Giving Stories Blog

During Lent, acts of giving often ask for more than money. They ask for presence, tenderness, and a willingness to meet people with love. This visit to Silent Angels Autism Center carried that spirit beautifully, as St. Luke’s Church Ntinda–Naalya Cell came together in prayer and shared a message of hope with the children and staff. What stands out in this story is the recognition that these children are not defined by limitation, but seen in their dignity, joy, and God-given worth. It is also a reminder that care extends to those who show up every day to teach, nurture, and create the conditions for children to live meaningful and independent lives. This is giving that arrives with compassion and stays with humanity.

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At Gayaza High School, old girls have launched a Shs7 billion fundraising drive to expand the school chapel, with more than Shs1.4 billion already raised. Framed as Pillars of Grace, the effort is about more than bricks and a larger worship space. It reflects a community choosing to invest in the moral, spiritual, and communal life of the school, making sure the next generation inherits a place shaped by care, memory, and shared responsibility.

What makes this story land is the way alumni giving shows up as stewardship. Former students are not standing at a distance and applauding the school from memory. They are stepping in with resources and commitment to build something that will serve students and the wider school community for years to come. That is generosity with roots, purpose, and staying power.

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At Rubaare Health Centre IV, generosity is taking the shape of something concrete, lifesaving, and deeply needed. The Mama Kariisa Maternity Ward stands as a reminder that giving can move beyond ceremony and into infrastructure that changes daily reality for mothers, babies, and health workers. With a fully equipped ward and essential maternal and neonatal equipment delivered ahead of commissioning, this effort reflects what community-rooted giving can do when it is thoughtful, practical, and committed to dignity. It is not only about opening a building. It is about making safer births more possible in a place that needs them.

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A total of UGX 10,922,000 was raised to provide reusable pads for vulnerable rural schoolgirls, turning collective generosity into something practical, urgent, and deeply human. The focus now is on identifying an underprivileged secondary school in Busoga where the pads can be delivered, ensuring that this support reaches girls whose education and dignity are often disrupted by lack of access to menstrual products. What makes this story powerful is not just the amount raised, but the care behind the decision-making: thinking intentionally about where the need is greatest and how support can be distributed with fairness and purpose. This is giving that pays attention.

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There is a particular kind of generosity that returns to its source. Across several traditional schools, old students are stepping back in with money, networks, time, and practical support to restore institutions that once shaped them. From bursary schemes and classroom blocks to water systems, dormitories, internet, libraries, and fundraising drives, the story shows alumni refusing to let their schools slide quietly into decay. What stands out is not just nostalgia. It is organised giving with memory attached to it. People are not only remembering where they came from. They are choosing to make sure that place still has a future.

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In Buyende, care showed up in a practical, life-facing way. More than 500 single and teenage mothers received household essentials during a Women’s Day outreach organized through Naamala Women’s Empowerment Charity, turning public attention toward women and girls too often left to carry hardship alone. Beyond the items distributed, the effort also included skills training, scholarships for child mothers, and a health camp, making the initiative feel less like a one-day gesture and more like an attempt to widen what support can look like. It is a reminder that giving matters most when it meets people where life has already been unkind and still insists on dignity, possibility, and a better way forward. Public campaign posts tied to the outreach confirm that NWEC and Bukedde were mobilizing support for child mothers in Buyende around Women’s Day.

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More than 500 runners turned up for the fourth edition of the Run Fest Marathon to support underprivileged teenagers in Katosi, Mukono. Held on March 21, the event brought people together around a shared cause, with proceeds going toward the construction of a tertiary skilling centre that will equip disadvantaged youth with practical skills such as tailoring, hairdressing, and computer literacy. The initiative was organised by Christ Heart Church Kisasi in partnership with Vicious Woman Uganda, with organisers saying the goal is to help young people build sustainable livelihoods through skills and opportunity.

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Some giving begins with noticing. The post you shared highlights support for a woman caring for autistic children in Uganda, with help offered in food and funds at a moment when that care was deeply needed.

The closest public match I found points to Doreah Childcare Uganda, which describes its work as supporting children with growth and developmental disabilities through education, livelihood development, and community rehabilitation. A related GlobalGiving page says the organisation supports more than 170 children with disabilities, including autism.

This is what giving can look like: stepping into someone’s burden with practical support, making care a little lighter, and standing with children whose needs are too often ignored. It is quiet help, but it carries weight.

#CareThatShowsUp

Giving can look like a partnership with a clear outcome. In this story, Sylvia Jagwe Owachi, Acting Managing Director at Cairo Bank Uganda, points to 20,000 children staying in school as a real result of purpose-driven collaboration. The wider partnership message is about expanding access to education financing and growing that impact toward a shared ambition of keeping one million children in school.

It is a strong reminder that when institutions work together with intention, giving moves beyond promise and becomes measurable support in children’s lives. Education stays within reach, families gain breathing room, and more children remain where they belong: in school.

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Giving also means recognising the people whose service has shaped communities over time. From the newspaper story you shared, Rotary Club of Muyenga honoured John Mary Mpagi for outstanding community service, a reminder that long-term commitment to education, leadership, and community transformation deserves to be named and celebrated. Rotary Club of Muyenga publicly lists him as a member and past president, which supports the broader story of his Rotary service.

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Giving looked like practical support in Ntinda. This story highlights Rotary-backed efforts to strengthen women market vendors through financial literacy, budgeting, saving, investment skills, and business support. Public reporting around the same initiative also shows Rotary Club of Uptown Kampala working with women vendors in Old and New Ntinda Markets, alongside the launch of the Mkazi Community Library, a space created to expand access to learning and entrepreneurship resources for women and girls.

