A co-operative effort by SI Warrington and the only Soroptimist club in Uganda, SI Masaka, has helped a school in the west of the country.
The Warrington club has helped Rwamurunga Community School for several years through contact with someone who visits that part of Uganda regularly. Most recently, our club secretary, Joan Spiby, co-ordinated a project to fill pencil cases with pencils, pens, rulers, erasers etc for the school. However, we then discovered our contact was unable to travel to Uganda this year. What to do?
After getting no help from official channels, airlines etc, Joan contacted SI Masaka, Uganda’s only Soroptimist club. The club was chartered in 2011.
The Masaka Soroptimists agreed to receive the parcels of pencil cases, which were sent in small batches to minimise cost and reduce the risk of loss. Three of the SI Masaka members then travelled the 200km to the school to deliver the supplies.
SI Warrington had some supplies left over and these were sent to Kenya. Kenyan Daniel Mwangi, who works with Holy Trinity Church in Warrington, acted as courier and handed them over to members of SI Warrington’s friendship link club, SI Nakuru, to go to a local children’s home.
Soroptimists really do hold hands around the world!