At 4:00 PM Eastern, 1:00 PM Pacific Time
School Tuition Fundraising Zoom Call
We will be discussing how to maximize the Spring 2026 school year tuition drive so that Anne will have enough money to keep all the students currently enrolled with The Global Village Children’s Project in school and hopefully enough so that we can admit several other kids into the program.
The Zoom link is:
Please Join us!
Dear Friends of the Global Village Children’s Project,
If you missed our most recent “Meet with our director, Anne Muyanga” Zoom gathering yesterday, don’t despair. It is usually at least a month between our opportunities to connect with Anne, halfway around the globe in Uganda. But as an exception to that general rule we will be meeting again with her next Saturday, 11/15, at 10am, Eastern time. The reason we will be holding another meeting with Anne so soon is to focus on how best to integrate our “Fans Fundraising Fanfare” campaign with the coming season of giving.
Once a year Anne comes to the USA for her annual medical check up and to share with all of us, in person, details of our work with the young people whom the GVCP cares for in her home town of Wanyange, Uganda. This year when she arrived in September, Anne brought with her 100 beautiful hand crafted fans. Our “Fan Fundraising Fanfare” campaign is about offering these lovely fans as a “Thank You” gift for donations of $100 or more in support of our goal of raising $10,000 toward upcoming $18,200 total school tuition fees that will come due in January for the 14 young people currently sponsored by our project.
More details about this campaign can be found in the first flyer attached above. The second flyer attached there is a one pager describing briefly the mission of the GVCP. Both flyers put the reader in touch with our website, and with me, if they would like further information about all that we are seeking to achieve.
To put some wind in our sails I will mention here that already we have received a donation to pay Ella’s upcoming tuition. The story of Ella finding her way to us is detailed, along with similar bios of each of the young people in our care, in the third flyer attached above (some of the tuition fees have gone up a bit though since I put that flyer together, hence the slight discrepancy in our actual needs now, if you do the math.) Likewise, another long time supporter has committed to sponsoring Brian and Blessing for the coming winter school term. And already our fan sales have raised $900. That means the mountain we still have to climb is not quite as high as it may look at first. To be precise, we still need to raise $13,100 by mid January 2026.
If you have ideas about how to spread word of our “Fan Fanfare” campaign, or if you may have been thinking you would like to volunteer for our project, or if you simply would like to learn more about the Global Village Children’s Project, please do come to our Zoom meeting this Saturday. Keep in mind too that simply spreading the attachments above will in itself be a boost to our work, as are donations of any amount. And if you or someone you know want to obtain one of our “Thank You” fans for a donation of $100 please contact me and we will make arrangements to get one or Anne’s beautiful fans to you.
Thank you as always for your interest in our work and the kind thoughts you send our way.
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One Response
I think this is a really good opportunity to put our heads together and come up with a winning strategy. Things are only getting worse economically and we will have to work ever harder to keep these kids in school. I hope that everyone that care about getting a decent education for these kids will be on this call.