Rebecca is 4 years old and is not in any other school. Her favorite activities are playing with toys and running. Her ambition is to become a teacher. She is a complete orphan living with siblings.

4)Agole Monica is 4 years old and is not in any other school. Her favorite activity is to laugh. Her ambition is to become a doctor. She is a complete orphan living with relatives. *

5) Akumu Mercy is 4 years old and is not in any other school. Her favorite activity is to sleep and run. Her ambition is to become a doctor. She is a complete orphan living with siblings.

6)Okello Patric is 4 years old and is not in any other school. His favorite activity is to play with toys and to run. His ambitions it to become an engineer. He is a complete orphan living with siblings.

Top row

7) Aciro is 4 years old and is not in any other school. She did not have a favorite activity( she listed crying first because she though it meant something you do frequently) She would of liked to be a pilot. Her mother is mentally ill. *

(Sadly, Aciro has since passed away due to malnutrition.)

8) Ocen Daniel is 5 years old and is not in any other school. His favorite activity is to dance. His ambition is to become a doctor. He lives with his parents in extreme poverty.

9)Akullu Martha is 4 years old and is not in any other school. Her favorite activity is to laugh and sing. Her ambition is to become a social worker. She is a complete orphan living with neighbours.

10)Atim rita is 4 years old and is not in any other school. Her favorite activity is to dance. Her ambition is to become a doctor. She lives with her mother and siblings. *

11)Apio Elizabeth is 4 years old and is not in any other school. Her favorite activity is to run and sleep. Her ambition is to become a doctor. She lives with her parents and siblings who are unemployed. *

12) Eborng Rachel is 4 years old and is not in any other school. Her favorite activity is to play with toys and laugh. Her ambition is to be a secretary. She lives with her parents, who are both ill.

Cost of building the school

2009-11-20T09:30:00.000-08:00

Please take a look at the cost it is to build the school. The costs are for all seven classrooms but do not include classroom items.

Bricks-$558.95
Building Stones-$134.15
Building Tools-$111.79
Cement- $195.63
Doors-$335.37
Nails(50kg)-$19.56
Timbers-$67.07
Transportation-$55.89
Iron Sheets-$2515.26
Labour-$27.95
Pian Hooks-$27.95
Poles-$43.50
Water- Local Contribution
Windows-$209.60
Wood Preservation-$22.36

Total:$4,325.03

When you donate the full amount towards one of our needed items( ex $558.95 for Bricks) your name will be added to the school’s entrance!

Please help us build the school and educate the children of Apac.

Welcome!

2009-11-12T13:46:00.000-08:00

The Apac School Project, started after a local Ugandan woman by the name of Hellen Owani, traveled back to her birthplace of Northern Uganda to see the situation the children were in. After two decades of war, many children were left orphaned. The reality is, that instead of being in school studying, children are forced to look for ways to survive. Many of the children find work carrying water, making bricks, and in more dangerous fields such as prostitution.

The original plan was to build quite a large school complexe with two classes for each grade, going up to P.7. The cost of this was significantly more expensive, and as we made elaborate plans for fund-raising to begin, two little girls who were registered to attend school passed away. They died from something most of us will never have to worry or even think about, malnutrition.

This really made us re look at the school’s plans, and purpose. Since then, we have decided to build a seven classroom school and add on more classrooms later.
The seven classrooms will include:
Baby Class(for children 3-4 years old)
Middle Class(for children 5-6 years old)
Top Class(for children 7-8 years old)
Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, and Primary 4.

The Apac School Project has two main missions:

1) To build a primary school to educate the poorest children from Apac, who otherwise would not have a chance to attend school.

2) To build a vocational center, were we can educate teenagers and young adults on
income generating skills that will help them earn a decent living.