Juliet’s Great Swim
Next weekend, Juliet Turnbull will be swimming for us in the Great British Swim held in Central London! The Challenge is to swim a one-mile swim in the heart of the capital http://www.greatswim.org/ The Royal Victoria Dock, venue of the British Gas Great London Swim, is situated in the East End of London near Canary [...]
Florence is one in a million
We are currently running a campaign asking supporters to sign up to Give Every Disabled Child the Right to an Education. Florence works as a campaigner with USDC our partner organisation in Uganda. Her story shows just how important an education is in making a difference to the life chances of disabled children in Africa. [...]
Smiles party success
The charity night at Boujis in South Kensington on 9th June was a massive sucess. So many lovely people came out to support us and raised £5000 on the night to support surgery for disabled children which will take place in Uganda later in the year. We have also raised over £2,500 online before and after the [...]
Triple Marathon Challenge
Unbelieveably John Thornton has pledged to go for the triple this year when he takes part in not one but three Marathon’s in support of AbleChildAfrica in 2010. John’s triple challenge starts with London which, this year, is on April 25th. After that he will be off to Edinburgh to run another marathon 4 weeks later [...]
International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day and I wanted to tell you about two remarkarkable Kenyan women who I am honoured to call my friends. Lily Oyare the Director of Little Rock Early Childhood Development Centre is a constant inspiration to me. The project she founded has so far helped more than 500 children from Kibera, [...]
Dancing on Wheels
Last night I was watching Dancing on Wheels a spin off of Strictly come dancing where a wheel-chair bound dancer is paired with someone able bodied. Some of the scenes reminded me of something I had been thinking about earlier this week when I went to visit Anne Wafula-Strike. Anne is a Kenyan born Para-olympic [...]
No prizes for guessing who will finish first?
In six weeks I will be doing the Silverstone Half Marathon for AbleChildAfrica with Anne Wafula-Strike a British Paraylmpian who grew up in Kenya and one of the world’s leading wheelchair sprinters. No prizes for guessing who will finish first! Yesterday I was on the East Africa FM Breakfast show talking with Jimmy Kabwe about [...]
Are you willing to go the extra mile?
One of our 2010 marathon runners has already gone the ‘extra-mile’ and visited Uganda in advance of the run itself! Kat Tucker, who has previously lived and worked in Uganda visited in December and ran a training session for some of the teachers working with disabled children in schools we support. The feedback from the [...]
Changing Childrens lives in Uganda
My name is Saskia and I am an advocacy volunteer with USDC, the organisation which AbleChildAfrica works with in Uganda. My work in the first few weeks involved traveling around Uganda and meeting disabled children, their families, teachers and local officials. It was an honor and a privilege to be able to do this. I [...]
A Story From Uganda
First of all a Big Thank You to everyone who has so far supported my on-line campaign. I have now raised over £3000 on-line – 6% of my target. In order to reach my target of £50,000 by 7th Janurary to ensure the continuation of AbleChildAfrica’s valuable work I need to reach a lot more [...]
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