CRU Trustee Roger Hand spent four days staying at Maria’s Care in March, working with Supervisor Jacky Oba monitoring the state of the buildings and the power and water supplies to the compound. Roger also met with Maria’s Care Trustees discussing projects, staffing and finance.
CRU needs to fund urgent building maintenance in the staff houses, and improvement in emergency power supplies. Power cuts are so frequent that using office equipment is very haphazard. Email communication is often disrupted. Buying new batteries for emergency power backup using ‘inverters’ is essential.
Another real ‘must have’ at the moment is a new photocopier. The last one is ‘dead’ and not worth repairing, so this is urgent for K.P.P.S. school use, as well as for the Maria’s Care office.

crack in staff house wall

A big thank you to UK Primary Schools who are raising funds for CRU and learning about Uganda at the same time. Amongst them are St. Mary’s C.E.Primary in Droylsden, Thameside and Adlington Primary School, Cheshire. Trustee and education co-ordinator Audrey Bomford has visited both schools recently and says, ‘The enthusiasm of children, staff and parents to commit themselves to ongoing support for CRU has been terrific. I have been in to all classes to teach about our work at Mara’s Care and thank them for their ideas and efforts during the last two terms. The children show a growing understanding and care for those who live in poverty and destitution in Africa and the ideas for raising money have ranged from sponsored teeth cleaning to making and selling cakes. They have helped CRU pay for the new library and new classroom furniture for the deaf children.’

New classroom furniture