THE BASIS OF OUR COOPERATION

Buyemba Suubira Uganda Foundation (BSUF) is a charitable organisation managed by and acting for the local community from the Kamuli region in south-east Uganda.

It mostly helps children, enabling them to receive an education by finding sponsors (hitherto from the United Kingdom). In 2005 BSUF started by providing support for two children; at present it helps nearly 90 of them!



It also pursues a number of projects such as adult literacy classes, jewellery-making and pig-rearing.

The inhabitants of Butansi village, like many other people in this region of the world, have to face numerous problems. The most serious of these includes AIDS, malaria, and recently water contamination, which has severe, and sometimes lethal, consequences. For many children, having two parents is an inconceivable joy, and young people are often deprived of any real prospects in life. The vast majority of the inhabitants are trapped in a vicious circle of poverty, from which they are unable to escape without some help from the outside world.

Our cooperation with BSUF dates back to the end of the year 2007, when Kacper Przyborowski met the founder and director of BSUF, Annette Mbedha, during one of the seminars at the University of Sussex. One of the results of this meeting was creation of a student society - Suubira Uganda - which was working for the benefit of BSUF by collecting funds, finding sponsors or organising cultural and informational event related to Uganda and Africa.

Kacper's visit to Butansi village, Kamuli region, Uganda, 2009 - teaching English and recognizing the needs of children in south-east Uganda

At the beginning of the year 2010, we have decided to commence cooperation with Buyemba Suubira Uganda Foundation (BSUF) by awarding an educational scholarship which allowed 13-year-old Jonathan to start education in St. Mary's College Kisubi, one of the most prestigious schools in the Uganda.

Currently, we are planning on awarding more scholarships to give young people from this impoverished, and burdened with numerous problems, part of the world a chance for a better future.

The two years long cooperation in Brighton, as well as the first joint sponsorship programme, created strong foundations, characterised by mutual understanding and trust, upon which we can now pursue our joint programme in Poland.

Thanks to this programme, everyone can now 'start helping' by supporting education of one particular child from Butansi village, and increasing his or her chances for improvement of a life situation, fulfillment of a potential and a successful realisation of dreams and aspirations.