Little Rock Groundbreaking Ceremony
Groundbreaking Ceremony On the 20th January 2012, Little Rock and AbleChildAfrica proudly broke ground on the building site for Little Rock’s new centre. Please join us for the celebration- view the photo album or click on the links below to watch a video of the relevant session. And it’s not too late to be a [...]
A Journey Comes to an End
by Susan Kisitu, former Chief Executive Officer of USDC I will be leaving USDC on the 31st of August 2011. By that time I would have served USDC, in various capacities, for 22 years and 8 months. My first duty station was in Luwero district where I served as Field Coordinator for 14 years, I [...]
Obituary: Sir David Aubrey Scott
David Scott was with Leana Arain and Bob Vass a founder of Uganda Society for Disabled Children (with whom we still work in Uganda) and guided it to become of major importance and change the lives of thousands of disabled children in Uganda. We were sad to hear the news of his death at the [...]
From the slopes of Kilimanjaro – Guest Blog by Fredrick Ouko
The long awaited climb came to pass and it was all systems go, lots of enthusiasm around the participating team and great support from friends and colleagues who sponsored my attempt to climb Mt.Kilimanjaro. In the run-up to the climb I was engaged in other processes that required the attention of Action Network for the [...]
Kilimanjaro Climb Launch @ Tanzanian High Commission
The Kilimanjaro climb departure draws ever nearer and on Monday Dame Evelyn Glennie, our patron and one of the intrepid climbers joined us at the Tanzanian High Commission to start the countdown in ernest. Joining Evelyn were 5 of the 11 UK-based climbers who will be attempting to climb Kilimanjaro starting on Saturday of this [...]
Meet the climbers #1 Shikuku Obosi
Meet AbleChildAfrica Trustee Shikuku Obosi who is climbing Kilimanjaro with Dame Evelyn Glennie, later this month. Together they will help a team of disabled young Africans climb to the roof of Africa. You can help him reach his £4,000 fundraising total by making a donation here online today Shikuku was born in Kenya and contracted [...]
Smiles Surgery Success
Regular visitors to this site might remember the Smiles party at Boujis nightclub which was held earlier in the year. The party was organised by a group of amazing women some of whom were able to travel to Uganda themselves and see at first hand how the funds have been used. It was a great [...]
Anne’s story: In my dreams I dance
Anne’s inspiring story about growing up as a disabled child in Africa, Western Kenya to be precise – is the kind of story everyone needs to hear – It’s about succeeding against all the odds and never ever giving up – Anne is an inspiration to everyone who knows her and now those who haven’t [...]
Dame Evelyn Glennie to climb Africa’s Highest Mountain to give young disabled people a chance
Evelyn Glennie, the first person in musical history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist, is taking on a new physical challenge to support the work of AbleChildAfrica. Evelyn, who sees her own profound deafness as a key factor in her success will attempt the ascent of Kilimanjaro in November [...]
New AbleChildAfrica Chair to take mission forward
We are pleased to announce that Steve Broach has taken over as our Chair of Trustees, succeeding Tim David. Steve was elected as Chair at last week’s trustee meetings. Steve will now lead AbleChild’s trustees in a review of the organisation’s strategy as well as driving forward our fundraising effort. Steve says: ‘I am delighted [...]
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