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We act as a fundraising channel for former AV volunteers who are working to improve facilities within the communities and schools they previously volunteered in. Some of their worthy efforts are outlined below.
The dedication of former AV volunteers is transforming the lives of rural communities and we are committed to helping their efforts.
Currently over £200,000 has been donated towards school projects at 14 schools across Uganda thanks to the work of The Henry van Straubenzee Memorial Fund and the Ugandan Rural Schools Initiative.
The Ugandan Rural Schools Initiative was set up by AV volunteer Peter Gate in 2003 to raise money for building classroom blocks, dormitories and staff houses in poor schools in Uganda. Peter now works with Claire and Alex van Straubenzee who have set up the Henry van Straubenzee Memorial Fund in memory of their son, Henry, who died in a tragic road accident just before he was due to come to Bupadhengo as an AV in 2003. As a result of improved facitilies Bupadhengo Primary is now achieving the best exam results in the Kamuli district. For more information please see
Website - www.henryvanstraubenzeemf.org.uk
 Charles Coldman is a former AV volunteer in the isolated rural community of Kasigau , Kenya . Before he left Kasigau he promised the principal of the local primary school that he would return to give the village a better school. After graduating from Exeter University , Charles returned to Kasigau with £20,000 he had raised and began work on transforming the primary school. He subsequently founded African Promise to help develop the schools of the five villages that comprise the Kasigau community. His aim is to transform four more primary schools over the next three years for the benefit of 1,700 pupils.
Website - www.africanpromise.org.uk
Peter Fitzsimmons and Joe Zeevi have set up Dig Deep to fund bore holes and a wind pump in order to provide clean water to two communities in rural Kenya .
Website - www.digdeep.org.uk
 St Anthonys Primary School
Vicky Bayliss funded the refurbishment of classrooms as well as the building of a library at St Anthony's Primary School.
Website -
www.buildupstanthonysmalawi.co.uk
 St Anthonys Nursery School
Gina Rose built and now funds the running of St Anthony's Nursery School in Chilumpha , Malawi , which accommodates two classes of 40 children.
Website - www.thenurserymalawi.co.uk
 Chikupira Model Primary School
Tim Hughes established the Chikupira Foundation to raise funds to build two classroom blocks at Chikupira Model Primary School and has plans to help build and refurbish other schools in the district.
Website -
www.chikupirafoundation.co.uk
Chiphikira Orphan Project
Laura Hodder and Siana Hockey established the Chiphikira Orphan Project to help orphans in the villages of Chiphikira and Mlanda, funding them through schooling and helping them to establish busineses.
Website -
www.freewebs.com/chiphikira
 Lizulu Secondary School
Michelle Rowe raised funds to build a science block at Lizulu Secondary School.
 The Indian Schools Project, set up by former India AV volunteer Alex Jack in August 2008, aims to raise £5000 for classroom materials and equipment for six remote Indian primary schools in the Git Dabling valley of the Darjeeling District. Its aim is to improve the educational facilities at these under-funded government schools, which have not seen any significant investment since they were built.
Website - http://www.indianschoolsproject.co.uk
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