Welcome to the African Dream Blog!

Inspired by the Combonian missionary father Enrico Colleoni, who has been working in Uganda for the past 40 years, African Dream was founded in 2006 by Vincenzo Baggio and Antonella Benigna.

The goal of our association is to help the less fortunate of Uganda and to assist those people who don't have the means to improve their own lives.
With its commitment, African Dream will raise funds directed entirely to help Uganda.

Our projects will finance activities for the improvement of the educational system, of health care and of the quality of life, especially in the most rural parts of the country.
Our objectives aim at creating better solutions for reducing poverty, famine, illnesses, illiteracy and sexual discrimination.

The first project is the a College for 300 students. We hope to finish the project by the end of 2009.

1/29/2009

Going on with the project

Dear African Dreamer,

Whilst we all fell back in our day-to-day normal life after the holidays, in Nebbi the works go on constantly. Like time passes by real fast here in Italy, in Uganda the completion of the school building is getting closer and soon there will be room for all 300 students and the complete infrastructure will become entirely functional. So, as programmed, as soon as the school is finished, the team that follows the works close by will become autonomous and become self-supporting in time. During the year 2009 we will focus on collecting funds to finish the school. Still missing are a building to house five classrooms, the fence works around the college and the purchase of a pick-up truck for the weekly food transportation from Kampala to Nebbi.

But how long will it still take exactly to finish the works?
This depends on all of us, of our capacity to spread the message and to donate.
The sooner that we will collect the final funds, the sooner African Dream will be able to concentrate on new projects. Projects that will help many people that are in deep difficulty in Uganda.

Focussing on ourselves again, here are the works in progress as you read this MAIL : - before Christmas a roof has been built over the sleeping-apartment and actually windows and steel doors are being mounted, the floor-tiles are being laid, the walls are being painted and last but not least also the beds.


-Next step: the solar panels and the independent batteries for the sleeping-apartments, the refectory, the store-rooms, the examination room, staff rooms and Father Raphael’s room.
-Following step: more centralized solar panels, connected to the public electricity network for the five auditoria and triple laboratory.

These are the things to be done still and during the course of 2009 there will be lots of possibilities for you to contribute. Soon we will communicate the first occasion.

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