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| Mike with Ziwa, Moses, Ronald, and Emma on the street. |
S.A.L.V.E. International is a British-based charity working to get children off the streets of Jinja in eastern Uganda. Our
ethos is "Support And Love Via Education", and with the generous help of U.K. sponsors, S.A.L.V.E. places these
vulnerable children with foster families and puts them through boarding school.
It is tragic that in a world where so many people have so much, there are still children who are left to fend for themselves.
At very young ages these children have already had experiences that will always haunt them. But S.A.L.V.E. International brings
them hope for the future by giving them the education and stable, loving home environment they have long been deprived of.
By providing them with access to counselling and support we hope to help them to leave their difficult pasts behind them.
We want them to move forwards in life and to build a better future for themselves and for others.
But this is only half of S.A.L.V.E.'s work, as the additional money we raise from donations and fundraising goes directly
to the schools that our children attend. We want to improve educational facilities in our link schools, and whether the money
we raise goes towards providing a much needed library or building new classrooms, we hope to provide a better and more affordable
education which is accessible to all in the community.
S.A.L.V.E. wants to build a better future for the next generation, but we can not do it without your help. We want you
to get involved. With your help we can change these children's lives.
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| Helen and Nicola, the charity Trustees, with Mike, the Regional Director. |
Charity History
S.A.L.V.E. International was founded in February 2008 by two volunteer teachers working
in Jinja in eastern Uganda. The country welcomed them with open arms, but from day one it was impossible to ignore the dark
underside of this friendly nation. Children - orphaned, abandoned, and rejected - could be seen down every back street. To
the people who passed them by every day they had become invisible children; a fact of life that nothing could be done about.
But there was something that could be done. There was hope for all of these children. And so, the concept of S.A.L.V.E.
International was born, a sponsorship program that would give these street children their education, homes, and childhoods
back.
But with backgrounds as teachers, S.A.L.V.E.'s founders both wanted the charity to go further than this. During
their time working within Ugandan schools they came to learn a great deal about the country's education system and saw first
hand the desperate need to improve school facilities for children everywhere. Ugandan schools were suffering a Catch-22 crisis,
as the only way they could afford to provide the resources needed for teaching was to raise school fees, putting them out
of the reach of most pupils. It was obvious that the only solution to this was by providing outside help; if new facilities
could be funded by others, school fees would not have to be raised and an education would continue to be available to all.
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| Mike, Moses, and Ronald with Mary, the school's Director. |
Finding Mike, the Regional Director for S.A.L.V.E. International,
was a turning point for the charity. As a former street child himself, and as a counsellor with experience of working with
many different international NGOs, Mike turned the dreams of setting up the organisation into a reality. He was the perfect
person to run things on the ground for S.A.L.V.E., and since then Mike has provided the ideal link between the children and
schools in Uganda and their sponsors in the U.K.
S.A.L.V.E. International is now fully operational as a charity and
we are delighted with the results so far. We are confident that with continued support from sponsors and donors all over the
world S.A.L.V.E will to go from strength to strength. S.A.L.V.E. International wants to change the lives of hundreds of Uganda's
street children. We hope you will choose to be a part of it.
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