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 [...]
Time to end the silence?
Last Wednesday the government of South Africa will hold the 1Goal summit calling on the world to make sure that an estimated 72 million children who don’t currently go to primary school get a chance to go to school, just like you and I did. What’s worrying about 1Goal is that it is silent about [...]
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 [...]
Evelyn Glennie lends her support to our campaign
Evelyn Glennie, an AbleChildAfrica patron and an inspiring musician and composer, has lent her support to our Ready, Willing and Able campaign which is asking that more disabled children are enabled to achieve their right to education. Evelyn believes passionately that: “All children have a contribution to the future regardless of their abilities – our [...]
World Cup Opportunity
Could the World Cup help give every disabled child the right to an education? On Wednesday 7th July – not far from the World Cup semi final (hopefully featuring England) –world leaders will gather in Cape Town to discuss the UN’s goal of giving every child the right to an education by 2015 The summit [...]
The more fun you have here…the more smiles you’ll give there….
Next month, the Smiles Party will raise funds for a surgical camp in Uganda, which will last for a week, and support at least 50 disabled children to get the surgery they desperately need. We’d love you to be part of this initiative and join the party on Wednesday, the 9th of June, 2010 at [...]
Shikuku’s Challenge
Shikuku Obosi is one of AbleChildAfrica’s Trustees. He was born in Kenya and suffered from polio as a child causing a physical disability. His disability has not stopped Shikuku from having a career in International Development. I first met him on a project visit to Kenya almost ten years ago. Since then he has worked [...]
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 [...]
Silverstone Triumph!
Anne Wafula-Strike did us proud on Sunday by completing the Silverstone Half Marathon in just 1 hour 25 mins 53 seconds. I took much longer coming in just over 3 hours (and basically walking the second half due to an unhappy calf muscle!). From the start we said that our finishing times didn’t matter but [...]
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