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You can read the article in the Southern Times February 2026 edition and see related public updates from Rotary Club of Uptown Kampala here.

#WomenWhoTradeRise

Giving took to the road for the Nile. Rotary Club of Jinja’s Run for the Nile is raising support for tree planting, community clean-ups, and conservation education aimed at protecting the Nile Basin and the communities that depend on it. Organisers said proceeds from the 2026 run will help maintain tree planting on 250 acres for at least three years, turning one event into longer-term environmental care.

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Tayari West TV joined the Safe Motherhood Run organised by Rotary Club of Mbarara under the theme “Stronger Mothers. Healthier Generations.” Funds raised through the run will support the Neonatal Unit at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, contributing to better care for mothers, newborns, and families.

This is what community giving looks like: people showing up, moving with purpose, and turning collective action into support that can save lives.

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Absa KH3–7 Hills Run returns on April 26, 2026 at Lugogo Cricket Oval, inviting runners to take on Kampala’s seven historic hills while raising funds to keep girls in school; since 2023, the run has raised Shs900m and supported over 21,900 girls, with proceeds channelled through partners such as Baylor College of Medicine’s DREAMS programme, Amref Health Africa, Windle International, World Vision, Nyaka AIDS Orphan Project, Katalemwa Cheshire Home, and Smart Girls Uganda; organisers are targeting 8,000 participants, with added incentives such as Run Your City Series slots in South Africa for top finishers who complete all seven hills and land titles for the best male and female seven-hill finishers, while partners like Pepsi support hydration on race day; Read More:

Giving is how we plant hope where it’s needed most—and this week, that hope looks like more books reaching learners who need them to dream, learn, and grow.

To every partner and supporter walking this journey with Kitabu Buk Project: thank you. Your support isn’t just a donation, it’s an investment in futures.

Will you help put one more book into one more set of hands, or share this with someone who can?

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In the misty hills of Buweri, Sironko, Uganda’s women judicial officers under the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) Uganda Chapter walked into Bukwanga Primary School with a simple, urgent mission: protect vulnerable girls and keep them learning. They listened to painful testimonies, girls pressured into early marriage, silenced by stigma around menstruation, and pushed to the edge of dropping out, then responded with practical giving that restores dignity: exercise books, snacks, and reusable sanitary towels, alongside a longer promise of bursaries and sustained support. With a school of 706 pupils (406 girls) facing major staffing shortages, this visit showed what meaningful giving looks like: not charity as pity, but justice in action, helping girls stay safe, stay in school, and grow into the leaders they are meant to be.

Read More in the paper print of NEW VISION newspaper | Wednesday 5, 2025 | Story By Moses Nampala

The 2025 Gulu City Marathon turned sport into a giving engine, drawing nearly 1,500 participants at Kaunda Grounds, where Allan Andiema defended his title (2:17:16) and winners across categories were celebrated, but the bigger win was what the race makes possible for the community. Beyond the medals, the marathon channels support into Northern Uganda’s wellbeing and future: partners hosted add-ons like a medical camp, and the marathon’s charity impact includes a UGX 10,000,000 donation to the Dero Kwan Initiative (a scholarship effort supporting vulnerable children in Acholi). In other words, every registration, sponsorship, and cheer can translate into school fees, healthier families, and pride in culture that keeps communities standing.

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Kasese’s inaugural Omusinga Birthday Run became a rallying point for giving that protects both people and heritage, a call for residents to act as peace ambassadors and to strengthen unity after recent security threats in the Rwenzori sub-region.  Beyond the race, the moment spotlighted community-led giving toward the Obusinga Bwa Rwenzururu’s renewal agenda, including plans for a one-stop cultural village and a kingdom radio station to preserve and promote identity. In this story, giving is not only money, but also choosing peace, supporting cultural institutions that create livelihoods (tourism, enterprise, education), and standing behind projects that help a community rebuild with dignity.

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Tracy Ahumuza turned personal grief into public good after losing her newborn daughter, Alyssa, in a crisis where timely colostrum and lactation support could have changed everything. That loss sparked the ATTA Breastmilk Community (founded in 2021), a nonprofit built on safe milk sharing, screening donors, preserving milk properly, and getting lifesaving donor breastmilk to premature, low-birthweight, and medically fragile babies when their mothers cannot produce enough. As demand grew, ATTA evolved from simply connecting donors and recipients to building real systems: safe transport, education for health workers, advocacy for milk banking, and even acquiring a small pasteuriser through crowdfunding despite high costs. To date, ATTA has collected and dispensed about 600 litres of donor milk to 400+ newborns, powered by donors, volunteers, and partners, proving that sometimes the smallest bags of “liquid gold” can carry the biggest hope.

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This holiday season, the Future Stars Residential Holiday Training Camp at Gayaza Junior School and Gayaza High School (7–17 December 2025) is more than a sports program, it is a chance to give young people structured opportunity when the holidays can easily become idle or risky. With training in football, basketball, netball, swimming, chess, scrabble, badminton, table tennis, and lawn tennis, plus life-shaping sessions in fitness and wellness, career guidance, mental health awareness, first aid & CPR, and safeguarding, the camp wraps talent in mentorship and protection. Giving here looks like sponsoring a participant, supporting equipment and coaching, or helping lower the UGX 400,000 barrier, so ability, not income, decides who gets to become “tomorrow’s champion.”

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