We want your donation for craft materials & music instruments - Please Read...Planting for Hope Uganda is a very special charity. It has a small number of dedicated individuals who believe passionately that the only way to help poor deprived communities in Africa is to make a difference by allowing them to grow into a sustainable one. This is the goal for PfHU. Kititi is a very small deprived village just south of the equator in western Uganda. It is trying to survive and establish itself after the Rwandan war and other conflicts of recent decades. 

PfHU has began the work by establishing a Woman's Cooperative who now have learned some basic farming - pigs, goats, cassava, matooke (banana), Sweet Potato etc and have begun some craft and trades so that they can earn an income to support themselves. The charity has recently bought a school and has started to place sponsored children in lessons to help the community educate itself for the future.

Myself and my sister Lucy are going to go to Kititi in February 2016 to further the charities progress. Our aim is simple - to teach some skills that will be used as a potential to support an income or to educate. We plan to show techniques in peg loom weaving, papier mache, needlework and simple weaving, possibly spinning too! We will also work with the children with music - flute, drums, whistles, tambourines and ukulele. 

We need materials and simple musical instruments to use. Paper, glue, fabrics, card etc. We are asking for donations to help us purchase these items either here in the UK to take with us or to buy in Uganda. It is my hope we can supply the Woman with enough materials to get them started on a new enterprise and to supply the school with simple musical instruments such as tin whistles, recorders and more...

Please spare what you can and we will deliver items for you and send you photos of progress!

Best wishes for a Happy New Year.

Lionel & Lucy Cartledge